Before Sunrise 🌅 (Hanbin & Jennie)

Interior: Train - Afternoon

The Eurail rolls along, inside, passengers sleep, read, and stare at the window. A few walk up down the aisles. Jennie a beautiful young woman in her early 20's, is curled up in her seat reading her poem. Strikingly attractive, she plays it down by wearing no makeup, a blue flower blouse dress, and boots. She continues reading while taking an delicious bite of a chocolate bar. Sitting four rows back and on the other side of the aisle, Hanbin, also early 20's, is engrossed in Klaus Kinski's memoir, "All I Need Is Love". Casually good looking but a little scruffy, he dresses in jeans and a white T-shirt mode. Suddenly a foreign couple from America who have been arguing in the seat behind Jennie, start yelling at each other in English. The girlfriend takes a swipe at the newspaper the boyfriend has been screening himself behind.

                           GIRLFRIEND
Will you put down that fucking newspaper and listen to me?

                              BOYFRIEND
What've I been doing the last thirty minutes? Would you shut your damn mouth for Chrissake.

                             GIRLFRIEND
How about YOU shut up! How dare you to tell me shut up! It's the same damn thing all over again! I can't believe—

                             BOYFRIEND
Didn't I said shut the fuck up?! I'm putting down my newspaper and telling you this again... SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Jennie suddenly gets up, grabs her mini backpack, and starts looking for another seat. A few rows back, she finds a seat across the aisle from Hanbin. Before sitting down, they make a long eye contact and kind of shake their hands and smile at the tensions. Just as she settles in and goes back to her poem that she wrote, the girlfriend gets up and storms down the aisle. Hanbin and Jennie follow her with their eyes, and as she passes them they find they are looking right at each other. He makes a funny "holy shit" face.

                                 HANBIN
Do you have any idea what they're arguing about? Do you speak Korean?

                                  JENNIE
Yes. I just came back from New Zealand to take my exams. Have you ever heard the couples get older they lose their ability to hear each other?

                                 HANBIN
Really? I didn't know that.

                                 JENNIE
Supposedly men lose their ability to hear higher-pitched sounds and women eventually lose hearing on the low end. I guess their sort of  nullify each other or something.

                                HANBIN
Must be nature's way of allowing couple grow old together and not to kill each other, I guess.

There's a slightly awkward moment where they don't know if they should continue talking or not. She glances back down at her poem book but he keeps looking at her.

                                HANBIN
So what are you reading?

Jennie holds up the book of her poem so he can see or read what it is.

                                JENNIE
How about you?

Hanbin shows her what he's reading. Neither has much to say about the other's reading material.

                               JENNIE
There are o many weird people on the train, no? Last week on my way to Seoul I was sitting and talking with 4 other people in the lounge car and it turned out that 3 of them had killed people.

                              HANBIN
No way.

                              JENNIE
Really. One was a war veteran, one had murdered her boyfriend, and another had caused an bad car wreck.

                              HANBIN
So you were the only one who hadn't killed anyone?

                               JENNIE
No, I was one of them. Which one do you think? - she laughs and he slowly joins her -

                              HANBIN
I know you mean. I've met some weirdos. There was this French guy sitting across from me the other day who kept throwing his body against the back of his chair, yelling in French about how we should all join together and stop the train. He was saying "Everybody, now we can stop the technology. All together..."

                               JENNIE
So what happened? - Hanbin demonstrates by throwing his body against his seat. -

                              HANBIN
And you know, me and few others tried for a while, but we couldn't stop the technology.

The girlfriend who stormed away earlier suddenly comes back the argument resumes, right in front of them.

                               HANBIN
I was thinking about going to the lounge car sometime soon. You wanna go? — they get up and walk to the door of their car. He pushes the door open button, and as the door opens he extends his hand toward her.

                               JENNIE
Of course.

                              HANBIN
Oh, I'm Hanbin by the way. It's B.I. actually, but my whole life everyone's called me Hanbin.

                              JENNIE
So it's Hanbin B.I.?

                              HANBIN
No, Just Hanbin.

                              JENNIE
My name is Jennie.

The proceed through the door and Jennie pushes the door open button to enter the next car. There is some confusion as to who is opening the door for whom before Jennie proceeds and Hanbin follows her toward the lounge car.