In his informal 1960s Love Trilogy, Wong Kar-Wai infuses his characters and frames with a dubious sense of melancholia that triggers lives which are connected to each other by nothing but a sense of longing. Wong Kar Wai explores Love – one of the most commonly presented themes in films, with a sense of it being absolutely unexplained and unreasonable. Time, chance and decisions are recurring reasons for the fate that his characters have to face on their way to loving someone or being loved by someone.
Wong Kar-Wai’s Love Trilogy
It’s somewhat limiting to refer to Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love and 2046 collectively as Wong Kar Wai’s “Informal Trilogy.” Yes, these three films recycle some characters and continually allude to events from their respective predecessors (or even, especially in the case of Wild’s quizzical final scene, to their successors). Despite their diegetic similarities, what really distinguishes these films as a single – and truly singular – narrative is not the complex inter-textual relationship between characters and plotlines, but their surprisingly linear emotional chronicle of romance’s tragic ramifications.
Wong Kar-Wai’s Love Trilogy
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