In the Mood For Love: Crash Course Film Criticism #5
Cinematic love stories come in all shapes and sizes. Movies are really good at both capturing and projecting emotions. And one of the best directors at the modern love story is Wong Kar-Wai....
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The history of film is full of tragic love stories, from Casablanca to Brokeback Mountain, Brief Encounter, Ghost, An Affair to Remember, Titanic, or Amour… The list goes on and on! Movies seem to capture that mix of yearning, anguish, and exhilaration that comes with falling in love so well. Especially when that love can’t last. And that’s because film is, at its core, an emotional medium. It immerses us in a world with intricate settings and sounds. And we live vicariously through characters as their stories unfold before us. No one can chart the complex course of the human heart quite like the filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai. And the film In the Mood for Love is a great example of his skill, whether we see it as a deep meditation on human longing, or a re...
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The history of film is full of tragic love stories, from Casablanca to Brokeback Mountain, Brief Encounter, Ghost, An Affair to Remember, Titanic, or Amour… The list goes on and on! Movies seem to capture that mix of yearning, anguish, and exhilaration that comes with falling in love so well. Especially when that love can’t last. And that’s because film is, at its core, an emotional medium. It immerses us in a world with intricate settings and sounds. And we live vicariously through characters as their stories unfold before us. No one can chart the complex course of the human heart quite like the filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai. And the film In the Mood for Love is a great example of his skill, whether we see it as a deep meditation on human longing, or a re...
