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best movie i've ever seen.

Best movie ever!

Blistering performances.

The first story told me to not hang on to somebody for along time after splitting up. It happens for a reason. Live afterwards and keep moving on. If you're on the right track then you'll find someone better than what you had before. The second story, I can't believe how amazing someone could change drastically for someone who they love. Imagine a fantastic free spirited woman turns into a stewardess and that police man turns into a sandwich store owner. But in the end to have a relationship we always need two people compromising each other like they did. Overall this is a very fun movie!

Writer / Director Kar-Wai Wong's Chungking Express is surprising on many levels. While this is a simple Bachelors looking for love story at the outset Tony Chiu-Wai Leung (Cop 663) and Takeshi Kaneshiro(He Zhiwu, Cop 223). The females -Faye Wong (Faye), Brigitte Lin Woman in blonde wig (as Ching-hsia Lin), and Valerie Chow (Air Hostess) are all interesting company. The story weaves through the Chungking Express restaurant. The strange thing is the using of the Mamas & Papas California Dreaming as a theme relating to all these relationships.4 Years before The Blair Witch Project, this movie employs the same filming technique. The other surprise to me was the visuals Director Wong used in this movie. There are amazing visuals that are even more advanced than Blair Witch would be 5 years later. The way the director does chase scenes, jogging scenes, and uses mirrors and unique camera angles in this film make it a unique visual experience.Visually, this might be the most under appreciated film around. There are visuals here that would still be miles ahead of the CGI stuff that are now nowhere near this level. Between the outstanding visuals and a fine acting job by the cast, and a better than the average film by a mile.There are comedy elements which can make the viewer smile, though I have to admit I cringed when one actor ate 30 cans of sliced pineapple in one sitting. While I like Pineapple, for me this is a bit extreme sacrifice to make because your love has gone. I understand the Driector had 2 other projects going around the same time as this film. Still, the script is a different sort of romance and the visuals he employs in the film are simply amazing. Filmed on location in Hong Kong, and look for the American Corporate Logos in this film.

Wong Kar-Wai's most acclaimed and certainly widespread film, helped by showings to film classes everywhere, Chungking Express is a meandering meditation of loneliness in urban Hong Kong. Told in two separate stories of love, life and loneliness (a third branching off into a separate film, Fallen Angel), they follow two cops dealing with a break-up and a new love interest.The first, shorter and weaker segment follows a pineapple-obsessed cop falling for a blonde-wigged heroin smuggler. The second watches a depressed cop's ignorance as a girl with a crush revitalises his life.The first segment is certainly a visual marvel, and Wong Kar-Wai (alongside cinematographers Christopher Doyle & Andrew Lau, the latter of Infernal Affairs fame) blazes through with a frenzy of action in a confined space. The blur, the colours and the contrast are impressive. It's also a poetic segment, but ultimately falls short, emotionally hollow without developed characters to anchor it. One could suppose that your reaction to this segment will depend on your appreciation of the themes and feelings of the main character.One must spend more time considering the second, which more than makes up for the first ones failings. It adds a wry wit to the -better- romantic undertones, two incredibly charismatic leads (Tony Leung and Faye Wong), and one of the best repeated uses of a single song ever. California Dreamin' will forever for me be associated with this film. More importantly, the second part has a heart, a cute, quirky romance that bubbles, and the incredulity ebbs at its sweetness.The soundtrack as a whole is full of excellent choices, though 'full' may over-exaggerate, as it's better seen as a few choice selections being repeated. Nevertheless, through the cinematography and the soundtrack, the film develops a dreamlike atmosphere, which is probably its greatest asset. The film keeps itself firmly uprooted in the clouds, and it certainly drifts.Chungking Express is a unique film, and certainly not one for all occasions. It isn't designed to blow one away. One drifts through it, then thinks about it after its over. As a technical craft, it's a masterpiece. As a poetic piece of storytelling, its a bit more hit and miss, but it hits more than it misses.

Two stories, two lovelorn cops, two objects of desire: one a big-time heroin dealer in deep trouble with her boss after the cargo disappears, the other a seriously flaky take-out waitress who inadvertently gets hold of the keys to her admirer's apartment, all shot in a breathless kaleidoscope of color and hand-held camera work to create a mesmerizing portrait of Hong Kong in the 1990s.With the constant use of "California Dreamin" and "Dreams", do you think this is a film about dreams? In some ways, it is, and in other ways it is not.You have to give this film credit. Besides looking great and just being an overall wonderful movie, there are little things that really stand out in the writing. The "May 1" can idea, with the connection between birthdays and expiration... so clever.