International Movies

It is always a delight to watch a Wong kar wai movies. The energy his movie's exhibit is so great, and there is no way you cannot be swept away by it. This one is his best. Every scene in the movie is different and there are so many things to look for in every scene, the camera angles, the editing, the objects etc etc and if you are a goddard fan, you will absolutely love wong kar wai.The movie has those jump cuts, the film noir styles, juke boxes, references to popular movies etc.

This is a story that was originally conceived for his other movie, chungking express but later dropped. The story is again about love, pain with different threads running along parallely and criss crossing each other at times.The characters are similar to ones in chungking express and his usual stars are there. Takeshi Kaneshiro as a mute guy who breaks into different shops to sell stuffs is funny in the movie. But this is not a movie that you would like for its story, but for its pace, for its self conscious cinema styles.

The movie is a celebration. Every frame in this movie creates a tension, a difference, with the lightings and the skewed angles. You keep seeing rooms lit with red lights, dark places, narrow alleys, the night lights, the roads, the late night city, subways etc and then the camera gives a fish eye view, a wet lens view, blurs the background, takes you on a ride with the hero in his bike, extreme close ups and unusual angles combines with some good editing makes this movie an absolute delight to watch.