From ‘Meet Cute’ to happy ending: love in Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy
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Love. Encounter. Linklater. Badiou. Before trilogy.Abstract
This article explores Alain Badiou’s (2013) ideas about love – the romantic chance encounter, the subsequent declaration of love as a commitment to construct something that endures and outlasts chance, and love as a truth-constructing procedure – in relation to Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Elements such as long shots, point-of-view and glance/object editing, and dual focus narrative are storytelling devices used in the trilogy to tell a love story from meet cute to happy ending and beyond, towards endurance and eternity.
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