An Amazing film By Wong Kar Wai that left me with a lot to think about, not only in terms of the content, and what it says, but also, with the way it says.
Throughout the movie, I felt an incredible setting up of mood, The shots were colourful, the camera movement free and unrestrained, and although my education in film tried to make me think the music was overused, but i dont think that is a valid point.
the narrative as i like to think about it, displayed a continuity of idea and mood rather than a continuity of Action which a classical narrative would emphasize. Certain shots lasted for a blink of an eye, but were still there and had there place, although there is no narrative logic to them.(The girl flying paper planes out of her apartment comes to mind).Their was no on the surface logic to the shift from the first story to the second, apart from the fact that both of them were policemen's stories. But it did make sense, and i had no issue with it. It just highlights the importance of expression in my head. Till now, most of my film work has been constrained by logic, narrative logic, of " this happened in the last sequence, so how can this happen now?"
Although logic is an equally important part of a good story, after all its a communicative medium, but it is by know means superior to intuition or at times, whim.
the movie created a dystopic world, but as i had been thinking, it left you with something positive yet negative at the same time, most things were gray, most relationships were grey.
It left me with a bittersweet feeling.
There are certain things i can definitely say about the movie, But love stories of two cops, the kind of synopsys that imdb would use, is not even the tip of the iceberg. There were connotations to all sorts of things, people,emotions, relationships, cities, work, love that it became much more than the sum of it's shots and actions.
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