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That “except one” is the hook—and the heartbreak—of Wong Kar-wai’s aching, gorgeous, and deliberately frustrating masterpiece. 2046 by wong kar-wai
Where In the Mood for Love was about what was almost said, 2046 is about what’s said too late, or to the wrong person. Chow claims he’s moved on. He hasn’t. He pays other women to pretend, he writes stories where robots cry, he laughs at love while composing elegies to it. [Insert date] That “except one” is the hook—and
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film, Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong cinema, romance, memory There’s a moment about halfway through 2046 when Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) sits in a dim noodle shop, narrating: “In the year 2046, nothing changes. No one knows if that’s true or not, because no one who ever went there has come back… except one.”