She is actually a ruthless drug runner who has been betrayed by her partner and is on the run. He meets a mysterious woman (Lin) dressed in a plain brown trenchcoat, sunglasses, and striking blond hair. So I don't have any left for tears." Even though he hurts inside, he still goes on and still looks for love.
The Cop 223 observes, "Having a broken heart, I'd go jogging. Anyone who's agonized over a failed relationship can immediately identify with his refusal to let go and to believe that there is a glimmer of hope that things will work out.
He even buys thirty cans of pineapples that expire before May - his birthday and name of his ex-girlfriend - and proceeds to eat them. He's obsessed with the time they had together and the time they now spend apart. The first one focuses on the aforementioned police officer and his attempt to cope with the recent breakup with his girlfriend. 57 hours later, I fall in love with this woman." Chungking Express is comprised of two intersecting stories. Wong uses a freeze-frame to capture the first moment of contact and the cop says in a voiceover, "At the closest point, we're just 0.01 cm apart from each other. Cop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) accidentally jostles a woman (Brigitte Lin). Wong's hopelessly romantic notion of timing is apparent right from the start of the movie.
One person is looking for love while the other is not and by the time the other figures out what they want, it is too late. The characters in Chungking Express never quite connect romantically with each other because their timing is never quite right. Writer-director Wong Kar-Wai is acutely aware of how time features so prominently in relationships - as the old adage goes, timing is everything. The camera lingers on close-ups of clocks and the expiration date on cans of food. Not only are its characters consciously aware of and thinking about time passing, but the film itself plays around with the slowing down and speeding up of time. "If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries." - Cop 223Ĭhungking Express (1994) is a film obsessed with time.
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