It is not the appearance of 'Hong Kong themes'. There's an influential 1997 essay on the topic, "The New Hong Kong Cinema and the Déjà Disparu" by Ackbar Abbas:
Interpretations like these were popular at the time. One one hand, it seems clear that both people love each other, yet, the girl is going away to fly somewhere else. Maybe if the message wasn't deleted, then police man #2 and the stewardness would have gotten back together. Near the end we see police man #2 interacting with the stewardess and it felt like a reminder of what could have been. Faye Wong deleting the message from the stewardess felt rather cruel. Two points that were unusually depressing were: It felt like everyone was lonely all the time. I read a few posts about the movie on Reddit, but they didn't help too much in clarifying my understanding.Įveryone said the ending scene was amazing, and while I think I understood it, its lack of closure left me confused/desiring more. However, I didn't "get it" (maybe because I've never been in a serious romantic relationship). I just watched Chungking Express because I saw it was on a bunch of Redditor's top 10 romance films lists. A Janus Films release.įor in-theater screenings, please review the FLC in-theater safety and health policies here.Preface: None of this is meant to insult Chungking Express, I'm just confused on how to interpret it.
It was supervised and approved by Wong Kar Wai. This 4K digital restoration was undertaken from the 35mm original camera negative by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata, Jet Tone, One Cool, and 3H Sound Studio. Anything goes in the filmmaker’s gloriously shot and utterly unexpected charmer, which cemented the sex appeal of its gorgeous stars and forever turned canned pineapple and The Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” into tokens of longing.
Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express takeout restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of ’90s cinema and the film that made Wong an instant icon.
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