Si ce jeu du chat et de la souris est déjà nettement plus mignon -certains diront poétique ?- vu que le flic déconvenu et plaqué par son hôtesse de l'air parle aux objets- il n'en reste pas moins pataud et trop chiant pour espérer convaincre. comme un leitmotiv romanesque d'une lourdeur sans commune mesure. Cette musique pourrie est d'ailleurs répétée à l'envi et quasiment en boucle et vrille bien les nerfs comme il faut. La seconde histoire voit un flic incarné par l'excellent et déjà connu Tony Leung, poursuivi à l'insu de son ignorance par l'employée d'une gargotte qui n'écoute que de la musique de merde. le plus chinois des acteurs japonais, Takeshi Kaneshiro ! c'était encore un débutant à l'époque. La première histoire se borne à nous faire suivre la Miss "lunettes de soleil" qui tire la gueule et trafique de la poudre avec des immigrés indiens avant de se faire elle-même poursuivre par un jeune premier qu'on met un certain temps à reconnaître. Surtout que seule la moitié du film est regardable, à savoir la seconde histoire. Avec le temps, en vérité ça ne s'est pas arrangé et ce Chungking sonne bien creux et encore plus bidon qu'auparavant, ses défauts nous sautant au visage de façon extrêmement flagrante. Surtout que seule la moitié du Je l'avais vu il y a longtemps et j'avais trouvé ça cucul et concon.
Je l'avais vu il y a longtemps et j'avais trouvé ça cucul et concon. Rather, they are explorations of love and what it does to a person once they feel it and how they feel when it is ripped out of their clutches. Both this and In the Mood for Love (the other Wong Kar-Wai film I have seen), both have this quality that make you think they will be a romance film and certainly play out like a romance film should, but they are anything but romance films. A thoroughly melancholy and moving experience, Chungking Express will make you feel its characters loneliness in a very human way that will more than likely break your heart. The camera does this here, but certainly not always. Essentially, it is supposed to put you into the scene.
Hand-held cameras can be quite nauseating and annoying when noticeable, yet Chungking Express deftly avoids these trappings and instead utilizes the style effectively. Additionally, the film is just simply very well shot. This is very much the case with Chungking Express. It is always lovely when a director's style matches some element of the film and offers its own thematic elements. As the city and even their lives (as cops) run around hectically, their love life and home life remain empty and filled with solitude. The end result is a kinetic and chaotic experience that highlights the loneliness of its protagonists. Stylistically, the film uses a ton of hand-held camera, if not solely hand-held. As such, it is an incredibly cold film, but not emotionless. This is not a romance film, rather it is one about lost love and the pain it can cause. Wong Kar-wai's film may feel as though it is occurring at a distance from the audience, but lines such as these make the film realize that there is no distance at all.
Instead, it makes the experience feel incredibly real and authentic. Lines such as these will overcome inadequacies in the film as a whole, as they transcend the medium. For example, one describes how a girl who wished him a happy birthday will live on in his memories forever, only to then wonder when a memory expires. With incredibly written dialogue, Chungking Express brings its two lonely men to life with lines that absolutely touch your soul. Showing how one can be distressed and left hurt by looking to the past and waiting for it to change, Chungking Express features characters that are so incredibly real, the emotion they communicate cannot be ignored. Showing how one can be distressed and left hurt by looking to the past and waiting for it to change, Chungking Express features A truly sad and depressing film, Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express is an exploration of loneliness, focused in on two men looking for love in the past in Hong Kong. A truly sad and depressing film, Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express is an exploration of loneliness, focused in on two men looking for love in the past in Hong Kong.
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