As Dan Jardine puts it in his review of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset: These films ask us to consider the very nature and purpose of our existence in a fragmentary, superficial and transient universe.

在丹·贾丁对《爱在黎明破晓前》和《爱在日落黄昏后》的影评中，他提到：这些电影让我们思考在这个破碎、肤浅且短暂的世界中，我们存在的意义。