Wong Kar-wai is the second director I have watched more than one of their films during this quarantine (Alfred Hitchcock being the first). I relate so much to the characters in the film. The music is phenomenal from the jazzy somber sounds to ‘California Dreamin’ in the second half. The sound is elevated further by Faye Wong’s cute dancing. She is gorgeous and it’s so easy to fall in love with her the second you see her. I also really dug the way Wong Kar-wai handled the slowing down of time in order to hone in on specific seconds the characters are experiencing. The images become hypnotic. The color palette of the film is interesting. It’s cool (colorwise) even where there are warm colors.
