Fallen Angels

"Fallen Angels" is such a wild ride! It's like Wong Kar-wai took storytelling and spun it on its head. You've got these two different narratives, right? One is about this hitman and his mysterious agent who've never met, and the other's about this mute dude who's got a thing for breaking into businesses and pretending to be their owner. Weird? Yes. Intriguing? Absolutely! The way Kar-wai tells these stories is far from your usual start-to-finish stuff. It's fragmented and all over the place, but in a good way. The storytelling's as chaotic and frenzied as the neon-lit, night-time Hong Kong backdrop it's set against. But amidst all this chaos, there's this sense of loneliness and longing that hits you right in the feels. Kar-wai doesn't spoon-feed you anything. He just drops these moments, these snippets of the characters' lives and lets you piece it all together. And even though the stories barely overlap, they're tied together by this thread of urban alienation and unfulfilled desires. It's unconventional, it's a bit disorienting, but boy is it captivating! If you're up for a cinematic experience that shakes up traditional storytelling, you gotta check out "Fallen Angels".

Wong Kar-wai has one of the most delicious and delirious filmographies I’ve come across. His characters live such wildly different lives and yet share so many of the same feelings of longing and loneliness that I always connect to so deeply. His extreme close-ups and warped camera angles, claustrophobic settings and dizzying use of colour and light make for some of the most paradoxically pleasing and uncomfortable watching experiences in cinema (not to mention the fucking incredible soundtracks, every time). His work is absolutely unparalleled. Fallen Angels joins In the Mood for Love and Days of Being Wild as big favourites of mine. 2046 was the only (slight) miss so far for me, and even then there’s so much to compliment it on.