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Having little prior knowledge of Wong Kar-wai, I watched this at university this week. I’ll be honest, I had no idea what it was about. At first, I thought it was a cop movie set on a train, then I thought it was going to be a romance movie set on a train. As it turns out, ‘Chungking Express’ has nothing to do with trains.
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t that impressed with this film. I think it was partly because I didn’t know what to expect and thus found the movie a little jarring, but there are other reasons too. My main gripe is that the story begins by following two characters who appear to be the central ones, but part way through, the focus suddenly switches to two different characters. I know that some people may be a fan of this, but personally, I didn’t like it.
I also felt as though ‘Chungking Express’ grounded nearly to a halt in its third third, with repetitive scenes that became very boring and didn’t really move the story forwards. I thought the featuring of ‘California Dreamin’, by the Mamas & The Papas, was brilliant at first, but then became vastly overplayed and really started to get on my nerves.
I think a lot of people love this film, and I can appreciate why. It was far from bad, there were elements I enjoyed, and I loved the ending. But on the whole, it just wasn’t for me 😞
In my opinion, ‘Chungking Express’ is…
𝐅𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥
I give the movie…
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