These sound, camera and editing techniques convey so subtly what his characters are going through. However, his style seems to have its roots in the style of the French New Wave where we can also see a lot of romancing with the city, as well as his much talked about styles of editing – be it making his actors move slowly and filming at a speed lower than 24fps (while blurring everyone else out), or the jump cuts, and freeze frames all this drives the narrative of the his stories.Īlso read: ‘Perfect Blue’: Relevance of a 1997 Anime Film in Today’s ‘Real’ World In fact, Wong Kar-Wai’s films were a break from the action films of the era, exploring human emotions in a social setting unique to Hong Kong. And if you expected me to compare his style with another filmmaker, I cannot.
Wong Kar-Wai’s films are like making love to loneliness, like buying time to stare into nothingness in a place where time isn’t too affordable, usually at the cost of heartbreak or indefinite longing. But even if you’re not what they call a cinephile, and just someone who likes watching romantic dramas, you might find your new favourites somewhere in Wong Kar-Wai’s filmography. Perhaps it is safe to say that lovers of cinema love Wong Kar-Wai’s films. However, even otherwise, scenes and frames from his popular films consistently flock innumerable cinema and art pages on Instagram. The 62-year-old Hong Kong filmmaker’s name has been the talk of the town ahead of the March 2021 release of The World of Wong Kar-Wai, the seven disc box set with 4,000 restorations of his films curated by The Criterion Collective.
The way I make films is more like posing questions.”
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