What is the movie 2046 about?

The film "2046" mainly tells the story of how Chow Mo-Wan turned every bit of his life into words and wrote the novel "2046" in order to say goodbye to the past.

In 1966, Chow Mo-wan, who left Hong Kong, hid a secret until he met Su Lizhen in Singapore. The enigmatic Su Lizhen reminded him of another figure. The woman also named Su Lizhen had always been a past that no one knew about in his heart. Zhou Muyun's eyes followed Su Lizhen through the casino. She saved Zhou Muyun from addiction, but was unwilling to leave with him.

Chow Mo-wan, who returned to Hong Kong alone, happened to meet his old acquaintance LuLu on Christmas Eve. However, LuLu had no memory of the past. LuLu couldn't remember the past with Chow Mo-Wan, but Chow Mo-Wan found a set of familiar numbers in the hotel where LuLu lived: 2046. Room 2046 was once full of memories of Chow Mo-Wan and Su Lizhen, but now only LuLu and her boyfriend CC are left in love. Traces of hatred intertwined.

Chow Mu-yun then moved into room No. 2047, and learned that the two daughters of the hotel owner, Wang Jiewen and Wang Jingwen, had their own concerns. Jiewen was in love, but Jingwen's relationship with her Japanese boyfriend was not allowed. At this time, the new tenant Bai Ling moved in. Bai Ling was a prostitute, and it was easy to seduce Zhou Muyun. However, when she fell in love with her, she realized that Zhou Muyun had already sealed her heart.

So Zhou Muyun began to write a novel called "2046". In the novel, as long as people get on the train to 2046, people can retrieve their lost memories. No one wants to leave 2046, except a man named Tak. Jingwen, who is passionately in love, will not know that the cold robot she transformed into in the story once brought the warmth that Tak longed for most. Her existence is the biggest secret in Tak's memory. Until 2046 AD, the mysterious train still ran to 2046? on a regular basis.

Extended information

"2046" is a feature film directed by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, starring Tony Leung, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Takuya Kimura, Zhang Ziyi, Carina Lau, Zhang Chen, Dong Jie, and a special appearance by Maggie Cheung. .

Every character in "2046" has a very distinct personality, but their hearts are extremely complicated. In addition, the lines in the play are very restrained, and what the camera expresses goes directly into the hearts of the characters. The film uses a lot of facial close-ups and partial close-ups to depict the characters. Even in the front and rear shots, the shoulders of the person in the foreground are deliberately blurred, and the face behind the shoulders is directly highlighted.

For example, in the scene before Chow Mo-wan and Su Lizhen broke up, an over-the-shoulder shot of a blurred Tony Leung showed the face of Gong Li with moist eyes. As for the characters' activities, long lenses are used to follow the shots to show the completeness of the characters' movements.

"2046" conveys the feeling of ambiguity in this unhurried and cramped way, and Wong Kar-wai skillfully uses the light and shadow, composition, scene scheduling, etc. in the picture to express this implicitness brilliantly. emotions.

In terms of the composition of the picture, most of the characters and environments shown in the shot adopt a closed composition. In the hotel where Chow Mo-wan lives, the foreground is the hotel sign, and the people standing on the rooftop behind the sign But it was suppressed to one-third of the picture, creating an atmosphere of depression and restraint. Even when Chow Mo-wan is walking in the deep streets, the director avoids using panoramic depth-of-field lenses and instead uses a large aperture to blur the street scene behind the character, deepening the sense of crampedness in the picture, thereby highlighting the loneliness deep inside the heart of the love-lost character. Even in relatively empty scenes, the foreground is deliberately blurred.

Wong Kar-wai conveys a gloomy and depressive tone through the rich visual language of his films. The image is low-key, and the colors used are also dark. Although it is a scene of feasting and dancing, the colors are bright, but the director's restraint is clearly visible. Therefore, it conveys a sense of depression to the audience.

"2046" is excellent in its use of light and shadow. The contrast between the bright colors under the feasting lights and the dark mottled colors on the dim street corner walls, as well as the deep tones used to create the characters, all illustrate the protagonist's living condition in that environment: the inner loneliness of losing himself. The excellent processing of light and shadow adds aesthetic color to the images of "2046".

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