/Jane:
The great thing about watching a film a day, is that I can always look forward to having that one unique moment that every good movie brings. Sometimes it’s a wow, sometimes a laugh or smile, but there’s always some genuine moment that comes across and I thought I’d start sharing more of them on here instead of just tweeting about them:
I finally upgraded my old copy of Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express to the Criterion Collection’s version, and got to relive this great film all over again. I feel that WKW might be the best artists EVER at effectively capturing and expressing emotion. It’s not just his style or stories that provoke feeling, it’s that his characters always embody a unique emotion to themselves. Most of the time in WKW’s films that emotion is a sense of melancholy regret, but his great use of pop star Faye Wong is pure infatuation.
The character of Faye in Chungking Express as the voyeur girlfriend to Officer 663, (Tony Leung) is warm and curious, a little sappy but not cliche at all. When I said that she embodies infatuation I don’t just mean that she is lovesick with the officer but that she only displays those characteristics: curiosity, fear, embarrassment, longing, naivety, and compassion. I think most will remember Wong as the sad girl from 2046, but in my mind she’s never been better than in this film and I would put Chungking Express itself as WKW’s second best film (In The Mood for Love being an absolute masterpiece) and one of the greatest films of the 90?s.
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