The uniqueness of Wong Kar-wai's films lies first in his in-depth understanding of his own city and time, and in the fact that he has found an appropriate way to express his own experience of life in such a special external environment. He is the artist with the keenest insight into the current state of Hong Kong: the crowded Chungking Mansions, the dark blue sky divided by the high-rise buildings of Mongkok, the windows of the apartments by the Kai Tak Airport where you can see the planes taking off and landing, and of course the street stalls, convenience stores and dark bars. (of course, you can think of the lonely desert in East is West as an allegory for the modern city, and the rootlessness of a faraway land in Spring Breakers is a reflection of the colonial city of Hong Kong in a different time and place). Wong Kar-wai is a visual expressionist heavily burdened with "urban sensibility", and the inorganic and symbolic nature of the modern city makes his works often have content hidden in form and style, or rather, style itself is sometimes his content. In the works of Hong Kong New Wave directors such as Ann Hui and Tam Kar-ming, you can easily touch the "real sense of life" that supports his style, but you can't see it in Wong Kar-wai's movies.
Wong Kar-wai's world of images is highly abstracted and real, and this is first and foremost reflected in his unique view of time in his narratives. The scenes in Wong Kar Wai's films often show a kind of suspension in the past and future of linear time. Although he constantly emphasizes the concept of time with details, such as the famous opening scene in "Legend of Ah Fei", the repetition of the date in "Chungking Woods", and the festival season often pointed out at the beginning of the event in "East is East, West, West Poison," there is no special background of time for the stories he tells, and they may happen in the corners of the city every day. They may happen every day in the corners of the city, they are just specimens extracted from city life. If you've watched Chongqing Forest carefully, you'll realize that certain details of the two stories are actually intertwined with each other. Wang uses this hide-and-seek game to create a kind of ****temporal effect, which both dissolves the linear time concept of the traditional narrative and highlights the accidental and disordered nature of contemporary urban life, thus forming a kind of existentialist spiritual connotation.
The "abstract reality" of Wong Kar-wai's films also manifests itself in his occasional fragmentary narrative structure and his borrowing of popular symbols. If you are moved by Wong's work, it is not because of the impression of the world as a whole, but because of the atmosphere evoked by the details, fragments, and rambling subjective monologues, which can make you feel something in your heart***. Atmosphere exists in snippets or is interspersed in the white space between snippets, much like postmodern aesthetics' eschewal of grand narratives and preference for minutely detailed impressions. In Wong's films, you can find a large number of pop culture symbols, such as pop music, trademarks, cartoon toys, etc., including the characters he likes to use very much, such as the police, killers, Fei, etc., are in fact a kind of subculture symbols on the edge of the city, and this kind of consumer symbols provided by the city through Wong's collage become like a mirror reflecting the symbolic sensibility that the modern society has metamorphosed from the concrete real image, which also makes his films extremely extreme.
Of course, when it comes to Wong's films, what immediately comes to mind are the trance-like, dizzying shaky-cam shots taken by hand-held cameras, the irregular compositions of the images, and the use of colorful but indifferent tones. This trademark image is largely attributed to his longtime collaborators, art director Zhang Shuping and cinematographer To Ho Fung. Today, you can see this kind of Wong Kar-wai style image in many Hong Kong independent art films and even in some commercial movies, but most of them are just a copy of the form and lack of inner creativity.
Wong Kar-wai's movies have a cool, flashy formality, but they're actually full of emotion: the irony of fast-food love in Chungking Woods, the delicate, entangled feelings in Spring Breakers, and the scene in Fallen Angels in which Takeshi Kaneshiro makes ice cream for his father are all unforgettable. One of the themes that is always present in his works is the longing for some kind of confidences and communication between people and the helplessness towards the impossibility of individual communication that is far stronger than this longing. No one in Chinese cinema is as good as Wong Kar-wai at expressing this theme in such a subtle and evocative way.
It's too early to draw conclusions about Wang's achievements today. The prestigious British magazine Sound and Picture voted Wang as the most important film innovator of the 1990s, with André Bazin in the '50s and Andy Warhol in the '70s ahead of his name, and in its review of him it said, "Wang may not be all that is left of the future of cinema, but he certainly points to a direction in which it is headed. "
[edit]Works
Carmen of Mongkok (1989) Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Cheung
Alfie's Story (1990) Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Chao-wai
East Meets West (1994) Leslie Cheung, Ching-Hsia Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Alan Leung, Tony Leung Chao-wai, Jacky Cheung, Carina Lau, Charlie Yang
Car Bounty (2005) (BMW commercial #6)
The Hand of Love (2006) (Wong Kar-Wai, Stephen Soderbergh and Antonioni) Strathairn
East is West Ultimate (2009) Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Leung, Alan Leung, Tony Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Carina Lau, Charlie Young
The Grandmaster (2010) Tony Leung, Zhao Benshan, Zhang Zhen
[Edit]Other's Evaluation
Leslie Cheung, Leslie Cheung: Wong Kar-wai is a success, and the breadth of mind that he has to look at the matter, and what he wants to express, is really different from that of the average director. of what he wants to express, is really different from the average director.
Wong Kar-wai did not wear sunglasses Cheung Kwok-wing: Wang Kar-wai directed the movie is a unique, decadent or the world of nothingness, although according to the film of different times of the settings, space settings are also different, but he depicted the world is always the same.
[edit]Classic lines
Classic lines from Carmen of Mongkok -
Because I know myself so well, I can't promise you anything.
Don't you say it twice, say it twice and I'll believe it.
I'd rather be a hero for a day than a worm for the rest of my life!
There is cooked rice in the kitchen, in addition, I also bought a few cups, I know, it will not take long to use them all will be broken, so I secretly hid a, to the day you need that cup, just call me a phone, I will tell you where to put it.
I wanted to tell you that I found that cup.
Classic lines from Alfie -
Representing Alfie the Sixteenth, April the Sixteenth. You were with me one minute before 3:00 p.m. on April 16, 1960, and because of you I'll remember this minute. From now on we are friends for a minute, that's a fact, you can't change it because it's over. I will come back tomorrow.
I don't know if he remembered that minute because of me, but I always remembered this guy. He literally came every day after that, and we went from being one minute friends to two minute friends, and before long we were seeing each other for at least an hour a day.
I used to think that a minute goes by quickly, but it can actually be very long. One day a man pointed to his watch and told me that he said he would always remember me because of that minute, and at that time I thought it was very moving ...... but now when I look at the clock, I tell myself I'm going to start forgetting about this person from this minute.
I heard someone say that there is a kind of bird in the world is no feet, it can only fly all the time fly ah fly ah fly tired to sleep in the wind, this kind of bird life can only go down to the ground once, and that time is the time of its death.
Why should I be accommodated?
This is the first time I've ever seen a bird in the air, and I've never seen a bird in the air.
I finally arrived at my real mother's house, but she refused to see me, and the maid said she no longer lived here. As I left the house, I knew there were eyes behind me, but I was sure not to turn back. I merely wanted to meet her and see what she looked like, and since she wouldn't give me a chance, I would certainly not give her a chance.
I used to think there was a kind of bird that started out flying and landed on the day it died. In fact, it has never been anywhere, that bird has been dead from the beginning. I used to say I wouldn't know who my favorite woman was until the last moment, and I wonder what she's doing now. The sky is starting to lighten, the weather looks good today, I wonder what the sunset will be like today?
Chongqing Forest classic lines -
Representatives of Chongqing Forest Everyone has a lost love, and every time I lost love, I would go running, because running can evaporate the water in your body, and make me less prone to tears, how can I shed tears? In May's mind, I am a cool guy.
The closest we got was 0.01 centimeters between me and her, and 57 hours later, I was in love with this woman.
The closest I got to her was 0.01 centimeters between us, I knew nothing about her, and six hours later, she was in love with another man.
The day we broke up was April Fool's Day, so I kept treating her as if she was joking, and I was willing to let her joke last for a month. Since the day we broke up, I've been buying a can of pineapple every day that expires on May 1st because pineapple is May's favorite food and May 1st is my birthday. I told myself that when I bought the full 30 cans, the relationship would expire if she didn't come back.
I don't know when it started, there is a date on everything, the okonomiyaki will expire, the canned meat will expire, even the plastic wrap will expire, I began to doubt, in this world, what else will not expire?
Finally at a convenience store, let me find the 30th can of pineapple. It was on the morning of May 1st that I began to understand one thing, in May's mind, there is no difference between me and this can of pineapple.
In fact, understanding a person does not mean anything, people change, today he likes pineapple, tomorrow he can like something else.
It didn't occur to me that what she meant by rest was real rest, and throughout the evening I watched two sets of long Cantonese movies and ate chef salad four times. When it was almost dawn, I knew it was time for me to go. As I was leaving, I helped her take off her shoes. I remembered my mom saying that if a woman sleeps in high heels, her feet will swell the next day. She must have taken a long walk last night, and for a woman as beautiful as her, her heels should be clean.
On May 1, 1994, a woman told me "Happy Birthday," and because of that, I will always remember this woman. If memory is a can, I hope this can will not expire; if I have to add a date, I hope she is 10,000 years.
The date on the can tells me that I don't have many days left, and if I don't find that class of Indians, I'm in trouble.
I don't know when I became a very careful person, every time I wear a raincoat I wear sunglasses, you never know when it's going to rain or when the sun is going to come out.
I don't know if I forgot to turn off the faucet at work or if the house is just getting more and more attached. I always thought it was strong, who knew it would cry so much. When a person cries, you only need to give her a pack of tissues, but if a house cries, you have to do a lot more.
When I watched it cry, I was very happy because it seemed to have changed on the outside, but its essence didn't change, it was still an emotional towel.
That afternoon I had a dream that I arrived at his house, and when I walked out of that house, I thought I would wake up, who knows, it turns out that some dreams never wake up.
In fact, it's not that he didn't come, he just went to the wrong place. That night, all of us were in California, except that there was a 15-hour difference between us, and it was now 11:00 a.m. on his side. I wonder if he'll remember to ask me out tonight at 8pm?
On every airplane, there must be an air hostess you want to pick up, and this time last year, I was very successful in picking up one at 25,000 feet. I thought I'd be with her for a long time, like a fueled-up airplane that could fly a long way. Who knows that the plane changed stops in the middle ......
"East Evil, West Poison" classic line -
Representation of the "East Evil, West Poison" many years later, I have a nickname called "West Poison I was nicknamed "West Poison". In fact, anyone can be cruel, as long as you have tried what is called "jealousy". I don't mind what others think of me, I just don't want others to be happier than me.
It seems that you are in your early forties, and there are always things you don't want to talk about, or people you don't want to see again, or people who have wronged you, and you may have thought of killing them, but you didn't dare to. Ha, or maybe you think it's not worth it, in fact, killing people, it's easy. I have a friend, his martial arts is very good, but recently life is a bit difficult, as long as you casually give him a little bit of silver, he can definitely help you kill that person, just think about it. In fact, killing a person is not very easy, but in order to live, many people will take this risk.
Not long ago, I met a person who gave me a bottle of wine. She said it was called "Drunkenness and Dreaming", and after drinking it, it can make you forget everything you've done in the past. I wondered why there was such a wine. She said the biggest problem is that people remember too well, if you can forget everything, every day will be a new start, then you say how happy it is.
Do you know the difference between drinking wine and water? Wine, the more you drink the warmer, water will drink the more cold.
If one's memory is bad, don't go to too many places of right and wrong, because you may forget your enemies.
Let him be sad! If I am so unhappy, why don't I find someone to keep me company. I just want him to taste what it's like to not be able to have someone.
The most painful way you can kill someone is to kill his favorite person first.
Some people only realize that the person they left is their favorite after they leave.
A person is frustrated, more or less will find an excuse to cover themselves. In fact, Murong Yan, Murong Yan, is only the same person's two identities, in these two identities, hiding behind a wounded person.
Do you know, I once looked for that woman, because someone said your favorite woman is her, I would have liked to kill her, and then I did not do so, because I do not want to prove that she is. I once asked myself if your favorite woman was me, but now I don't want to know anymore. If one day I can not help but ask, you must lie to me, even if you heart how unwilling, do not tell me your favorite person is not me.
If you have the heart to avenge your brother's death, you have to raise a sum of money, no one will offend the swordsman of the lieutenant's office for a donkey. Revenge comes at a price. If you are ugly, I advise you to die of this. Think I have any intentions for you, I just want to tell you that if you were to be sold, you would be worth more than the donkey.
Everyone stands up for what they believe in, and what others see as a waste of time, she feels is important.
There is a season when the flowers bloom, and no one knows when the horse thief arrives.
I used to hear people say that if the knife is fast, the blood from the wound sprayed out like the sound of the wind, it is very good to hear, I can not imagine that the first time I heard it was my own blood out of the blood.
There is a profession that suits you well, it can help you earn some silver, but also can be chivalrous, are you interested? You, consider it, but be quick about it, you know, stomachs get hungry quickly.
Usually people who take money and don't even look at it, they spend it quickly, but Hong Qi counts it carefully, and I know that this kind of person won't stay with me for long.
Don't think it's easy to deceive a woman, the more innocent she is the more direct she is.
What lies beyond this desert?
It is another desert.
Everyone goes through this phase of seeing a mountain and wondering what's behind it. I was tempted to tell him that maybe if you go over the back of the mountain, you'll realize there's nothing special, and you'll look back and think this side is better.
As much as I like her, I don't want her to know, because I understand that what you can't have is always the best. Every time she gazed at the little child, I knew that in her heart she was actually thinking of another person. I was very jealous of Ouyang Feng, I wanted to know what it was like to be liked, and I ended up hurting a lot of people.
I used to think so, but as I watched him grow up, I knew he would leave me sooner or later. Now I don't think anything matters. I used to think that words were important because I felt that some words are said for a lifetime, but now I think that there is no difference between saying them or not saying them, some things will change. I always thought that I had won until one day I looked in the mirror and realized that I had lost, that my favorite people were not with me when I was at my best. It would be so nice to start over!
I know that the best way to not be rejected is to reject people first.
In fact, the "drunkenness" is just a joke she played with me. The more you want to know if you have forgotten, the more clearly you remember. I once heard someone say that when you can no longer have, the only thing you can do is to make yourself not forget.
Fallen Angel Classic Line -
I've worked with her for a hundred and fifty-five weeks, and today is the first time we've sat down together. Because human emotions are hard to control. That's why we've kept our distance, because the best patsies aren't supposed to have feelings.
To be a partner, in addition to getting to know her, you have to give her the opportunity to get to know you.
When you are young, you think there is an answer to everything, but when you are old, you may feel that there is no such thing as an answer in life. Every day you have the opportunity to rub shoulders with many people, some of whom may become your friends or confidants, so I never give up any opportunity to rub shoulders with people. Sometimes it messes with my head, so what the heck! I'm just happy to be there.
Often times, a person's personality affects his career. The biggest advantage of doing this business is that you don't have to make decisions. Who should die, time, place, others have long decided. I am a very lazy person, I like people to arrange everything for me. So I need a partner.
It's easy to look at the trash a guy throws away and you'll know what he's done lately. Every time he comes to this bar, he seems to like the quietness of the place. Sometimes, I would sit in the seats where he had sat, because then, it seemed like I felt with him. Some people are not meant to be approached too closely, knowing too much rather than being interested. I am a very realistic person, I know how I can make myself happier.
After working with a person for a long time, your habits will be more or less influenced by him. Although I am familiar with this perfume, but how I am not used to smell from other women.
A lot of people think that we don't have many friends in this business, but in fact, the killers have elementary school classmates.
People say that women are made of water, in fact, some men are the same. The average person's first love is in the teenage years, and I, may be more late, or more demanding it. 1995 May 30, I got my first love. It is like a store, I do not know how long I can stay, of course, the longer the better.
I've heard it said that everything expires. I don't know when her relationship with Johnny will expire, but I think it will be soon.
I don't know if I was too optimistic. Not long after that, I asked her to go to the game again, and she didn't show up. I always thought that her and JOHNNY's feelings will soon expire, but who knows, the fastest expiration, actually is me. I waited from opening to closing, and when the stadium turned off the lights, I knew she wasn't coming. I was starting to fall out of love. It won't happen, will it?
When I left, I asked him to take me home. It's been a long time since I've been on a motorcycle, and a long time since I've tried to get this close to someone, even though I know it's not a very long ride. I knew it wouldn't be long before I got off. But for a minute, I felt so warm.
"Spring Breakers" classic line -
Representatives of the "Spring Breakers" He Bao Rong will "how about, we start over" on the mouth, this is a very killing me, I have been with him for a long time, and in the middle of the split, but The first time I heard him say that, I would always go with him again.
Sometimes, the ears are more important than the eyes, many things with the ears to hear than with the eyes to see good, a person pretends to be happy, but the voice can not pretend. The first thing you need to do is to listen carefully and you'll know.
With him close to more, I can not hear anything, only hear their hearts beating, I do not know he can hear?
I always thought that I was not the same as He Bao Rong, so when I was lonely, all people are the same.
I finally came to the waterfall, I suddenly remembered He Bao Rong, I feel so sad, I always thought that standing here should be a pair.
In January 1997, I finally came to the end of the world, this is the last lighthouse in the south of South America, and then past that is the South Pole, suddenly I want to go home, although I am far away from them, but at that moment I feel very close.
Classic lines from "Fancy" -
Representing "Fancy" I hadn't thought about it either. I used to just wonder how the hell they got started. Now I know that a lot of things come without realizing it. I thought it was nothing, but I'm starting to worry about when your husband will come back. It's better if he doesn't come back. I know it's not right to think that way. Can you do me a favor? I want to be somewhat prepared.
If there is an extra ticket, would you like to come with me?
If there was one more ticket, would you take me with you?
The cherry blossoms only bloom for one season, and true love only comes once. If it's just loneliness, please don't love me.
I never thought that the original marriage is so complicated, thought a person do well on the line, but two people together, single is good enough to do.
Those faded years as if across a piece of dusty glass to see, can not catch ...... he has been nostalgic for the past, if he can break through that piece of dusty glass, he will go back to the years that have long been faded.
"2046" classic line -
The passengers who go to 2046 have only one purpose, which is to find the lost memories. Because in 2046, all things never change. No one knows if this is true, because no one has ever come back. I am the only one.
How long does it take for someone to leave 2046? No one knows. Some people can leave effortlessly, but for some it takes a long time, a lot of effort, and even bruises all over. I can no longer recall how long I have been on this train, and I am beginning to feel y lonely.
In the old days, when a person had an unspoken secret in his heart, he would run to the deep mountains, find a tree, dig a hole in the tree, tell the secret to that hole, and then seal it up with dirt, and the secret would never be known.
I once fell in love with someone, and then she left. I went to 2046 because I thought she was waiting for me there, but I couldn't find her. I wanted to know if she liked me or not, but I could never get an answer. Her answer was like a secret that no one would ever know.
All memories are damp.
I quickly adapted to this kind of life, although sometimes it is just a scene, although there are many just foggy love, but it does not matter, where so many lifetimes.
If one day you can forget the past, remember to come to me.
I once fell in love with a person, I want to know whether she likes me or not. I realized that this robot was a lot like her and I started trying to find the answer in her. I kept trying but she never responded. I thought of giving up when I was most disappointed, but soon I continued. Slowly I began to doubt myself, she did not respond to you may not be because it is slow to respond, perhaps because she has no feelings for you, to the end finally realized that some things can not be forced, and what I can do is to give up.
There is a joke that the 0 in the Arabic numerals bumped into 8, 0 said to 8, you think with a belt to the waist to gird up I will not recognize you? A few years after leaving Hong Kong, I really feel that she has changed from 0 to 8! So, I always want to unlock the belt in the middle of 8 ......
Sometimes I feel that the world has become a very funny place. I used to write novels only to show to a single person, but now I write novels to keep myself from starving and to show to all the boring people; In the past, two people with desire and passion desperately tried to avoid each other, and now two people with no desire and no passion desperately want to get close to each other ...... Maybe, only wine, can re-burn my passion. The first thing that you need to do is to get rid of all the stuff that you have to do to get rid of the stuff!
Because of the needs of the profession, I have been accustomed to waiting. However, I have never tried to wait for a person waiting for the feeling of heartache! Also never tried to spend dollars not to see the denomination but in centimeters to calculate the frame. In just two hours, the price of a glass of beer had risen from one centimeter of U.S. dollars to three centimeters, and I was already drinking slowly enough, but I still felt like I was drinking too fast because my friend hadn't shown up yet, and I didn't know how much longer I would have to wait for him! I began to fantasize that I was a very, very small ant, because, with the speed at which small ants drink, a glass of beer must be able to drink for a long, long time ......
I finally knew that he turned out to be a letter carrier. And I also learned that "letters", which I never cared about, will soon disappear from the world, and as I said, people will always find many ways to communicate with each other. Without letters, the government would abolish the post office, and the world would have no letter carrier, so the letter carrier's status would soon expire, just like the dollars in my suitcase. He told me that he was going to go to a place to take his chances, and it was said that the policy of that place would continue to be the same ......
I once tried to do another dream, however, I failed, and I finally realized that my dream only belonged to the one who had left! I also realized that having a dream turned out to be a painful thing!
That day, he asked me if I was willing to go with him if he bought an extra ticket, and I refused. In fact, I am how much I want to go with him ah, but I do not know why, the chip in my brain but I issued a refusal of the command ......
In fact, love is a temporal, recognize too early or too late are not, if I know her in another time or space, this ending may be different.
From her I understand a truth, as long as you yourself do not give up, you will always have a chance