Review of 2046 (2004) by Drew P — 01 Aug 2010
2046, is it a year? Is it an address? Is it a hotel number? Well, after watching it, i'd say it's a little bit of all three. A confusing, yet satisfying watch. Fine acting from Tony Leung as the main character Chow.
Turns out that 2046 is also the title to a story that Chow writes about a place called 2046 where people go for sexual pleasures or something like that. It cuts back and forth between Chow's created fantasy world and reality.
In reality, it shows his hit and miss love life with Maggie Cheung who plays Su Li-Zhen. Later he falls in love with Gong Li and Ziyi Zhang, both from 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. At least this dude Chow has a really, really, REALLY good taste in his women.
So he ends up getting his heart broken by Su so he decides to spend his life pimping all the ladies he can find, and writing erotic, futuristic novels. Later into the story, he co-writes a story with his landlords daughter who he begins to see in his fantasies as well.
Sounds like a smutty, HBO style B-movie, but amazingly it is not! It's more like a Noir style, 40's or 50's detective movie, only minus the detective, instead with a journalist pimp as the lead! The movie was brilliantly directed.
The movie had a great spirit to it, and had many steep and deep hills of emotion and desire. It kind of reminded me of a futuristic, retro Noir'esque version of 'A Street Car Named Desire'.
An intriguing movie. It might not satisfy the Rambo-action-gun seeker, but it should do it for romantics or just people who enjoy a good drama with some depth every now and then. 3.0 starz.
This review of 2046 (2004) was written by Drew P on 01 Aug 2010.
2046 has generally received very positive reviews.
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