sian and i were excited to watch it immediately after the second part of the series but i believe it would have been better if we waited muna. the very beginning was fine—the airport scene, the car ride—we really got to see the transformation that occurred nine years into the future. but then the middle part, particularly the scenes with their friends, just dragged on. it was all just sex jokes and banal conversations to the point that we actually had to stop watching and instead resumed the day after. the new characters provided nothing interesting, and they weren’t even relevant from then on. but it once again started to pick up once jesse and celine began to walk to the hotel. we just caught another glimpse of the pair we once knew and grown to love despite their now very-adult issues and conflicts and weary perspectives in life. the hotel scene itself—while the explicitness shocked me truly—was the highlight of the movie. the thing about this film is that even from the beginning, they never shied away from showing the growing tension between jesse and celine. and then everything just blew up in the hotel when they were trying to fuck. i sympathized with jesse but as a woman, i empathized with celine. honestly, the ending left me with mixed feelings. they resolved nothing—nothing AT ALL—except perhaps they gave the viewers hope that everything would be all right, even if we won’t be there to watch it anymore. after all, jesse and celine have accepted there would be no other true love like theirs in this lifetime, despite all its imperfections. but for a movie series whose endings always kept us wondering what comes next, it fits just as well with the first parts. on a personal note, i’m happy to have finished this iconic series with my best friend. sian’s always thanked me for my company as we went through the movies, but i’m really just glad to be.