2046
I’ve been looking forward to seeing this film by Wong Kar Wai for ages, ever since I heard that he’d directed a kind of sequel to In the Mood for Love. Like its prequel, 2046 is a languid, sensual film that takes its time to unfold, and very little actually happens. If you like action films that are packed with explosions and plot twists, this probably isn’t for you. The film plays with time in many ways. In several places, captions intersperse snapshots of one of the characters frozen in some activity: ‘one hour later’, then ‘100 hours later’, then ‘1000 hours later’ and in between, a writer is poised with his fountain pen above the page, trying to finish a story. I think we’ve all been there in one way or another.
