Far Eastern cinema has always had a theme that touches the human spirit in its category. It is in a category that cannot be compared with a classic Hollywood movie, whether with action movies, romantic movies or dramas. While some films push us to deep thoughts, some have the power to question for days. After watching the Oldboy movie, I remember that I could not easily come to myself. The films of Wong Kar-Wai may not be making his audience look that much, but in the journey of emotion he has established, it is certain that one questioned himself.
There are some directors that you cannot judge in a single category or in a single movie. One of them in Kar-Wai. During his filmography, he was not only in one category, but with his own lens and reflecting emotions, he produced works in as many areas as possible. Apart from a semi-fantastic movie like 2046, he is a director who has the colors to transfer a classic like In The Mood For Love to the big screen. So what makes Wong Kar-Wai Kar-Wai? Why is the Chungking Express movie among the top five favorite films of a director who makes it successful in different fields like Tarantino?
Nowadays, while arthouse films leave the main idea or the message to be released to the viewers, Wong Kar-Wai makes the audience feel what it is, and drags it out of the message he wants to give you. The director, who likes to tell his films about a sevi, also does not use scripts during the production stages. He wants the players to progress in improvisation by presenting the general lines of the subject.
This style of the director helps some of the actors he works with, while others help him overcome himself or even get caught up in the subject of the movie. For example, Ziyi Zhang, with whom he worked in the movie 2046. Ziyi Zhang, one of the most successful and popular actresses in China, explains that the director she has difficulty working with is Wong Kar-Wai.
The reason is that the director has no limits on the basis of the scenario and leaves the improvisation to the actor completely. While this technique is challenging for disciplined, book-fitting players, Thanks to Wong Kar-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro is able to discover his talent and interest in acting, making his transition from singing to acting and signing important masterpieces in acting.
It provides the audience with a way of expressing the emotions that people experience within themselves and the methods of dealing with them, rather than the effect that emotions have on people. In this way, everyone who watches can find a piece of himself in the movie Kar-Wai, and can personalize himself. The director, who emphasizes that love or emotions are actually one person, thus saves the audience from the feeling of loneliness. Maybe he does not leave the whole word to the audience, but he hesitates to limit his stories, leaving the end of his films to the audience’s imagination.
Another eccentric feature of Wong Kar-Wai films is that the characters in their films are linked to each other in different films. Although he doesn’t shoot his movies like a series, in fact, a character in every movie is in the previous or next movie. Thus, “what was the choice of this character?” The director answers the question to us in his films.
If you still haven’t seen one of Wong Kar-Wai movies, I recommend watching In The Mood For Love, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels or 2046. I leave the promotional video of Fallen Angels, one of the best known and not so well known films here. Although the film is not a sequel to Chungking Express, it actually describes what happened in the sequel to the story of He Zhiwu, one of the main characters of the Chungking Express movie, played by Takeshi Kaneshiro.
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