Story One has us presented with a hapless Romeo of sorts, and a femme fatale of a more realistic world and how the seedy underbelly of the city throws them together. Beyond that though the stories are as different from each other as night and day in tone, as well as outcomes, that nonetheless leaves each character involved changed for the better. Both of these men are unsuccessfully moving past recent breakups with women who have already moved on quite easily. Commenting on the brief encounters one makes in every day life and how when you may least expect, but need the most, a connection can be made.Įach of the stories share similar traits, such as the male leads both being Hong Kong cops that spend time at the Midnight Express snack bar. The film is split into two stories which cross and overlap in the most subtle of ways with small details that weave them together. Before that masterpiece came other tales, and in possibly one of his more unabashedly upbeat films we have the love stories that intersect in 1994’s Chungking Express. Many reading this have seen, or hopefully are at least aware of his best known work – In The Mood for Love (2000).
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She asks him where he wants the destination to be, to which he replies, “Wherever you will take me.Wong Kar-wai is a true professional when it comes to presenting romance on the screen. As Faye is about to leave, he presents the boarding pass, wrinkled and water-stained, and she writes him a new one.
He asks her to stay for the grand opening, and asks her to send him a postcard if she leaves. She finds that the man has bought the snack bar and is converting it into a restaurant. She leaves him a boarding pass drawn on a paper napkin dated one year later.įaye, now a flight attendant, returns to Hong Kong. Faye does not arrive, and the snack bar owner, her cousin, goes to the restaurant to tell him that Faye has left for the US state of California. He finds Faye coming to his apartment and realizes that she likes him he arranges a date at a restaurant named California. Faye uses the keys to repeatedly enter the man’s apartment to clean and redecorate. She learns he is on his day off and leaves a letter for him with the snack bar owner containing a set of keys to the officer’s apartment.įaye tells him of the letter, but he delays reading it and asks the snack bar to keep it for him. One day, the flight attendant visits the store and waits for the man. He visits his usual snack food store where he collides with a new staff member, Faye.Īnother police officer is also dealing with a breakup with a flight attendant. Qiwu goes jogging and receives a message from her on his pager wishing him a happy birthday. She leaves in the morning and shoots the drug baron who set her up. He shines her shoes before he leaves her sleeping on the bed. However, she is exhausted and falls asleep in a hotel room, leaving him to watch old films and order food. On 1 May, Qiwu approaches the woman in the blonde wig at the Bottoms Up Club. Meanwhile, a woman in a blonde wig tries to survive in the drug underworld after a smuggling operation goes sour.
Every day he buys a tin of pineapple with an expiration date of 1 May, because May enjoyed pineapples. He chooses to wait until the month of May before moving on.
Taiwan-raised cop He Qiwu is dumped by his girlfriend May on 1 April.
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