Review of In the Mood for Love (2000) by Tsubaki S — 30 Sep 2008

This film just doesn't do anything for me, same goes with every WKW film I have seen so far. It feels just so...cold, sterile, I never felt anything about the characters, and damn it, i'm talking about two of the best actors of the last two decades, Tony frigging Leung Chiu Wai and the gorgeous Maggie Cheung, who looks so stunning in her tight dress that I seriously would ask her to marry me if I ever met her (ill remember to wear running shoes just in case she has some nasty bodyguards with her).

Where I was? Oh yeah, this is like watching a postcard, beautiful colors and all that, but nothing to care about. I'm starting to think that Christopher Doyle should get credited as the director of this instead of WKW.

So, the idea is that feelings are such a complex thing that sometimes they doesn't have to be expressed and what not. Why bother doing a film about that then? If this is suppose to be the greatest love story ever told that means couples should never even kiss, hug, and that they should remain cold and silent towards each other? Again, that's why most romantic films fail to impress me, they are as convincing as a politician saying he cares about the people. Why can't anybody make a "romantic" movie where people actually behave like normal human beings? South Korea's "Oasis" tells a better love story, and that's one film featuring two mentaily disabled persons as the couple.