i was afraid of watching Wong Kar-wai's "2046" as it had such bad reviews and i heard kimutaku was in it... but i ended up renting it at tsutaya after trying to go see Almodovar's "Bad Education" and finding tickets sold-out (ah, it was ladies' day!).
it's definitely not my favourite Wong Kar-wai movie, partly because i was annoyed by kimutaku (who looked so puny next to Faye Wong) but mostly because his other movies are so much better. perhaps i'm bothered by the storyline --the various sequences are interesting on their own, but it's hard to make sense of it as a whole. but i've thought that way about some of his previous movies and changed my mind later....
the visuals are definitely stunning, the slow motion montages, gorgeous chipaos.... and of course Tony Leung! if i ever have an illicit love affair it will be with Tony Leung. next time i hear "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" (the christmas song that kept on playing in the background) i might start drooling.
and watching the movie made me want to dress up. wouldn't it be cool if people still wore silk chipaos and high-heels all the time. Of course it would be nice to look like Zhang Ziyi too.
