Urban crowd with unlimited desires

Russ 2022-01-02 08:01:17


Ambiguous, I use this term to define the men and women in "Chongqing Forest".

Police 223, Awu. He doesn't understand "why things always expire in this world", so he doesn't believe that his love has expired. Even if it rots, he still wants to keep it. For Takeshi Kaneshiro, like the dumb guy in "Fallen Angels", it has become a classic. He always says things that modern people don't understand, and does things that modern people don't understand: such as the "expired" theory of supermarket salesmen. , Such as inviting people to eat ice cream. Naturally, many of these words are now often heard: "Running is such a private matter...", "At that time, we were separated by 0.01 cm...", "If we had to add a deadline..." He was also ambiguous. It lies in his persistence.

633, a night policeman. The same is an abandoned man, he fully expresses the sorrow of a lonely man, except for work, almost no himself. His ambiguity exists in the time of flirting with Affi. What a good excuse to buy late-night snacks is to fill your stomach and fill your emotions. However, this man is not brave enough. Perhaps, he is still reluctant to part with his old lover, who knows?

Affi, a service girl in a nightclub. This is the brilliance of the whole movie, Faye Wong deserves the best actress. She likes her authentic Beijing film the most. Unfortunately, the version of Wong Kar Wai's DVD complete set is in Cantonese. A Fei's ambiguity lies in her secret love, it is crazy for no reason, but it makes people like it very much. In real life, no one may dare to be so bold, but in the movie it is very simple.

There is nothing to say about the drug-trafficking girl played by Brigitte Lin, but that kind of neurotic feeling is in place.

The film uses a narrow shooting angle to bring people into the alienated environment of Hong Kong. If Wang Jiawei in "Chongqing Forest" wants to express that people should warm each other, then use "distance" to highlight the absolute GOOD. Moreover, the uncertainty of feelings between people is also vividly reflected in the movie. As a member of the modern city, Wang Jiawei keenly captured people's confusion, anxiety, betrayal and desire, so he succeeded.

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Chungking Express quotes

  • [633 confronts an intruder]

    Cop663: What are you doing in my apartment?

    Faye: You asked me to visit.

  • [633 after Faye fails to meet him at the California restaurant in Hong Kong]

    Cop663: Actually, she did go to California that evening. But it was the other one.