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...about the future," the film's narration says of Chow, "but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention: to recapture their lost memories." Chow Mo-wan, then, could be Wong Kar-wai, or indeed any other writer who becomes fascinated by his own creations; he plays with them, tries to discard them, is haunted by them as by lost memories. The movie goes further: it suggests that, once they are born in a writer's imagination, these fictions, these women...
...Wong's films are a snap to decode for anyone familiar with the tropes of classic movie romance. Consider just three. Music: a slow samba can seduce two strangers into moving to each other's emotional time, and 2046 sways to Perfidia and Quiz?s, Quiz?s, Quiz?s. Cigarettes: everyone puffs away pensively; the fumes wrap the characters in a retro-chic warmth as they dedicate themselves to that mesmeric movie rite, the sacrament of smoking. The kiss: 2046 has one of the great ones, between Chow and Su. He stands her against a wall and presses mouth to mouth. He moves...
...mature into a sigh?is to direct our glance to all the fabulous women in the cast. The camera, mainly manned by Christopher Doyle, prowls around the women like a lover in the first flush of passion. It captures and caresses the actresses' radiance: Lau's bold sensuality, Faye Wong's elfin resiliency, Gong Li's fragile hauteur. Zhang, in a panoply of pouts, flirtations and surrendering smiles, is at her most ravishing and nuanced, especially when swathed in the spectacular cheongsams of costumer designer (and editor and production designer) William Chang...
...This year is still relatively young, and Wong's romantic epic, in the version shown at Cannes, is not quite finished. Still, we say that?because of its passion, its craft, its belief in the grace and pain of love?2046 is the film...
Sadly, the “Gay or Asian?” article is not so much an anomaly as it is part of an alarming pattern of discrimination against Asian Americans. Abercrombie & Fitch previously sold shirts that read “Two Wongs can make it white” and displayed a stereotypical caricature of two “Wong Brothers” running a laundry service. AsianWeek.com reported how Shaquille O’Neal cracked racial jokes, repeatedly singled out Houston Rockets player Yao Ming for mockery and even threats of violence, and told a reporter...