Before midnight

There are almost no movies made about marriages.  There are a million a year made about the first stages of romance, often ending with a wedding.  It makes you feel like  life ends when you get married - all the dynamic, exciting adventurous parts are over and you just settle into some kind of boring identity-less humdrum life.  When a married couple is in a movie, they are usually the older parents, or the ridiculous neighbors.  The married couple is usually the butt of the joke in some way while the dashing young on-their-way-to-love are the heroes.  This is so contrary to my experience of marriage.  So when I saw this movie, Before Midnight it was like a voice inside me kept saying "Yes! Thank you!"  A wedding is the beginning... Our challenges are not boring or simple or redundant.  There are universal commonalities but so are there in early romances.  The marriage is the interesting part because it is real work.  This couple were strong individuals in a strong partnership.  They did epic things together and they had epic problems.  The stuff of their lives is so rich and complex compared to the usual romance movie.  I appreciated it so much.