![]() It might even be said that Wong tells the same story twice, but he changes so many details that we might not immediately realise that this is what is happening.īoth stories involve a cop who has broken up with his partner, and who is having a hard time moving on. While the two stories are only tenuously connected by the plot, there is a unity in their subject matter. Here the stories both last for as long as they need to. The downside of portmanteau movies is that some stories end before the audience can fully enjoy them, which is why there are so few classic portmanteau movies. However the decision to drop the Fallen Angels story from this film does allow the two stories to breathe more. By contrast two stories of uneven length may confuse the unprepared viewer. Another story would have made Chungking Express into a portmanteau film (a film made up of several short stories), a more familiar stylistic device. This is unfortunate in terms of the artistic unity of this film. ![]() The director Wong Kar-wai had intended the film to include a third tale, which he instead made into a different film, Fallen Angels. They both involve police officers who attend the same snack food store, and that is the only connecting strand in the stories, at least in terms of the narrative. ![]() There are two stories in Chungking Express, and confusingly they are told one after another with seemingly little connection.
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