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DEEP DIVE - Chungking Express
🕑 Added 2025-07-18 19:13:35 +0000 UTCWelcome to DEEP DIVE Film Club Vol. 3 - WORLDS APART.
In Episode 1, we travel through the sleepless and kaleidoscopic vision of Wong Kar Wai's Hong Kong. Here, people may never meet one another, or may never know just how similar their stories are. This is the story of love and longing in Chungking Express.
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Francesco Yip
However Wong Kar Wai was born in Shanghai, not British Hong Kong. He immgranted from Shanghai. In the book of Wong Kar Wai cinematic world*, it was stated that one of the reason that his movies are always about longing because Wong Kar Wai himself feels out of place in Hong Kong as immigrant. *I'm not sure if that book exists an English version, so I just direct translate the meaning of the Cantonese title
Francesco Yip
Hi, I am from Hong Kong and Cantonese is my mother language. I think the dialogues in Chungking Express feel pretty natural to me. However it gets way too melodramatic during In the mood for Love. Just my personal opinion.
