Before Sunrise
PhD years are full of work and tight schedules. Just like any other day, I was keen to finish my work which involves dealing with some millions of files, with TBs of data. I decided to write a code which would run without any error. After writing and running the code in my system I went to play Badminton; it was supposed to run for long. When I came back, I realized that the code had stopped much earlier; I had forgotten to write “end” at one place in a shell script. So last night I decided to sit in the lab and see the code run to end. I checked all files to make sure there is no problem in files and checked my code many times so that this time, in one run, I could finish the work before sunrise. In between, I wanted to watch a movie suggested by a new friend. The movie is named ‘Before Sunrise’.
The movie starts with a conversation between two people in a train and when the male lead tells he is going to Vienna, I got goosebumps instantaneously. I was like damn… I went to this beautiful place recently! The clean city where even the street-walks are like riding a horse in heaven. The whole movie is basically based in Vienna. After arriving at Vienna, the actor points out the Danube River to his newly made female friend and I felt nostalgic to have seen that river with deep blue waters while taking a ride in the Ferris-wheel in Prater. The wheel is so gigantic that you can see the whole Vienna city from it.
I had gone to the banks of the Danube river with a newly met friend in Vienna. Every place they went and talked about looked familiar. I had witnessed more than was shown in the movie: Riding in tram, watching bike stunts, visiting some famous churches, famous palaces with famous histories, gardens, drinking red wine, learning some German words like ‘fernweh’, seeing birth dance, asking people to take your photos from your camera, creating memories. I kept on feeling nostalgic time and again, with every scene stirring different emotions within me. It was also shown in the movie how people over there smoked cigarettes in public places, drank beer instead of water while having food, and kissed publicly. I too witnessed all this. The only place I didn’t go to was the club; I didn’t have enough money and my landlord was gracious enough to offer free drinks in ample amount. If you ask people about what is exciting there they suggest you to watch a play. In the movie also some people suggest the lead roles to watch a play named “Bring me the horns of Wilmington’s cow”. The play involves Indian people searching for a cow, in addition to many other characters. Goosebumps again!
The most interesting thought projected in the movie is its message to live the moment and not worry about far future. “They spoil every romance [be it with a person or with a place] by trying to make it last forever” a line written by Oscar Wilde, about people, sums it up in the best way. Nonetheless, realities of life are often different than what is portrayed in movies. At the end of the day, we all have to think and act in an adult rational way and not by telling stories in a pseudo-intellectual way to impress people like people do nowadays. It’s a movie whose story is planned by a wise man and there is life, uncertain, unplanned, not written anywhere. Just to live and learn. Nothing is fixed in life and there are not just fixed ways to live it.
After watching the movie I would say this about Vienna and the movie: A place to visit many times, likewise a movie to watch many times. Meanwhile, I once again got an error in the code, a file was missing this time.
