4/27/2021 0 Comments Chungking Express 1994
Instead, it is, more significantly, a film that shows the leaps and bounds of how a certain love is lost and once again found; of a life merely wasted and a life well-lived.Please click the link below to receive your verification email.Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified.Just below that it reads Ticket Confirmation: followed by a 10-digit number.
![]() Cop 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) is distraught with heartbreak over a breakup. But when his ex drops a spare set of his keys at a local cafe, a waitress (Faye Wong) lets herself into his apartment and spruces up his life. Chungking Express 1994 Movie Moves LikeBut this quirky, deadpan movie moves like a rickshaw with a geriatric hauler in harness. With an imagery that resembles that of paintings created by the most turbulent-minded of artists and with an emotional center that seems so innocent yet so knowing, the film is a stimulating reminder of how nice it is to live and, more importantly, to love. Well, and also maybe some hints of how lovely it really is to eat (the film, after all, is filled with endless shots of food). Shot mostly within the confines of a cheap but suggestively lucrative lunch shack named Midnight Express, the film chronicles, in achingly beautiful sounds and colors, the story of two lovelorn police officers, Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and Cop 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), and how they painfully (and humorously) cope up with their romantic grief via their own personal idiosyncrasies. The first, a mid-twenties officer, is so pained by the estrangement of a certain girlfriend named May that he decides to buy a can of pineapple every single night until it piles up to 30. But the catch is that he only buys the ones that have an expiry date of May 1 (his birthday) so that when the said date finally comes and May is still not back in his arms, its only then that he can arrive at the conclusion that she really doesnt want him anymore, and that those fast-expiring pineapples need some desperate eating. The second one, an officer literally living beside the airport, is silently devastated when her stewardess of a girlfriend has suddenly left him alone, needy and slightly schizophrenic, as he begins to talk to his stuff toys, console his towels and scold his soaps, among others. But with utter disconnect, naturally, also comes a chance to connect anew. First, theres the mysterious, blond-wigged woman (Brigitte Lin), possibly a high-class low-life who has caught 223s love-hungry eyes. And then theres the infinitely quirkier Faye (Faye Wong), a short-haired young woman whos got this idiosyncratic affinity with the song California Dreamin. By emotionally patching these characters together to cope up with an increasingly apathetic Metropolitan existence with all their personal frustrations, vulnerabilities and imperfections intact, Wong Kar-wai has cleverly toned down Chungking Express potentially overbearing angle on love to the point that the film itself is not anymore a dual tale of love but simply, in itself, a mere cinematic slice of life. Well, granted, a more stylized version of life, that is, but still, with Wong Kar-wais wisely organic yet weirdly fascinating approach on characterization and his purely artistic sensibility of merging his sometimes frantic but often times observant imagery with stirring music to create an audiovisual kaleidoscope, Chungking Express has attained a cinematic form that is wholly its own. Is the film a romantic fare Sure, but it has something more to say than that. ![]() With those certain indecisions about the films real categorization, I think its more than safe to assume that Chungking Express, in the process, has created a new, specific type of cinematic language, specifically on how it has meandered and reflected on the qualms of love and life yet preserves its pristine affinity to just breathe, hope and desire. If Chungking Express main intent is to shake me out of my apathy and convince me into wandering the streets of wherever to search for a person who may or may not repay the love that I may offer, then the film has failed. The film, after all, is never an operational how to guide on finding a lost soul to connect to.
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