Chungking Express

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Summary: A sudden blast of energy.
Review: Wong Kar Wai's previous effort "The days of being wild" was a film which actully gave some warning about the CK Express in advance. CK Express is a film that opens with high energy camera shots and continues to blast its way with an MTV style atmosphere with all the necessary camera work and wisely chosen tunes. Story (or beter, the stories) are built on main characters loneliness and one's search for salvation which will be brought by a very very interesting soul mate for a short period of time. Brigitte Lin was already a famous actress who successfully portrayed a drug smuggler with a blond wig, trying to make her way out of the mess caused by the betrayal of the loved one. Real surprise of the film was Faye Wong who managed to pour even more energy to the film with her restlessness and childish innocence. Camera work captures all the emotions especially with the night time shots and Wong Kar Wai builds his stories brilliantly on these ,portraying HongKong as the original neon city with lots of lonely hearts. This film is a real art house treat to asian pop cinema lovers and a referance movie for the students of cinema and movie makers world wide.

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Summary: SORRY
Review: This will contrast most of your opinions, but I thought this movie was far too weird and had no plot. I agree that the cinematography was great and it's very unique and stylish in its own way but I really did not enjoy this.

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Summary: One of the best films of all time!
Review: I love this movie! It is very fresh and innovative. Easily the best movie of the 90's. Wong ka-wai did a great job in this film. And Faye Wong is one of the most attractive girls I've ever seen! She is really adorable in this film and I can't forget her cute face. I heard that she sang the title song. Anyway, a must for all the serious movie fans.

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Summary: Wong Kar Wai's finest film!!!
Review: Whether you are a fan of Wong Kar Wai or not, the film is still, in my opinion, one of the finest art films to come out of Hong Kong. The film is comprised of two independent stories, though some of the characters cross-over, that deal with love with a very MTV kind of energy. The film stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Bullet in the Head, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is in Chunking Expresse's sort-of-sequal Fallen Angels, another fantastic film. Hong Kong pop singer Faye Wong stars as does a blonde-wig wearing (Brigitte) Lin Chin Hsia. The film is very unique and entertaining even after repeated viewings.

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Summary: a unique take on love & relationships
Review: Chung King Express is a movie that says so much without a lot of rambling dialogue. It makes it's point without dancing around it or throwing in your face. The cinematography is exceptional and the story line is complicated while the theme is simple. I think this movie is powerful and a must see for aspiring and accomplished film makers.

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Summary: stylish, genuinly charming movie of lost love and fate
Review: This movie was made in weeks, but will be remembered by viewers for years. This will prove to be wong kar wei's masterpiece, which is ironic since it's purpose was to recharge his batteries during the filming of 'Ashes of Time'. The second story is the memorable one, and faye wong's performance is genuine, charming and convincing. This is a movie for all lovers and those wishing to experience love. The end will leave you wondering and wishing for the characters, which begs for a sequel!! I highly recommend this film for its style; the more you watch it the more you will learn not the answers of love, but the questions. Its not the destination you remember about this classic, but the journey. It is a journey the viewer will enjoy from beginning to end.

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Summary: Good
Review: Chungking Express is a strange film. This film, directed by Wong Kar-Wai, in an import from Hong Kong. The film deals with two related stories, the second one is more interesting than the first one. This film attacks the senses. Faye Wang is intoxicating in this noir drama. After this film you will have a Mamas and Papas tune in your head for a few days, PLEASE SEE MY OTHER REVIEWS.

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Summary: Ain't No Love In The Heart of the City.
Review: Set in post-breakup No Man's Land , where everything and nothing proceeds in a half-awake haze, Movie No. 4 by the unstoppably cool Wong Kar Wai ,traps the kinetic bustle of its polyglot milieu ( i.e. Hong Kong, premillenial and agit ) on-cam , making this engaging diptych about two bachelor cops on the tailend of a jilt (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) and their elusive and spanking-new objects of affection (Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong), the most hyperactive movie about stasis. Part Godard, part guerilla , Wong Kar Wai is an iconoclast infatuated with the pursuit of happiness in a crumbling lifescape and "Chungking" is his most spellbindingly romantic. Despite its kinetic bustle, its traffic-blur action and its throbbing pop mantras , all HK movie standbys, "Chungking" has ,at its core, an intimate calm and wistful melancholy closer to Jim Jarmusch ("Stranger Than Paradise") than Ringo Lam. Champion date movie of any year, "Chungking Express" is a shout of psychedelic neon with the hush of a sweet nothing.

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Summary: THE PERFECT MOVIE FOR THE BLUES
Review: I love this film for many reasons. It is visually stunning and has some of the best cinematography that I have ever seen. It also shows that love is a universal thing. That everyone no matter what their background is experience the same up and downs that love brings. I love watching this movie, and I tend to watch it when I have the Blues. The characters in the film are so real, and they go through what I am usually going through. The positive thing is that it leaves you on a positive note. So when ever I feel the blues I love to watch this film. It is one of the best films that I have ever seen, because the characters go through what everyone goes through no matter what their culture or background is.

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Summary: Great & Different from beginning to end, my favorite movie
Review: I like the movie and the music in the movie so well that I bought Fay Wong's CD. I really enjoyed her version of the cranberry song "Dream". The rest of the songs on the CD are great too. The movie is Unique & Captivating, the more you watch it the more you will like it.