Ten Great Shots that Help Explain Chungking Express
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excellent video. I’ve seen the movie 4 times and I still learned a lot. Thank you Dr. Matthews!
you're welcome!
the woman cleaning his apartment but not having a relationship with him, is almost like someone serving you in the city but never getting to know you. The first cop falls in love with someone in a disguise, its contact but its not truly knowing her. Than the second cop falls in love with a flight attendant, but never leaves on a plane with her, only having a toy plane he flies across her body. Its the dream of escape but not the escape itself, and she ends up abandoning him. Then he has toys in his house he uses as fake, replacement relationships too. I will have to watch this again keeping all this in mind, because I didn't enjoy this film on the first viewing, but most of its depth and enjoyment is in its visual motifes. The Korean movie Ill Mare is a film about loneliness that I really love.
thank you.
just found your channel through your metropolis video, and im so happy your recent video is about one of my faves
I watched Chungking Express - DVD then BluRay came out - and of coarse the refresh a couple years back. I know that the camera and settings were used to push people together or show connection - which our normal perception cannot see - so distorted time and space in a manner or had the lens scope (pull in the space OR re-context by slowing part of the image to stand out) people into a the frame. Somewhere the idea was comparable to how you get on a bus and perceive the compression of people but they are oblivious to that because they are in their own world with Walkman's on. This is a great introduction to WKW as the best explanation I have it to watch his movies in a manner of a Soap Opera .. with this movie just having two settings Story One and Story Two (cameos aside in Story One) set for one to follow the other. The out takes are fascinating, and like 2046 full of the "what if" .. Faye Wong (her real name is something like Shirley) - but WKW had the experienced Tony there to mentor Faye more - but he said she was so unconstrained he figured out it was up to him to bend to her performance - and it worked well with excellent chemistry - which probably let to Story Two becoming larger and having the Fallen Angel "Story Three" fall off (not unlike in a manner how In the Mood for Love was scripted as 2046 originally). Well done - nice to see film student get to see these films.
thank you
Wong Kar-Wai is definitely the master of unrequited love... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
Great analysis Josh! Can't wait for your video on the crown jewel "In the mood for love". 💪🏻
thank you. this channel does have an "in the mood for love" video!
@@LearningaboutMovies i just watched. Great job as usual👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Thanks.
Thanks, Josh. This is a great video. I hadn't noticed the CDs or the buildings at the beginning though I haven't seen it for 10 years or more. Wong Kar-Wai had a very novel way with images that was very modern and for this reason, I would rate this movie as one of the truly great movies of the last 30 years. I showed it to my students back in the 2000s and we studied the opening sequence. They were a bit non-plussed by it and I was disappointed. It is definitely a movie worthy of study. And the time-lapse photography shot was an innovation at the time. Great work.
thanks, I had a similar experience. Showed it once and no one cared or thought anything about it. I think it's totally creatively inspirational!
I have to admit I struggle with this movie. Maybe the depictions of loneliness I read as boredom, which in turn made me bored. Anyway, I like to hear your take on it anyway!
thanks.
Watched it in cinema couple months ago, great video
Our university library has this film so I saw it many times. I think it's a fluffy, charming film that has no heavy messages. The song "California Dreamin'" is perhaps overused.
And I am addicted to it❤❤
Great movie by one of best director
While I think In The Mood For Love is better, Chunking Express has the better mechanics
I saw this movie just last week. This is a nice surprise!
excellent!
I'd not heard of this movie, but it looks fun, and interesting. I'm a fan of (some) quirky Asian movies, and have visited Hong Kong many times, so I will add this to my list. Thank you for bringing this movie to my attention. 👏
you're welcome. enjoy!
one film I believe is very thematically related to Chungking Express outside Wong's filmography is The Young Girls of Rochefort, and I think that to better grasp this one should watch from In The Mood For Love back to Fallen Angels, in reverse chronological order
thank you.
Good information
thank you.
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I thought it was terrible. I'm a film guy.
fair enough.
@@LearningaboutMovies Same here. I found it terribly pretentious and empty. Looks too fabricated to appeal to a Western audience. And the fact that the 2 stories don't have a real link (only very artificial) to each other frustrates me massively. Would rather have 2 short films that a long broken one.
@@margauxb1981 to each their own. they have no connection, they just happened to cross paths. which means, no matter how the world seems small and there's a chance we come close with other people (that has nothing to do with us personally) there's a chance that we will never know them. with the faye wong and tony leung storyline, she's infatuated with him but then she realized that she's not yet ready to be in a relationship with him although he might have felt the same way, so she leaves and chased her dreams and return at the right time. imo, that's romantic.
@@emptylikebox I understand the idea of people coming close but never getting to know each other. But the film barely explores that point and leaves me with too little to be "satisfied", if I can use that word. But I am glad that you enjoyed it, and it is great we can be touched by different things and discuss about it :)