Tuesday, October 11, 2011
TIME, TEARS, MEMORY
Today's film
Wong Kar-wai's eighth film. (I am not watching them in sequence)
Two parallel stories. One (the 2046 referred to) written by the man who has a series of failed relationships with women which uses his memories as the basis of the almost non existent plot and the real life more or less in the early 60s.
Wong's strength is not in the stories and traditional narrative. This is cinema not literature. So you get to watch and deduce and wonder at the deep imagery.
2046 is a destination on a train that moves so fast that you can be there now but you can never return. All you know is what you know and you are the prisoner of your own life. I think, repeating the same actions.
2046 includes a different version of yourself and the women are now androids whose emotions are in slow motion.
I think because the story never ends.
The writer's 2046 form is trying to come back to the present.
And so on.
If I say "I think" a lot it is because this is so stimulating that it stays with you. Memory. Over Time. And the many ways that tears are presented.
You gotta see it. Tony Leung (!) is the guy now and Takuya Kimura as the 2046 guy. I will give this a 5 out of Netflix5 because I will see it again along with another film that it is supposed to be a sequel to but really is not. Fun, huh?
Wong Kar-wai is great!
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