Spend a Day with a Stranger

I got the idea from the movie Before Sunrise By Richard Linklater. The film has only two characters engaging in a conversation all throughout. Describing it this way might make it seem boring to you, but it's the content of their conversation that makes the movie very interesting. The main characters, Jesse and Celine, have their first encounter with each other on a train. They go down in Vienna and spend a whole day together. They meet again after nine years (in real time, the movie really was made 9 years after) in the movie Before Sunset-my favorite movie- where they again talk about interesting matters. Although they are not lovers, it is the most romantic movie I have ever seen.

The situation portrayed in the movie is quite ideal. In our world today, it's not easy to just decide to hang out with someone you just met- what more, spend a whole day with that person. There's risk and excitement in it, and I think it would be fun to do this. Perhaps I should not have put this in my list, because it's quite odd to try finding a stranger to spend a whole day with. It would be unnatural to force a perfect moment like this. It's not easy to find a person who has interesting thoughts, but I'd definitely give this a try when I get the opportunity. Just like in the movie, it came at a time when they both didn't expect it, and it turned out to be wonderful.