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Modern city life and city's relations in Chungking Express
Modern city life and city's relations in Chungking Express
In the recent decades of the development of Hong Kong Cinema, especially in the time of Hong Kong New Wave, there are really number representable Hong Kong filmmakers. Wong Kai-wai, being one of the late Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker, is famous and popular in his works with post-modern features. One of his romantic comedy genre work - Chungking Express, is noted in expressing the urban cityscape of Hong Kong, particular in the place of Tsimshatsui and Central. Similar to Wong's previous films, the expressing of the themes and motifs of time, love, lost and searching for self-identification. These elements enable Chungking Express to give a good picture of protagonists' frustration and loneliness in Hong Kong to the audience. In this essay, I will start from the modern urbanscape sitting in Hong Kong, and try to figure out the modern city life style in relating to time and memory. Further, I would try to focus on the inter-personal relations inside the geographical identity of Hong Kong.
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