A Review of Wong Kar Wai’s Fallen Angels.
Released a year after Wong Kar Wai’s beloved film Chungking Express, Fallen Angels actually was originally supposed to be a third story contained within the narrative of that film. Wong actually ended up cutting this out of the original Chungking Express because he found the content to be too different than the other two narratives, and because he thought Chungking Express didn’t need a third story. At the end of the day, he was very right, because both Chungking and Fallen Angels can be very distinct from each other while also borrowing elements. More on that later though. Let’s just dive straight into this review, shall we? From the very beginning scene, we can see the borrowed elements from Chungking Express. Although the extreme close up at an angle to the girl’s face is something completely new for Wong’s cinematic decisions, we get a voiceover of a male character describing his relationship to a female character. Classic. Sounds like Chungking right there, which ...