fwiw of the WKW films I’ve seen (In the Mood, Happy Together, Grandmaster, Days of Being Wild and a few minutes of 2046) I - apparently unlike most people - liked Days the best. I think the noir elements unify his drifting, dreamlike style very effectively and an itinerant womanizer with a tortured past is the antihero his style was made for.
I remember there was some controversy in the filmosphere a couple years ago over the WKW Criterion 4K restoration set changing the color scheme in a lot of Wong’s movies, which became doubly interesting with the revelation that he had personally supervised the restoration efforts and made conscious creative tweaks, George Lucas-style. That would be an interesting point of comparison for game remasters, etc.
I also just recently dipped my toes into Tsai Ming-Ling, who I guess works in a similar genre of impressionistic Hong Kong noirish dramas, and I might personally like him even better than WKW?? Gonna have to see Goodbye Dragon Inn, the one everyone says is his masterpiece.
exodus Curious to hear your beefs with those movies! Not liking something isn’t jerky imo, it’s part of an interesting exchange of opinions that challenges people to consider what they themselves do or don’t like and why rather than fall back on the complacency of groupthink. I remember one of Tim’s old ABDN submission prompts was “describe a game you don’t like that others do” and “describe a game you like that others don’t”. That’s interesting conversation!