Fallen Angels makes me accept the fact that I’m a bitch for melodrama. Like, hey, Wong Kar-wai I’m worshipping you. This film is so simple yet so SO amazing. Just the fact that most of the film revolves around partnership, love, time and space... Have you ever gone to a store and seen the same stranger in there every time you go in? It’s like you know them but you really don’t? Still you feel there is a bonding between you too? And maybe it’s just you, feeling together in space and time but they only witness you in space and don’t think of you in time or maybe don’t even ever notice you at all!! Well Fallen Angels reflects on how we can often be together in space but apart at the same time; hence the scene of one of the film’s character Zhiwu when he watches a tape of his dead father. We perceive that Zhiwu feels once more connected with his father in space, but we also get a sense of “together in different times”. Utterly simplistic and beautiful, there is nothing more perfect than everything this film sets out to be. And I feel so connected to it. The way the cinematography plays, those odd yet intimate close ups on characters, the smoothed slow motion, the shift between the cold colours and poppy warm colours, the very simplistic small locations that make the film feel so much more intimate yet the emptiness in scenarios sometimes adds that melancholic touch... The beautifully composed music, I have never listened to such an amazing soundtrack, wow! This film is flawless. “Everyday you will encounter many people,” “There are some people you can never get close to,” “Maybe the fact we’re both so quiet explains why we’ve always been so close,” “Find out too much about a person and you lose interest.” Thanks for this masterpiece Wong Kar-wai.