Before Sunrise

Besides the fact that it (really) involves meeting people on trains, I mean, meeting people on trains is a crucial part of the story, and I really hate meeting people when I'm traveling (possibly because of the type of people who are often traveling, especially in hostels in Europe--well off high school kids who want to drink in a new city, and lots of people who are really excited about meeting other people while they're traveling--or possibly because you just meet them and then never see them again, which is an indescribably painful idea to me [another key aspect of the story--look at me not spoiling anything at the moment!]), but besides all of this, Before Sunrise is charming. It is basically a conversation (sometimes a little self-consciously deep and disconnected, like one interesting, insightful story on top of another), a deep conversation in which both characters (the boy has a smarmy goatee, but maybe that's just 1995) share their thoughts and reveal themselves. The girl is romantic and possibly secretly an ax-murderer (I am still scared of her), and the boy is cynical because he's just had his heart broken (although deep down, he's every bit as romantic). The scene in which they pretend to call their friends and tell them about their experience is absolutely adorable.