Before Sunrise Epic Greek Tragedy

I just watched Before Sunrise. The ending was not meant to be depressing when they made it. It was meant to be open ended and the audience is supposed to wonder if they meet again. But ten years later they made a second film which told us that he turned up at the train station, and she couldn’t make it because her grandmother died. That all the hopes they had, the young love they grew, the endless conversation ends up haunting them for a decade. How horrible. It’s like the most depressing movie ever I think, watching two people fall in love and know that in ten years time, she would be stuck in a relationship she’s not that passionate about, and he’s in a marriage that "feels like a small nursery," and they spent ten long years suffering over the fact that they never got to meet that person again. Uck. I am going to watch before sunset now. I thought it was a great film when i saw it a while back, but now I know the back story, I think it’s just going to be an hour and a half long exercise watching two people trying to make some sense of wasted time. As small as those two films are, as simple the concept, it’s like epic drama of Greek tragedy proportions…. so you don’t end up killing your father and sleeping with your mother, but quiet desperation is just about 100 times worse. at least with the former, you enjoyed your ten years doing it before you found out the truth followed by a quick death.