Director/Writer: Wong Kar
Wai
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu
Wai, Maggie Cheung
Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood
for Love” is elegance itself. Rarely has such a beautiful movie been
photographed. Yet its beauty is contained to the intimate relationship of it’s
two main characters, a man and a woman who are neighbors and come to the
conclusion that their spouses are having an affair. This sends them on their
own timid affair that observes careful measure and elegant dresses.
My wife was in awe of the
dresses worn by Maggie Cheung here. They were all distinctly in the same style,
all incredibly unique. Cinematic style is really what Wong is creating
here. His story of adultery is not one that hasn’t been told before, but it has
never been told in this particular way.
From the costume design to
the music design, everything experienced in this lover’s masterpiece is
carefully calculated to elicit the emotional responses that so oft accompany both
lust and love. I was surprised to learn that this movie is rated ‘PG’,
considering its adulterous subject matter; but it doesn’t earn any more severe
a rating than that. As far as the audience can tell, the lovers never consummate
their love. In many ways their dance is like a game, they even repeat and
rehearse some of their exchanges so they will get them right at the time they
are actualized.
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