If you like a director you can always find some reason or excuse to like him. But I think Wong Kar-wai is really pushing it.
My Blueberry Nights is another endless tribute of Wong Kar-wai to himself both thematically and aesthetically. Except this time the language is in English and the setting is in America. I feel like the movie is a total mashup of what he has already done tirelessly since the 80s. The movie is contrived and stale. Worse, Jude Law doesn't really make it any better. So I got tired of it. When you make a successful movie and you have said something already, do you still keep up the same theme, telling the same story ad nauseam? I guess you can at least that's what Wong has been doing for a long long time, perhaps too long and hopefully the eagerly anticipated The Grandmasters can inject some freshness to Wong's repertoire.
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ReplyDeleteWe are in agreement about most of what you said above but I remember I enjoyed the movie all the same when I watched it long long time ago. Maybe that's partly because I also like Jude Law.
I read the plot again on Wikipedia.org a minute ago. The subplot about the drunken policeman and his wife is also very enjoyable.
I want to watch the movie again.
Hong Kong Actress, Yip Yuk Hing is also in New York, have you seen her in New York?
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