Much of what Jesse and Celine talk about are their thoughts on everything - much on the themes of life and death. In one scene, Jesse and Celine pretend to talk to theirfriends on the telephone, each pretending to be the other’s friend. In what is a truly honest moment, they talk about how they feel about one another. Nothing in life is harder than to tell another person how you feel about them.
Throughout Jesse and Celine’s wanderings in Vienna, the shots change rather than be mostly in front of the two changes intermitting to shots behind them - to make sure that the audience remembers that they are not following us, but rather we are following them. At the end of the film, there are also several shots of the various places that Jesse and Celine walked throughout Vienna - a bridge; a boat restaurant; an alley; a cemetery and a park, which all seem ordinary, but for this night everything came alive.
Is there such a thing as true love? Is it possible that there is one person that we can so easily connect with? I’m sure people like to think so, and it is that chance encounter with that possible true love that keeps people looking.
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