Saturday, May 14, 2011

Places

     I am a fan of the beach. And I am a fan of a million other places you can give a visit to. Just now, I watched the 1995 movie Before Sunrise. And I realised that places are defined by much more than what they hold on themselves   that we like or dislike places because they come with a cluster of other factors.
     
     Two people 'with a connection' meet in a train coach.
     They decide to spend a night together, not knowing how else to remain with each other.
     They talk.
     In a bus. On their way. At a bar. On the lawn. They decide to correspond regularly.
     It's the next day.
     The girl has to depart. 
     They trash the idea of corresponding. 
     They decide to meet six months from then. Platform 6, at 6 o' clock.

     The camera moves to the bus. It moves to the road. 
     Then they show the bar. And then the lawn comes in view.

     And you just don't realise, they are the same places as before they were, 
     And they seem to have just lost something.
     And they seem all different. All new?

     That is what I meant to say. It is not the places that seem special, it's the things and people around that make the places what they look to you. 
     Uh, umm...what else do I say?
     Period.

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