Understanding In the Mood for Love (2000) | Forbidden Love
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2022
- Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is another expression of the many avenues love can take. And in this film we are shown the sadness and beauty of Forbidden Love.
A love between two people that cannot be expressed and thus they look into each other's eyes longing for the touch of their lips to meet but instead must refrain because it is a love that cannot be actioned.
This can be for many reasons but for our two main characters Chow and Li-Zhen it is because they do not want to be like their partners, who are having an affair.
These two are good people that are put in a circumstance that no one wants to be in.
Chow’s wife is having an affair with Li-Zhen’s husband and to make matters more complicated they are neighbours that moved in at the same time.
But what takes place after they find out about the affair is to try and understand why the people they love the most would act out to hurt them.
So Chow and Li-Zhen begin to meet up.
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MASTERPIECE. It’s the sexiest movie I’ve ever seen, despite that you never actually see them have sex. Even by the end I was left wondering if they ever did do the deed or not. The surreal cinematography really sells the film for me too.
I was thinking about this movie exactly the same, how it can be so sexy and intimate without any sex scenes.
fun fact, wong kar wai did shoot a scene but cut it out which i'm soooo glad he did because that changes the whole movie
Best film ever made, superb in every sense 👌
Their real life is like a reversal of their roles in the movie. Tony Leung is married to Carina Lau whom he's been with since forever and he would never leave her to be with Maggie Cheung even though they clearly have a spark between them 💔 Cest la vie
love all of your discourses on Wong Kar-Wai films
Great work, great movie too
I would have shot down your point about not sympathizing with their partners only because we were never given their side of things if not for the film Lost in Translation. It's set in Japan, features 2 characters always apart from their partners, and presented in a visual style seemingly inspired by this film. I would never condone cheating but seeing the matter from the cheaters' point of view does evoke a bit of sympathy.
Good point about lost in translation...would be a decent double bill
I just finished watching the movie. Wow! And i totally got lost in translation (one of my fav movies ever) vibes even before watching the movie. Completely diff movies/vibes though.imo
I've watched yesterday, a really good movie!
Your analyzing is awesome!
Thank you, I appreciate the kind comment!
Maravilha esse filme 🎥
Such a great movie!
Brooo how do you only have 10 k subs, you, cinema stix, nerdwriter, in depth cine and Thomas Flight, easily the best cinema channels! Great video, keep it up! Maybe it will find you your 2046 ;)
I don't feel like it at the moment. I'm struggling with a Kung Fu Panda 2 video 😂...but thanks for the comment!
@@filmisjustmovingpictures lets goooo
I really like your channel and your analysis on Wong Kar-Wai's movies. I just recently watched Chungking Express and Fallen Angels as well and I started following your channel.
In this movie, I would be interested on your take on the Cambodia sequence at the end. Do you think he just left his secret there in Angkor Wat and kind of moved on this past love affair or it had some spiritual meaning which was not clear for me?
And I also found that Singapore sceen interesting, because it seemed like just for a brief moment she thought about acting out their love in reality, but she refused to do it and went back to her husband. So there was a longing for it in her as well and she made an effort travelling there and finding him, but still thought this love is forbidden and not the way for her, which was really sad.
All in all I enjoyed this movie very much with this memory like atmosphere about the events that happend between them.
Thank you for the comment!
Yeah, i think you have good point that he left that secret there as a way to move on. Instead of keeping that feeling inside, maybe he found it to be therapeutic to put those feeling out there into the world. - i would say watch 2046 because it is basically a sequel to In the Mood of Love and does cover the aftermath of this movie.
And watch my video on 2046 after! 😂
@@filmisjustmovingpictures Thank you for the suggestion, I will certainly watch that too. :)
A review I found that might be interesting to you:
And then we end at Angkor Wat. The male protagonist whispers something into a part of that famous Buddhist temple, perhaps related to his story at the 1:20:00 mark where he mentions how men whisper secrets that they can't relate.
Okay, so why Angkor Wat?
Before we try that question, there's another thing: the documentary footage inserted about five minutes before the end. It shows Charles de Gaulle in Cambodia in 1966. What?!? What does that have to do with an affair movie in Hong Kong in 1962? I searched long and hard on UA-cam and other places for answers, but unfortunately the videos with millions of views delivered me nothing.
I suppose one answer comes from Kar-Wai's other films: foreign (US and European mainly) influence on SE Asia. "In the Mood for Love" features Western styles in an Eastern place, most notably perhaps the music of Nat King Cole. Plus the fashion styles highlighted by all the slo-mo. Near the end, we cut away from that to ancient influence, Angkor Wat, the largest Buddhist temple of all. You see a Rashomon-like shot of a Buddhist monk, in orange, in a doorway or gateway as the establishment shot at Angkor Wat.
I think even though this looks like a movie about affairs and romance, it's really about unfulfilled desires, which is fundamentally a religious problem. That may explain the ending a bit. Mr. Chow could have chosen any tree or rock anywhere; he chose one of the most famous of all Buddhist sites in which to whisper his secret heart's desire. The hole in the rock is highlighted, the unfilled/unfulfilled space in which his whisper will enter and disappear.
Chow, as the opening intertitle might suggest, lacks all courage to pursue his beloved. But who or what is his beloved? I submit he doesn't know, he's trapped in a world he can't control and doesn't understand, and he whispers a secret we don't know the contents of in that glorious ancient site. (Okay, so he stuffs the hole with grass and earth to plug it up. As if that would truly contain his secret.)
Isn't the desire for the married partner of another vanity? Wouldn't it be so in Buddhism? What about all of the styles, the clothes, the things in this movie?
I don't think this movie celebrates at all the melancholic longing for not having or getting the thing you want. It seems to, but it's a trick. Maybe Chow and Chan want each other, maybe Cambodia wants Charles de Gaulle, maybe Hong Kong wants US style and music and fashion. What is all that to the Buddhist monk sitting in Angkor Wat, watching Mr. Chow walk out of the temple?
It might all be a trap. The protagonists, as is well known, are always contained or squeezed into tight spaces in almost every frame. That is a commentary on their narrow desires, which are as stuck as Mr. Chow's whisper in the hole.
What do you think about this movie?
Isn't the official international title In the Mood FOR Love?
@@fabianhebestreit3240 lol, maybe
@@filmisjustmovingpictures The rest of he analysis was great though!
I've now updated the video with the right title. Thanks for pointing that out! I don't think i would have found out otherwise 😅
My third of Wong Kar wai movie. The best one is Chungking Express & second is Days of Being Wild for me!!!
Are you sure that Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan spot each other at 5:46?
i dont think they actually do, its a mere representation
I find it more interesting if they did but it's shot in a way that both answers can be correct
Sometimes you just cant, no matter how much you try, to convince people that bs is art. This movie is waste of time. Period.
Just say it’s not your cup of tea.
@@sy1ridere its not my cup of tea.