In the Mood for Love

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TITLE: Analysis of In the Mood for Love “If there is another ticket, would you go with me?” ---the man asked the woman, in smoky voice and softened eyes I have never watched such a movie that so slow in motion and so vague of understanding like this before. The Hong Kong movie In the Mood for Love, which is famous for portraying the traditionally eastern beauties, depicts a vague relationship between two married people. Kar Wai Wong, director of this film, comments the whole love story as a bittersweet dream in which the love and flipped moments are expressed so implicitly because of the fear of deviating the norms in 1960s’ Hong Kong and he deems it as his favorite production. Bunches of long shots and eye contact without explicit expression and explanation throughout the film, I got lost several times. But when the typical music arouses, the alluring tunes make every subtle segments starts to change, and the love flowing between the two is tinted as mysterious and surreptitious. The flowing emotion of protagonists gets clearer to audiences by the hinted score which meanwhile enhances the ambivalence of both of the man and woman. Vagueness seems the ever-lasting theme of the film but of which the typical score penetrates some of the vagueness by making hints to try to define the exact motion of the protagonists, though still leaving other scenes being unclear in order to keep the ambiguous relation of the man and the woman and whole film in the sense of ambiguity. The theme of the score is a little bit old, which the director comments as contradictory but nevertheless so sexy in a way. If listening to the music without watching at the scene, we can get some basic characteristic and main idea of the score.
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