Jemimah Kennedy Rochester

this might have been the most amazing film I have ever watched. i know I say this after consuming any form of somewhat edgy cinematic media, but this was just spectacular. the writing, the camera angles, the fact that nothing happened and everything happened and oh my god I feel like I'm going to throw up. I literally finished it 4 minutes ago and am still in awe, I don't know how to describe this but I think I finally believe in life and love and death and fate and everything in between and maybe I'm not as lost as I thought I was. watching Jesse and Celine meet only due to the quarrels of an older couple, and then being able to watch them coexist and find each other and argue and kiss and laugh and fall in love and they are so beautiful. as a cynical teenage girl who often feels stuck between the philosophy that either love is a social construct made to convince you to buy hallmark valentines day cards for a guy that only likes the idea of you, but also living with the ideology that maybe just maybe we were created for the mere purpose that is to find our person, and to fall in love and to be loved. While its maybe preposterous this movie is making me believe the latter. We were made to love. Celine is a bit lost in life, everyone she goes to seems to interpret her and her attitude on life as too much, and everyone close to her has their own prescriptions on who she should be. For example, her parents expect her to be the perfect careerwoman and her ex-boyfriend expected her to be sex-driven and not love-driven and it seems as though everyone in her life wants her to be anything but herself. This is why she is so attracted to the idea of rebelling against society, of doing and being everything but what she is told to be. Jesse is similar, born into a 'loving' family that was built on a foundation of lies, his parents hating each other and constantly using him as a pawn in their arguments, reminding him that he was a mistake, which often left him feeling out of place and lost, just as Celine was. He sought comfort of course in tiny bits of hope, like seeing his great-grandmother in the mist of a garden hose. Alas, being in a toxic long-distance relationship tampered with this, and as seen in the film he has a very inconsistent perspective on love and relationships. Jesse and Celine were lost, but they were lost together and that's all they had. Watching as they built this twelve hour long relationship on a bed of truth, spilling their deepest secrets and shames and everything they hated about themselves and reassuring each other and oh my god i love people. this entire movie has the same feeling as the album pink moon by nick drake so give that a listen please xxxx anyway going to go jump off a bridge (not actually i kind of like living now)