The Chungking Express - When it comes to love, everything has an expiration date.

'Do memories have an expiration date if they could be stored in a can?

If that's the case, I hope it lasts for hundreds of years.'

The sentences and conditions in the film Chunking Express or The Golden-haired woman fighting for the Heart to shock the World by Wong Kar Wai, the philosopher who developed the original open-ended script, make you wonder. While the characters murmured and sat alone in their own time, I sat looking and searching for explanations.

While the characters muttered and sat alone in their own time, I sat staring and looking for answers all the time. I'm done with the confusing and thought-provoking terms from the movie Chungking Express or the Blonde Woman Who Astonished the World by Wong Kar Wai, the original creator of open-ended scripts.

That's what everyone said happened with "Wong's actions."

This is most likely what led to Wong's behavior or the youngsters of that generation experiencing the loneliness of the 1990s.

The movie centres on two main plotlines with police officers 223 and 663 in a small city who have disparate lifestyles in terms of social circles, diet, and attitudes. One similarity is experiencing heartbreak after being let down in a romantic relationship. However, there is a distinction between "thinking that everything has a lifespan, including love" and "letting love pass and time will heal everything" in the tangled relationship structure of this metropolis and its winding alleys.

COP 223 was abducted by May, his lover. The canned pineapple would expire in a month, and the breakdown date was April 1, 1994. He made a condition along the way: "He will no longer have any contact with the person named May for the remainder of his life if Amay does not return within the allotted time." His everyday activities at the time included phoning up May in case he responded and running to induce perspiration so that he wouldn't have to cry. It would be over if he didn't return. In order to eat it, he purchased a canned pineapple that had gone bad on May 1, 1994. He moved while he was eating the canned pineapple that had gone bad. He decided to consume a canned pineapple that had gone bad on May 1, 1994. His world briefly came to a halt when he encountered a "blonde girl" at a pub as he was eating the expired canned pineapple.

COP 663, on the other hand, ended his relationship with his former flight attendant girlfriend. He dreamed of exploring new locations and stepping beyond his comfort zone, as contemporary folks like to say. But there are no circumstances in his life that would change anything. Dust remains on the dolls and allows time to cure everything, even when everything is properly placed. He consistently works the morning shift, eats the same food, arrives home late, and arranges his belongings in the same spot. He is leaving his ex-lover with tears in their eyes. Yet 'love' is one thing that releases him from the constraints of his former existence.

The relationship between COP 663 and 'Faye,' a sandwich vendor lady who likes to change and do things better every day, starts with playing music so loud that she can't hear the customers, to the point of covertly changing things in room number 663 that sounded bad but might make everything brighter with little by little changes in memories, is an example of how a relationship's turning point often arises from small points that we don't see as problems or turning points. Alternatively, we can consider the relationship between COP 223 and a woman in blonde wig and wearing stylish sunglasses. COP 223 believes that the girl's "shoes" are the most beautiful item, so he lets everything go in the evening and leaves after taking them off.

In contrast to the two-month filming period in Wong Kar-wai's guerrilla style, the camera angle was created using the Step-Printing technique, which is simply defined as lowering the frame rate to a lower level and increasing the number of frames to double the number of frames. In certain scenes, Focus Blur and Point of View were used to create a sense of a calm atmosphere amidst the chaos of Hong Kong.

In Wong Kar-wai's style, the plot will be poetic and contain a lot of metaphors. The story is not as lovely as a conventional romantic film, and the way it is told leaves room for the audience to interpret and come up with their answers. The goal of Chungking Express is to transport viewers to a dream world while simultaneously drawing them in with the story's agonizing reality, which is the world's unstable and transient reality. The same is true of human emotions, which are rife with desire, hence the film's meandering plot has surprise encounters or situations that the spectator did not anticipate. It is still possible to appreciate the work of art while simultaneously reading, listening, and viewing, regardless of how much the audience is impressed by his writing.

Even though a lot of time has flown, I still think of Chungking Express while munching on an expired pineapple can until the sun sets, and I wait for the courage to free myself without realizing it or for emancipation from the constraints of love.

However, it will undoubtedly conclude with us putting the Wong Kar Wai movie universe out of our hearts. If there are any additional noteworthy details, I'll keep these recollections in the pineapple can in the fridge for a while.

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