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Article: Romance, Insularity, and Representation: Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love' and Hong Kong Cinema

TitleRomance, Insularity, and Representation: Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love' and Hong Kong Cinema
Authors
Biancorosso, G
Issue Date2007
PublisherMacquarie University, Division of Humanities. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.shimajournal.org
Citation
Shima, 2007, v. 1 n. 1, p. 88-94 How to Cite?
AbstractWong Kar-wai’s film In the Mood for Love (2000) is set in Hong Kong in the early 1960s and explores the predicament and reactions of a female character (So Lai-chen) who experiences a personal crisis at a time of political turmoil. Like that other great film about passion and solipsism, Nagisa Oshima’s Ai no corrida (1976), In the Mood for Love poses as a mere love story only to open up, in a brilliantly off-handed fashion, a scenario of political devastation against which romance becomes all but impossible. For all its casual tone, the backdrop of the 1966 riots is a shivering revelation of the social and political conditions that have made possible the protagonists’ solipsistic absorption in their feelings as well as the fragility of Hong Kong’s status as a geographical and political island. This article discusses these elements of the film in the context of contemporary Hong Kong society and cinema.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/90314
ISSN
1834-6049
2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.246

 

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dc.description.abstractWong Kar-wai’s film In the Mood for Love (2000) is set in Hong Kong in the early 1960s and explores the predicament and reactions of a female character (So Lai-chen) who experiences a personal crisis at a time of political turmoil. Like that other great film about passion and solipsism, Nagisa Oshima’s Ai no corrida (1976), In the Mood for Love poses as a mere love story only to open up, in a brilliantly off-handed fashion, a scenario of political devastation against which romance becomes all but impossible. For all its casual tone, the backdrop of the 1966 riots is a shivering revelation of the social and political conditions that have made possible the protagonists’ solipsistic absorption in their feelings as well as the fragility of Hong Kong’s status as a geographical and political island. This article discusses these elements of the film in the context of contemporary Hong Kong society and cinema.-
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