film, Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong cinema, romance, memory There’s a moment about halfway through 2046 when Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) sits in a dim noodle shop, narrating: “In the year 2046, nothing changes. No one knows if that’s true or not, because no one who ever went there has come back… except one.”
You don’t watch 2046 for plot. You watch it for the feeling of missing someone you haven’t lost yet, or holding onto a love that already left ten years ago. It’s a film about the stories we tell ourselves so we don’t have to say: I’m still not over it. 2046 by wong kar-wai
★★★★½ (or, 10/10 sad train rides) film, Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong cinema, romance, memory
In the Mood for Love , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Chungking Express , crying in the dark. It’s a film about the stories we tell
That “except one” is the hook—and the heartbreak—of Wong Kar-wai’s aching, gorgeous, and deliberately frustrating masterpiece.