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What would it be like to conceal your emotion when you are deeply in love with someone? It is what happens to Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk), who are next-door neighbors in an apartment building in Hong Kong, 1962. Love and marriage is the most essential underlying issue in the film. Interacting with another important element, that is the Chinese traditional culture on respectability, love is expressed in an implicit way which allows the two in love no physical contact. Mr. Chow and Li-zhen are purely soul mates who are painfully polite to each other, which means you do not know what they are thinking. With flash-forwards, the story can be set across 4 years between 1962 and 1966 so that changes in the life of the two main characters can be shown. It is told episodically, base on the issue of Chow and Li-zhen's lear
The unstable political situation leads to the migration of many people in Hong Kong in 1966. It is these incidental moments and glances that make Chow and Li-zhen fall in love with each other unconsciously. The question left for us to ponder is: will the ending be different if the story happens in the 21st century?. The evocative music sounds like heartbeats and heightens the inner struggle of the two lovers having guilty mix of tension and desire. Women like Li-zhen is supposed to be constrained in their domestic atmosphere, dress up themselves to distinguish themselves from the maids. Therefore, the restaurant scene is the crucial part contributes to the development of the story. The unstable external environment is the projection of the inner conflict between desire and tension of the lovers. Their separating eventually is caused by their unable to withstand the watchful eyes of the society. Chan, instead of directly saying that she is Mrs. ning of their spouses having an affair with each other. Under the watchful eyes of the still-traditional society (the tension), the two never act upon their desire of love, not even verbally express it. Once get married, people, especially women lose all their freedom. The smoke from the cigarette of Chow, the mirrors in the rooms and the shadows of the two at the corner of the street create a dreamy mood. The image, speech, sound and music integrate to produce the slow, subtle and internalised film.
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