It's also great to see Tony Leung in an early role that allows him some space for some little notes of emotion we haven't seen in future Wong Kar Wai movies where he's the super-serious or melancholy lover. There's also a very good performance turned in by actress Brigitte Lin, who before this was a (enormously popular) pop star, and is slightly used as opposed to cast by Kar Wai as a figurehead, like some flashy, self-conscious symbol of a mystery in and of itself (blond wig, going about the crevices of town on some criminal mystery, the music playing in tight but sweet strings). Probably film buff friends who enjoy obsessions over pineapple and girls. I'm not sure who, in the end, I would recommend Chungking Express. But what makes it so charming, and interesting ultimately in that European art-house way, is how Wong Kar Wai keeps a rhythm to his story that doesn't follow rules, but feels right in a sense like some off-beat song on an obscure album only your hip friend down the block has. It's about the search for romance in a city that is dark and dingy and full of holes someone could easily fall into. Chungking Express is light and frothy, featuring funny monologues about the importance of pineapple preservation and a charming, aimless usage of Mama and the Papa's California Dreaming.

One of Wong Kar Wai's most experimental features (and this is even for old Wong folks) is one of his earliest efforts, done while in a creative struggle making his epic Ashes of Time.

Reviewed by Quinoa1984 10 / 10 I like to revisit this movie every now and then, like a quirky, quintessentially cool photo in a pineapple frame He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever.

He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color.

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