The Unbearable Beauty of Wong Kar-Wai's Movies <3

I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

ისეთი ცხოვრება მინდა ხოლმე, აი, ეს საუნდტრეკი რომ მოუხდება:

Wong Kar-Wai · Tony Chiu-Wai Leung & Maggie Cheung in The Mood for Love (1999)

Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar Wai

Sometimes people think, “Well, why don’t you work with a script?” I said, “The script is only a part of this process. It’s only the foundations. It is only a blueprint.” If a script is good enough, then you should be a writer, make it into a novel. Cinema has certain qualities, and it’s the image. Sometimes this image has its own breathing or tempo. It has to linger, and will linger because you want to have more. It is very instinctive. It is very instinctive when you’re shooting the shots in front of this video, the monitor, you know exactly, because sometimes it takes you more than 10 takes or 15 takes.

Some people will ask, “Are there any big differences? Can you tell the difference?” I say, “You try.” You can show me two weeks later and I can still tell you which take is the take that I want because it’s the very minor details. But, in fact, it’s a big difference. Because a shot also is like love, it’s about timing; a certain moment in the right place, in the right light, in the right movement, this shot will become memorable.

— Wong Kar Wai, excerpt from his interview in 2006 on ABC Australia