Fallen Angels

life changing first watch I cant even lie. Just put you in a trance, makes you rethink everything but most importantly, the subject and theme of this movie, the ability to love and be obsessed with someone but never learning the pattern of moving on. Wong Kar-Wai illustrates the feeling of loneliness to perfection in this movie, captures every scene without wasting them, making this movie an experience i've never experience before. Along with the shots panned out to see the surrounding area, it never let's you stop for a moment, it keeps you in the loop, seeing and paying attention to every single detail because if you don't, you will miss out on it. The contrast between the 3 different characters we follow gives this movie every it needs, a person who can't get over someone, a person desperately trying to escape his life, and a person who truly appreciate his life, it was jaw dropping at 2am for me. On it's own, Fallen Angels is a beautifully pictured movie, that was somehow overlooked by me for years, only to be digged up by the mention of my friends saying it's a "masterpiece" and a "once in a lifetime experience", they were not wrong at all. In the end, the messiness of “Fallen Angels” gives you the message Wong Kar-Wai was trying to deliver; the film’s chaos allows its survivors to find a sense of possibility in each other. Nothing lasts forever, not a job or a partnership or a city, and especially not a point in time. Definitely one of my favorite first watch and I will comeback for a 2nd watch when I finish all of Wong Kar-wai's catalogue.