# Before Sunrise: tale or complete story? **URL:** \ **Category:** Analysis and Review\ **Created:** [February 8, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/before-sunrise-tale-or-complete-story/2309 "2019-02-08T21:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bastoche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Bastoche](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/Bastoche)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/before-sunrise-tale-or-complete-story/2309/1 "2019-02-08T21:22:15Z")
My instincts tell me that it is probably a complete story, but it requires more abstract and conceptual thinking when approaching its analysis. Anybody familiar with the movie have any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![jhay](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/discuss.dramatica.com/jhay/32/1944_2.png) [@jhay](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/jhay)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/before-sunrise-tale-or-complete-story/2309/2 "2019-02-10T10:26:56Z")
I haven’t seen it in many years, but my instinct tells me that there’s more likelihood in there being a storyform across the entire trilogy, rather than the individual stories. I don’t think there’s enough ‘there’ in the first to make it complete. The third, maybe, but it feels like it’s reflecting the trilogy as a whole. ---
**Author:** ![Bastoche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Bastoche](https://discuss.dramatica.com/u/Bastoche)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.dramatica.com/t/before-sunrise-tale-or-complete-story/2309/3 "2019-02-14T22:21:02Z")
Throughlines for _Before Sunrise_, how about: OS - Making the most of Vienna until morning MC - Jesse, recently jaded about love IC - Celine, will open Jesse up to love again RS - Jesse/Celine romance ??