Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)

[cahiers_du_2006]

I had forgotten completely about the drug smuggling portion of this. Jenna asked, "do you think that Faye returns to him?" (1) and I thought no. Yet I couldn't completely place why. Maybe it's that the not-so-directness of her approach. Her motivations only seemed half-formed in the film. Her desire to escape seems pretty unspecific ("maybe California"). Even when she writes the ticket to the cop played by Tony Leung she says, "where do you want to go?"

Do not put your faith in such unspecific people!

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1. A quick search on imdb reveals that the actor that plays Faye is named Faye Wong