Tuesday, September 27, 2011
TWO COPS TWO GIRLS
Today's film was directed by Wong Kar-Wi and features my man Takeshi Kaneshiro along with Tony Leung. A double treat.
Chung Hing sam lam / Chung King Express (1994)
Kar-wi directed yesterday's film. Similar but not the same.
In this one, two cops fall into "like" with a woman and the relationships become "complicated".
Here again it is not the plot. It is the whole production which moves at a rapid pace with great camera work and, mostly handheld, great city at night scenes.
The stories do not meet each other. So the film is a small anthology. Similar ideas are explored. The fact that these guys are cops seems to be irrelevant except that it keeps them up late and in unsavory scenes and situations.
Kar-wi is compared to Godard. This is a new approach to Hong Kong made films. Modern, indeterminate, situational versus story lines.
I enjoyed it. Once is enough. I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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