2046 (movie related)
maru
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i nearly picked up the chinese dvd the other day based solely on reviews. seems like the type of flick i would like, but looking for some testimonials from soulstrut. hot or not?
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Saw this in Singapore last November; it's not terribly linear and although you don't need foreknowledge of 'In the Mood for Love,' it does help in embellishin' your understandin' of the overall narrative - Tony Leung delivers another on-point performance and Zhang Ziyi veers away from her stereotypical Wu Xia Pian role... Visuals are stunnin' although Wong Kar-Wai's traditional cinematographer Chris Doyle was complemented by others owin' to the long and protracted process that Wong took in makin' this film...
http://www.wongkarwai.net/
heh, I was just gonna write the same thing.
Something I keep meaning to watch but I end up buying and watching shit like "Bichunmoo" instead
m*arky*n,
cholla at me, kid -- i totally spaced that i was gonna send you a copy of this dvd.
See, that's how I felt. In The Mood For Love has since become one of my favorites movies (up there with Brazil and Woodstock). Perhaps it's time to check it out, though.
Also, my understanding was that when they started filming this 5 and a half years ago, it was supposed to be set entirely in the future. Wong Kar Wai scrapped the whole picture and begin completely re-filming two years into the production!
After watching this film, it seems to me that he is out of ideas. "Oh well, it was still beautiful to look at" seems to be the consensus. Those women were all lookin' right, especially Faye Wong. There is a shot of her towards the end that made my face do this
Yes, the future concept was scrapped due to budget limitations. I don't think Wong Kar Wai was necessarily out of new ideas (in fact, I highly doubt that), rather he wanted to extend some of the concepts from In the Mood for Love. It's a more in-depth examination of one character's motivations and psychology.