Synopsis
What a difference a day makes
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
1994 ‘重慶森林’ Directed by Wong Kar-wai
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Hong Kong Express, Чунгкингский экспресс, Chung Hing sam lam, 恋する惑星, 중경삼림, Trùng Khánh sâm lâm
I love the stupidity of holding on to what has moved on.
I love the smallness of the biggest emotion we know.
I love the pain that doesn't seem to leave but you know somehow it will.
I love seeing love.
And I love how Wong Kar-Wai manages to capture all of the above and mold it into a piece of visual poetry, instilled with the melancholy, pain, joy, frivolity and promise our species' most powerful four letter word possesses.
Even in isolation, Wong Kar-Wai manages to find love in two completely different tales, that pass within 0,01 cm of each other briefly giving the other a glance of desperate recognition. Chungking Express is about our need for companionship, the…
I always love films about people feeling...lost. It reminds me of who I am. There's this feeling of trying to find a connection to something but there's a struggle as you don't know how to work that connection. That's what I think Wong Kar-Wai pulls off so well with this film. He creates these parallel stories of people who want to connect but are too lost to do anything about it. This is the true work of a master and I can already tell Wong Kar-Wai will be a great director to explore in the future. I kind of adore this movie if you haven't already realized.
I have this idea of "Shoegaze Cinema". It's filmmaking evocative of the same type of mood that music from bands like My Bloody Valentine created. This is exactly the sort of thing that comes to mind when I ponder the idea of that genre existing in cinema
I first saw Chunking Express a year or so ago. It was my first Wong Kar-Wai. While I liked it, particularly the second story, I wasn’t blown away. Shortly after that I saw 2046, and fell in love with Wong Kar-Wai. Going through the Days of Being Wild / In the Mood for Love / 2046 trilogy only cemented this emotion. My wife bought the Criterion Blu of Chunking, so, we thought we’d give it a re-watch before further exploring the Wong filmography.
What can I say, I was giddy with happiness. What didn’t impress or move me the first time certainly did on this re-watch. I felt absolutely transfixed.
What I noticed in this viewing was the emphasis on…
for my 22nd birthday, i knew i had to watch something that changed everything; myself, my perspective of the world around me, how i view cinema, the kinds of films i only dream of making in terms of quality...few, if any, have rattled me like Chungking Express. its why i found the idea of a rewatch so incredibly daunting. its all so much. i cry at every little thing in this movie. every single time california dreamin plays. when He Qiwu is watching movies in the hotel room with the woman whos asleep. the water stained boarding pass. the way dreams by the cranberries kicks off the ending. i hope every film lover has that special director for them that seems to fundamentally understand you.
anyways, that was corny (but i meant it) and this was just as painful as it was that first summer. but its nice to feel things again for my birthday.
you never know if it's going to rain or be sunny. one of the all-time great Vibes movies
I wanted to like it....so badly....but I didn’t care about anything that was happening.
all the leaves are brown ᵃˡˡ ᵗʰᵉ ˡᵉᵃᵛᵉˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᵇʳᵒʷⁿ
and the sky is grey ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ˢᵏʸ ᶦˢ ᵍʳᵉʸ
love dies at dawn, - a movie meant to be watched alone at 3 am.
I wish I could say my biggest takeaway wasn't "Takeshi Kaneshiro is hot as hell" but I cant because that's my biggest takeaway . (I much preferred his plotline and the first hour of the movie in general) BUT I really adored the tangible loneliness of feeling lost in a big city. one to revisit (alone. at 3 am.)
pra alegria do dhiego finalmente assisti mas não vou admitir pra ele que adorei pra ele não ficar se achando
‘Where do you want to go?’
‘Wherever you want to take me’
This was beautiful
I shouldn’t have watched it while feeling deeply lonely
I hope I die in my sleep
im obssesed with the camerawork in wong kar wai’s movies. so fucking good. i wish i saw this before fallen angels. that last scene omg. love you for 10,000 years will live in my mind now.
J'ai pas 100% accroché, mais merci à ce film de m'avoir appris que le meilleur moyen d'aborder une fille, c'est de lui parler d'ananas
Every shot was a shot to my heart. The actors are so good and charming. Perfectly atmospheric, romantic and lonely.
Billy Bibbić 195 films
As a result of not being able to find any complete, detailed or concise list of all film movements on…
Drew 1,000 films
This is the January 2021 edition of the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? list of the 1,000 greatest films.
Current…
Dave Vis 250 films
Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage…
Peter Stanley 1,235 films
All the films from all the editions, including those subsequently removed, presently totalling 1235. An easy way of seeing how…
Darren Carver-Balsiger 126 films
Pop songs blaring, odd cinematography, fast editing. Or long takes, classical music, monochrome visuals. This is a list of films…
Hungkat 692 films
Essential movies for lonely people out there (like me) if you want to feel something in this big big world.…
holli 300 films
movies without a strong central plot or a typical three act structure, where instead it's mostly just characters wandering around,…
bel 135 films
this is just purely a list of movies that have impacted me and have made me reflect and change my…
Tobias Andersen 8,774 films
Rules: Generate a number (from 1 to x) via: www.random.org
See how many number of films there are in the…
Josh 1,364 films
Updated: February 25, 2021 Created: January 13, 2013 View More Lists Follow Me
——————————————————————— CRITERION CHALLENGE 2021 ➔ ———————————————————————
The…
Tori 🐛 524 films
For more international film goodness check out Letterboxd’s Top 250 International Films and if you like (popular not-Russian movie) watch…
SilentDawn 76 films