![]() ![]() The romance of the film is subtle, depicting the complicated yet unexplainable internalized thoughts of Mr. This CrashCourse video explains my feelings a lot better than I ever could: The movie then shows that even though there were moments where they almost encounter each other after they lived separate lives, their fate was to never see each other again. Chow moved to Singapore for his career and they went on separate paths in life. Under social pressure and stigmas at the time, they kept denying that they developed real feelings when in fact they fell in love with each other through the “fake relationship.” Eventually, Mr. However, here’s where it’s different from TATBILB. It almost draws parallel with Peter Kavinsky and Lara Jean having a fake relationship in “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before.” And as anyone can imagine, they begin to develop feelings for each other by spending time improvising their spouses’ affair. They realize that their spouses were having an affair with each other, so they coped with it by acting and improvising how they imagined their spouses’ affair developed. Chan, are neighbors living in the overcrowded apartments in Hong Kong. Long story but basically the gist.) The main characters, Mr. Hong Kong has been and is still constantly harmed by both British colonization and PRC fascism. (It is because under colonization that the British administration shielded a lot of cultural genocide from the People’s Republic of China at the time. The film is set in the 1960s in Hong Kong, when Hong Kong people were living in a rather peaceful yet confusing time under British colonization. So, I decided to spend my self-care time watching the film and connecting to my parents’ lived experiences. It was interesting to see that people on the internet who did not grow up with my culture showed appreciation for my culture, as well as the international Asian film representation in Western media almost two decades ago. Producer Wong Kar-Wai actually won multiple international film awards in the U.K. (Some are probably problematic using orientalism references as trendy topics in Western “hipster angst” internet trends, without understanding colonial elements of Hong Kong.) Soon after, I also learned that “In the Mood for Love” was considered one of the most iconic movies produced in Hong Kong. I was shocked to learn that scenes and quotes from “In the Mood for Love” a movie made back in the 2000s had become trendy angst quotes on Tumblr and Twitter today in 2018. However, since I did not grow up in the era when the Hong Kong entertainment industry was booming, I haven’t been exposed to a lot of the old movies, including “In the Mood for Love,” that were considered iconic, nor have I ever experienced the sentiments of Hong Kong film industry like some of my family friends from the older generations had. Stars like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan (even though problematic), Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung and more were the famous icons from the golden era of the Hong Kong film industry. ![]() I remember that I would sometimes overhear family friends from the older generation reminiscing about the sentiments of Hong Kong-produced film back in the day during family gatherings when I was little. As a local Hongkonger, the film and music industry in Hong Kong has been a trademark of Hong Kong entertainment industry as well as in East Asia in the 1990s to 2000s. I began to internalize hidden messages in the film “In the Mood for Love,” produced by the Hong Kong film legend Wong Kar-Wai, as the end credits appear appeared in front of my eyes. Wong Kar-Wai “In the Mood for Love” (2001) ![]()
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