I'm in a melancholy mood at the moment.
I just watched a film called '2046' by one of my favourite directors Wong Kar Wai, who did the films 'Chungking Express' and 'Fallen Angels', absolutely brilliant films, which you have to watch, if you haven't done so already
It's a sequel of sorts to a film called 'In the Mood For Love' which is about two people who fall in love with each other but belong to other people. Because they feel so much for each other their passion is always beneath the surface which means that every touch and every whisper to each other is all the more powerful.
Of course this is not meant to be, and they have to leave each other. '2046' is about what happens to him afterwards, and how this heartbreak contributes to his future love affairs.
The film is difficult to describe but I'll try anyway. It seems as this man Chow Mo Wan (played by Tony Leung) is trapped between the past and the future. He starts an affair with Bai Ling (Ziti Zhang, you'll know her from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the future film adaptation of Memoirs Of a Geisha), but from the start we know it is doomed because he can only fall properly in love in the past. He had this in the past, but because it was crushed it seems he is refusing to go back to it. So he destroys her by treating her like a whore who is not allowed to even sleep in his own room. He refuses to give her his heart even though I was willing him to give it to her. She is the right woman but at the wrong time for him.
As well as this he meets a woman called Wang Jing Wen (played by Faye Wong, who i would describe as a Chinese Elf lady). She's in love with a Japanese man, but her father refuses to bless the union so it seems like this relationship is not meant to be either. However, Chow Mo Wan decides to pass letters between them in the hope of reuniting them. Doing this though he begins to fall in love with this woman, I suspect doing so because she is unattainable.
He writes about this feelings in a novel called '2046', a story set in the future where he identifies himself in a Japanese man who is on a train leaving a place called '2046' a place where nothing ever changes, and which also happens to be the door number of where Chow Mo Wan met these two women in the past. He falls in love with one of the Androids who serves him (who looks like the woman that he has fallen in love with), and he declares his love for her. -But there is no response and he tries to work out why this is so. He thinks it might be because she is degrading due to time, but this is not so. She is in love with another.
I've tried to describe this the best I can but I can only advise you to watch it. Some of you may find it boring and longwinded but you have to understand the director's intentions. As I'm getting older you start to think about this more. Love is all a matter of chance and whoever you will be with can be changed by a split second of fate. All I can say is I hope their that fate takes it's course and I find the right person at the right time. It's so so easy for people to find the right person at the wrong time or the wrong person at the right time.
I just watched a film called '2046' by one of my favourite directors Wong Kar Wai, who did the films 'Chungking Express' and 'Fallen Angels', absolutely brilliant films, which you have to watch, if you haven't done so already
It's a sequel of sorts to a film called 'In the Mood For Love' which is about two people who fall in love with each other but belong to other people. Because they feel so much for each other their passion is always beneath the surface which means that every touch and every whisper to each other is all the more powerful.
Of course this is not meant to be, and they have to leave each other. '2046' is about what happens to him afterwards, and how this heartbreak contributes to his future love affairs.
The film is difficult to describe but I'll try anyway. It seems as this man Chow Mo Wan (played by Tony Leung) is trapped between the past and the future. He starts an affair with Bai Ling (Ziti Zhang, you'll know her from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the future film adaptation of Memoirs Of a Geisha), but from the start we know it is doomed because he can only fall properly in love in the past. He had this in the past, but because it was crushed it seems he is refusing to go back to it. So he destroys her by treating her like a whore who is not allowed to even sleep in his own room. He refuses to give her his heart even though I was willing him to give it to her. She is the right woman but at the wrong time for him.
As well as this he meets a woman called Wang Jing Wen (played by Faye Wong, who i would describe as a Chinese Elf lady). She's in love with a Japanese man, but her father refuses to bless the union so it seems like this relationship is not meant to be either. However, Chow Mo Wan decides to pass letters between them in the hope of reuniting them. Doing this though he begins to fall in love with this woman, I suspect doing so because she is unattainable.
He writes about this feelings in a novel called '2046', a story set in the future where he identifies himself in a Japanese man who is on a train leaving a place called '2046' a place where nothing ever changes, and which also happens to be the door number of where Chow Mo Wan met these two women in the past. He falls in love with one of the Androids who serves him (who looks like the woman that he has fallen in love with), and he declares his love for her. -But there is no response and he tries to work out why this is so. He thinks it might be because she is degrading due to time, but this is not so. She is in love with another.
I've tried to describe this the best I can but I can only advise you to watch it. Some of you may find it boring and longwinded but you have to understand the director's intentions. As I'm getting older you start to think about this more. Love is all a matter of chance and whoever you will be with can be changed by a split second of fate. All I can say is I hope their that fate takes it's course and I find the right person at the right time. It's so so easy for people to find the right person at the wrong time or the wrong person at the right time.
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that film sounds amazing...i'll definitely try to get hold of a copy. do you know whether there is the option to listen to it in chinese? you're right about the right time/wrong person, wrong time/right person thing. i'm in the same place as you right now on that front and i firmly believe in the power of fate too.
are you going to germany this new year?
i hope you've been really well ash
xx