Chungking Express DVD

Advantages: Unique style, nicely told stories.
Disadvantages: No real connection between both stories offered.

...thing that you'll notice about Chungking Express (which incidentally must challenge for worst translated title ever) is the style. A mirage of flashy effects, beautiful cityscapes and vivid colors, the film is a joy to look at. On one hand, this is great, as it breaks the formula look that seems to dictate the style of some many films. On the other hand it's unfortunate as it can distract away from the stories on offer here, which is a shame, as ...
...films I write about. Chungking Express is an excellent film that deserves to be seen, although I do question exactly who would like it. It's not an easy film by any means, but that shouldn't put people off, although if they want a stepping stone, In The Mood For Love (also by Kar Wai Wong, and reviewed by me) is a far more accessible film. Overall though, Chungking Express, underneath all of the visual styling does tell two very simple, very beautiful ... Read review

Advantages: Multiple narratives which are intelligently woven together showing experiences of love and loss
Disadvantages: If you don't like having to read subtitles then this will not be the film for you

...Songshen .... Man REVIEW Chungking Express is a film which is set in Hong Kong, showing the fast paced culture that is present here and presenting the lifestyles of three main individual; the characters of Faye, Cop 223, and Cop 663. The lives of these three key individuals are woven together along with the Blonde Woman at the beginning who remains nameless despite having her own sub-story in the film and her own voiceover narrative. This film ...
...Kong can now be seen to possess. The effect of globalisation is subtly portrayed in this film such as with the logos of McDonalds, Coca, Cola, and Del Monte amongst other shown in the film. The Coca Cola label is often focussed on in the fast food place that Faye works in and it can be seen that Wong Kar Wai is here presenting to us that Hong Kong is just like any other major city such as New York or London in many respects. At the beginning of ... Read review

Advantages: An historical document that's fast and funny, a wild ride
Disadvantages: None

Won Kar-Wai's CHUNGKING EXPRESS was released in 1994, part drama, part thriller, part romance, part comedy and a melancholic fable on the loneliness of this modern world in which we have lost ourselves. Based in Honk-Kong's Chungking Mansions, a visually stunning, densely populated complex of neon-lit shabby hostels, bars, clubs and drugs, we follow four of its isolated inhabitants as the similarities of their unusual stories very cleverly link whilst, ...
...with shaky hand-held cameras. Indeed, CHUNGKING EXPRESS absolutely crackles with a breathless sense of urgency that after one hour-and-forty minutes left me speechless, having brilliantly reflected the lexicon of emotions of city life, portrayed in those crucial years in which it was made, those leading up to Hong-Kong's handover to China. A great film. (A film-only review; not to be associated with the format it comes on, available bonus features ... Read review