As we all know, Utah is one of the most conservative states in the United States. As the base camp of the Momen Church, more than 70% of the residents are Momen Church believers. This is the city with the most unified religious beliefs in the United States. Therefore, in this city, political views and artistic aesthetics have always had a strong religious color. Newspapers such as the "Salt Lake City Tribune" and "Desalt Morning News" all have obvious religious tendencies. This also makes the influence of these media always limited to Utah, and it is difficult to make further breakthroughs.

But interestingly, Robert Redford set up the maverick Sundance Film Festival next to Salt Lake City, Utah. If the Sundance Film Festival wants to pay enough attention, media coverage is naturally an indispensable part of it. After its establishment in 1985, it has reached a cooperation agreement with the "Salt Lake City Weekly".

"Salt Lake City Weekly" is an emerging media. Compared with the "Salt Lake City Tribune" founded in 1870, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" established in 1984 can be said to be a rookie, and it is not older than the Sundance Film Festival. But it is precisely because of its youth that the "Salt Lake City Weekly" is not as conservative and serious as other old newspapers, and is more energetic and bold, and is naturally more suitable for new and brave things like the Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Film Festival reached a cooperation agreement with the "Salt Lake City Weekly". During the festival, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" was published daily in the form of a special issue, and then a special topic was developed in the newspaper's fixed journals every week for detailed reports.

"Salt Lake City Weekly" can be regarded as the official magazine of the Sundance Film Festival. Over the past decade, they have witnessed the growth of the Sundance Film Festival step by step, and at the same time they have grown together with the film festival. But objectively speaking, the influence of "Salt Lake City Weekly" is still limited. Even in Utah, where the media is barren, it still cannot withstand the strong appeal of the "Salt Lake City Tribune", and it has no influence after leaving Utah; the same is true for the Sundance Film Festival. The reputation of "the holy place of the independent film festival" is loud, but it is loud and thunder. Ten years have passed and it is still lukewarm, just because independent films have never really entered the mainstream vision.

But this situation has been completely reversed this year. As the official magazine, "Salt Lake City Weekly" was the first newspaper to get an exclusive interview with the crew of "Before Sunrise", and was ahead of the "Los Angeles Times" who was calling the wind and rain in the United States. That special issue sold 830,000 copies, which was more than the total sales of the "Salt Lake City Weekly" in the second half of 1994.

Among the feats of Sundance surpassing the Golden Globes, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" was the first to be hit. Many of their reports were even reprinted by the "Los Angeles Times" and the "New York Times", making them famous in one fell swoop, and they truly knew what the star effect is and what national influence is.

Especially in the street siege incident in Park City, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" completely restored the truth with the help of landlords, including the crazy actions made by the little girl and Hugo by the family, including the post-event interviews that many loyal fans of the film festival lost their minds that day. It was the only media among all news media that could present the entire picture of the incident, making it famous in one fell swoop.

Utah has always been hailed as a news desert. Even the dominant "Salt Lake City Tribune" has no influence outside Utah, and many people even mocked it as a "Momen Special Issue". But this time, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" reversed the fixed impression of many people, making it famous in Nebraska and Texas next door.

Therefore, the "Salt Lake City Weekly" is like a chicken blood. They all know that this year's Sundance Film Festival is a good opportunity for their rise. As long as they take the "Before Sunrise" and Hugo bus, not to mention promoting their influence across the United States, they can at least occupy a place in Utah.

Jess James, a reporter of Salt Lake City Weekly, had already made up her mind that she had to rack her brains and do her best to compliment and praise "before sunrise". She felt that this was not an easy task, because the independent films that appeared at the Sundance Film Festival were strange and it was very difficult to get the audience's love, but even so, there was no way to stop her, because she knew that this was her best opportunity to work in a newspaper.

But when Jesse actually watched the movie, she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time. She fell in love with "before the sunrise", fell in love with the man with a young childish smile on the corners of her mouth, fell in love with the woman with a lazy charm on the corners of her eyes, and fell in love with the unseen bond between men and women.

Jesse couldn't help herself and sat in front of the big screen and savored it carefully, so that she missed the opportunity to interview Hugo at the first time, but she didn't care at all. Then she watched the second and third playbacks "Before Sunrise". Most ordinary movies can't stand the scrutiny of repeated viewing, but "Before Sunrise" is different. Every time she watches Jesse has a new feeling. The same dialogue is repeated but has different gains. She loves this movie so much that she immerses her in the cold moonlight of Vienna and is unwilling to come back to her senses.

So, when Jesse wrote the film review, his hands were shaking, it was not the brain that was talking, but the heart and soul that were whispering.

"This is an extremely moving love movie, but it is also an extremely simple love story: a man and a woman accidentally meet on a train, have a good impression, and spend a night together in Vienna, that's all.

There are no ups and downs, no unforgettable things happening, no turning or progression happening to sublimate the relationship between the two. Everything is so simple: a normal date, a casual meal, endless chat, and a shallow drinking. This is basically a love story without any plot.

But it is precisely this simplicity that restores the truest face of love. Without vows, storms, and passion, can love still burst out? Hidden behind the clues of simple stories, it explores the two most important themes of love: the passing of love and the blooming of love.

The beauty and eternity of this story are first of all because of the shortness of this love, which lasts only for one night, fleeting, like a meteor sliding across the sky, because beautiful love often must be short, just as the man in the movie said: We are often tired of ourselves, because we cannot escape ourselves, and must endure ourselves at all times. If both parties in love do not know how to take the initiative to let love pass or change at the right moment, then love will eventually lead itself to death: because, if we can't even bear it ourselves, how can we ask others to endure ourselves, and how can we endure another person for a long time?

However, the death of love and the passing of love are two completely different things. Before the flame of love has yet to be extinguished, actively losing love is actually to keep love forever in a sense. Just like the thirteen-year-old girl in the nameless cemetery: Ten years have passed, and the thirteen-year-old woman grew up ten years old, but the little girl who lost her life is still only thirteen years old. The lost life has made her thirteen-year-old eternal, people who have not lost their lives, but youth slowly dies.

Therefore, people always miss their youthful first love, and always miss their youthful love, because they cannot be realized, because they die at the most brilliant and gorgeous time, so they leave the most perfect posture in their memory forever.

At the end of the story, men and women chose to part on the platform, so this love became a classic eternity. Before love died, it took the initiative to extinguish the burning flames, but left a never-ending starlight in the depths of the soul.

Another reason for the moving and beautiful story is the natural and casual nature of this love. After two people meet, they naturally talk, naturally have good feelings, naturally burst out with sparks, naturally hold hands, naturally kiss, not resist but not forceful, like is like, speak out in a blunt way. When you fall in love with those cute lips, the lips are already on your tongue, because she knows your desire for her, and she also longs for your touch.

Such simple and natural love is the most difficult thing to encounter in real life: it is not because this kind of love is too complicated and cannot be obtained, but because it is too simple and cannot be obtained. Love in life often has too many strategies and calculations, just like the woman in the story said: too much thoughtfulness and too much self-protection.

How many men dare to invite a strange woman he met on the train to spend one night together in a city he is completely unfamiliar with, and how many women will actively confess their love and true feelings? The most important thing is, how many men and women embrace each other overnight with the exchange of thoughts first, while the entanglement of the body is second?

A kiss, a hug, and a night is just the beginning of a love. We who are afraid of failure always have too many fears before starting a "formal relationship". We must find out everything before we are willing to start, but we forget that there are many things that we will never know before love begins.

The simplest love is the rarest, and the simplest love is also the most touching.

The last reason for the sincerity and wonder of this story is that the collision of thoughts between men and women. Each dialogue seems casual but has deep meaning. The two people trace from philosophical issues to the cycle of life, from the true meaning of love to the essence of marriage, and from the difference between men and women to revealing their true feelings. One conversation after another makes two strange souls approach little by little. The whole process is so fast and so slow, but so real and beautiful.

Watching men and women meet, talk, stand shoulder to shoulder, look at each other, smile, and kiss like this... We seem to see the process of love bursting out sparks bit by bit, beautiful, intoxicated, in a trance, people are lost in the time between light and shadow.
Chapter completed!