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The fact that you can say "Assad isn't that bad" and "Saying the wrong thing will get you killed" is an...interesting take.

EDIT: RIP my inbox.

So cool to see you three doing an AMA! I could ramble on for pages but I’ll keep my gushing concise:

I saw Before Midnight in a theater last week with my wife and we both found it tremendously moving, but also incredibly helpful to our relationship. We’ve always had a special biographical similarity with Jesse and Celine, and we’ve been going through a rough patch in our marriage due to life circumstances, career changes, and so forth. Seeing such similar experiences interpreted through these characters that we feel we know so well has been so helpful for us and means more than I can say, really.

I have two questions:

1. Starting with Before Sunset, the relationship you three developed has been very different from the traditional fictional romance. It has always struck me as the most realistic depiction of a relationship, even in those blissful few hours of connection. But in the first two movies it was still largely a “feel-good” story. Were you worried about whether people would “get” the turn that Before Midnight takes, towards a much more painful and angry picture of this relationship?

2. Help settle a bet between my wife and me: what about the implications of infidelity on the part of Jesse? Did he, didn’t he, or is it deliberately left ambiguous?

You really think the landlord is paying for all those things out of the goodness of his heart? Yeah, no. Property taxes, upkeep fees, new appliances...all those costs you think you're dodging are ALREADY being paid for out of the rent, plus a little bit on top for his trouble. Show me a landlord who rents for less than his total expenses and I'll eat my hat.

Because they brew the hard way.

Right?

Fantastic answers, and you guys absolutely nailed it. How a couple can go from bitter, hateful fighting to tender conversation back to fighting in the space of minutes...it felt like you had touched something so real I couldn't believed it was fiction.