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Plot: A tragic romantic drama centering on two street hoodlums from the city and a young woman from a small resort island.
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MCT:May 18, 2008
Another one of the Andy Lau 80's gangster movies. Jacky Cheung is his brother who is hot tempered and got into trouble with another big time gangster Alex Man. In the end Jacky takes up the job of killing one guy who is going to be witness for the police against the gangsters and off course he got killed by the police. Andy then quickly go in and complete the job and was killed as well. All the cast acts well. The kissing scene of Andy & Maggie in the phone booth is good. I think Andy is too good a brother and kinda stupid as well as to why he wants to sacrifice himself.
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MCT:April 10, 2008Esperen... esta pelicula no es "Mean Streets", pero en Hong Kong? Y con romance?No importa, igual es todo... aunque las actuaciones sean muy malas...
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MCT:February 21, 2008
not best of wong kar wai's movies, but still interesting and beautiful with fine music choices and actor work. i truly believe wong kar wai doesn't know how to make bad movies.
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MCT:January 20, 2007
This is Wong Kar-Wai's debut from 1988. Starring Maggie Cheung and Andy Lau. Fiited with typical 80's ambiant soundtrack and two narrtives told.
Being a wong Kar Wai fan I've tried to watch all of his movies over the past couple of months, this has to be incredibly different to the others I've watched. For one thing I haven't watched A Wai film with a gangster feel to it. It was a little odd to start with but for me it did feel realistic and probably very typical to Hong Kong in the 1980's, so, Wai diffently makes a stament there. I enjoyed the hard reality of this gangster feel. I mean when watched Hollywood gangster film I don't usually feel that I can't watch what's going on on screen as it just seems very typical. What Wai does well in his debut is that the violence seems very realistic and not delibertly done in such a wy that is for Hollywood and looses the realism.
Naturally there's no Chistopher Doyle's cinemtography in this film as it was his first but the cinempatography isn't bad but not great. Hand-held camera was used a lot so you felt like you were there in the film.
Unfortunatly what the movie falls up upon is the love story betwwen Andy Lau's character and Maggie Cheung's. To me it does seem a bit pointless. First of alll it just doesn't seem particularly geuined, almost like a fling but perhaps it could have meant to be that what or not; I just didn't understand that bit. Some of the characters I couldn't figure out, Andy Lau had a brother then he apprently has another younger one- too confusing.
Asides that, this is a good debut for the then 30 year old Wong Kar Wai you can diffently seen potential in this film.
Overall worth the watch if you're a Wong Kar Wai fan, just don't expect anything outstanding as In The Mood For Love. -
MCT:December 20, 2006Kar-Wai's debut, conducive to those who want to see where he started, and also to aid the appreciation of 80's ambient soundtracks.
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MCT:November 23, 2006Take my breath away. Sums the film up. The storyline sounds really corny, but it's so beautifully filmed, it makes up for it! Simple but beautiful in its own way.
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MCT:June 29, 2006Tears will go by as we cry ourselves to sleep the very night we expose ourselves to Wong Kar's car crash of today. The Cheungs make another cheque-signing casting call away from actorship and towards the gutter.
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MCT:June 5, 2006Typical 80s crime drama, done before and done better. There are flashes of Kar-Wai's talent, but it's sunk by the awful music and generic plot.
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MCT:June 5, 2006
Kar Wai Wong's first movie. Was made in the 80's and hasn't aged well. Nowhere near as good as his other works.
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MCT:June 5, 2006
The film is influenced by Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets", but of course contains some moments that would later become part of Wai's signature. The main draw back for the film is that it hasn't aged well, being very much a film of the 80's. The most disappointing aspect is the terrible repetitive 80's rock/synth soundtrack, that accompanies pretty much every scene. Thankfully after a while the music does fade into the background, and you learn to accept it. The fashions, and the gritty realism are also reminiscent of most 80's films. The lighting is also quite shocking early on in the film, as it changes between cuts during the same scenes, bright one moment and dark the next. Once the film gets going though it is hard to look away, with shockingly real violence and some well shot action set ups, such as the slow motion knife attack, and the gun down the trousers. The editing is well done (not as well done as Wai's later pieces), but slow motion is particularly well used. "As Tears Go By" never once gets boring despite its floors, and there are many, many more pros than cons, and it all adds up to a spectacular finale.
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MCT:May 2, 2006
Fairly violent generally. Supposed to be a love story to some extend, but I felt it was really rushed and not develop enough. Nice to see the era and culture of the 1980s in Hong Kong.
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