Filmmaker reacts to In The Mood For Love (2000) for the FIRST TIME!

[@JamesVSCinema]

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[@ll-yg2dn]

Watch Chungking Express, it's from the same director.

[@Ellie-i7q-t5w]

No one has reacted to this movie before you, which is such a shame because In the Mood for Love is a cinematic masterpiece. It's the second in a trilogy of independent stories all starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. If you get to see Everything Everywhere All at Once, you will notice a scene similar to one in this movie. It's an homage to Wong Kar-Wai. Edit: Ore Monogatori. Absolutely love that anime! Beautiful love story between two friends and between a boy and a girl.

[@vermillionswann508]

i remember at the time it came out so much was made about her 23 dresses or whatever the number had been, subtle but impactful wardrobe

[@helvete_ingres4717]

slight correction as to that 'trilogy' - the first one, Days of Being Wild, is starring Leslie Chung not Tony Leung, and the 3rd one, 2046, is quite possibly *the* most self-reflexive or 'meta' film a director has ever made with regards to their own work and is also a direct sequel to in the mood for love (tony leung is the same character) so 'independent' it is not, it depends very heavily on the director's other films (so I wouldn't recommend it to someone who hasn't seen them)

[@MrAndrew31695]

Chunking Express and Fallen Angels please, Wong Kar-wai is a legend

[@davewolf6256]

Do memories come with expiration dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries. Yes, that was my High School yearbook quote!

[@ayush9791]

Is it similar to in mood for Love?

[@joeygalateo5246]

@@ayush9791 i think the style is very similar in some ways but thematically they are different

[@saidsad1096]

I used to watch this movie every weekend when I was suicidal couple years ago.. he restored faith in love I was lost and uplifted my spirit. Best romance movie ever made.

[@enso7890]

Glad you're better now.

[@iinarrab19]

When you mentioned, "I feel that you have to be intimate." I chuckled because the director led you to the the film that is the definition of EDGING but never getting the release. You want them to be intimate, you want them to do it, and the film tried to lead you on to that and didnt give you. That's why you felt pain too as a peeping Tom. The framings are basically to make you feel you are prying in their secret affair and that they are afraid that you may catch them. Brilliant directing.

[@janpuhar9614]

The craziest thing about this is that for all its measured frames and careful construction, the majority was shot over like 12-18 months without a plan, just coming up with it on the day. WKW just looking for inspiration. Literally had no script on set either. The guy is one of a kind.

[@lithantushelo7932]

I was thinking of this when he made the comment about the shot inwhich we see em through bars, reminded me of a BTS video with Christopher Doyle talking about how they were looking at the location trying to figure out the most interesting way to shoot it.

[@JamesVSCinema]

That’s actually truly inspiring.

[@terrytang5367]

We all love Wong Ka Wai except his producer.

[@angeldjambazov2756]

Wong Kar-Wai captures longing and the ephemeral nature of memory, better than any other director. In The Mood for Love, Chunking Express, and Ashes of Time each have some of my favorite intimate moments in cinema. Love how hooked you were in his compositions. They are like individual paintings to me.

[@Skip-Kilat]

WKW is the god of loneliness and longing 😁

[@trevorwhite7314]

There’s a really good nerdwriter video about how most of the movie’s shots are within frames like doorways or windows. The movie like a lot of Wong Kar-Wai movies has an excellent way of creating and maintaining a tone for a long period of time. There are a lot of good movies about doomed love but this has to be one of the best.

[@xavvi]

I was just going to bring that video up. It's really hard not to notice the frame within a frame in almost every scene. This is one of the most gorgeous films I've ever watched, I was just entranced by it the entire time.

[@luke9947]

This is actually the second part of a trilogy with “Days of being wild” and “2046”. But my favourites by this amazing director are “Chungking Express” and “Happy Together”.

[@majorjane1995]

I searched "in the mood for love reaction" with little faith there would be any videos about it (despite it being a popular movie among film lovers) and Im glad this exists!!!

[@SidPhoenix2211]

I love that the last shot of the movie shows a similar cavity on a rock, places it in the foreground, in front of the viewer. It presents the viewer with a choice: either go and do something about what you feel, with your secret... Or whisper it into this wall, seal it up, and walk away. And I think that's just beautiful. We all have some secrets, wishes, and regrets Some we might want to be found out, others not so much. The movie shows you this pretty tragic, doomed romance, and then asks what your choice will be.

[@Hejeval]

One of my absolute favorite movies ever... It is impossible not to cry, especially since I had a sort of romantic relationship with a girl that I never really kissed but we had feelings for each other and she is still the love of my life...

[@theblobconsumes4859]

One of the best film directors out there. I recommend other films from this director, too. Especially Fallen Angels and Chungking Express. Also yes, I was aware of Monogatari, just hadn't seen it. Krzysztof Kieślowski's works, namely the Three Colors Trilogy and Dekalog, are ones I highly recommend.

[@odasdefe]

Probably my favorite movie ever. Thank you for reacting to it!! Oh and if I'm not mistaken, those ruins at the end are of Angkor Wat, in Cambodia.

[@urmintrude]

Great choice! Beautiful movie and not the kind you normally see in yt reactions. I love the ending to this one so much.

[@wyatt5083]

Great hearing your thoughts on this one. Wong Kar-wai's whole filmography is worth diving into. One of the all time greats.

[@MrsTuppence]

Hi from Central America, James, this is why I love your channel, you give the opportunity to this kind of films, most people would find it boring, about nothing, when in fact the story is the frame, in the colors, camara movement, in the actors face expression. Amazing. Excited for everything everywhere all at once, you're gonna love it.

[@pitmatix1457]

Wong Kar Wai is an absolute genius. In the Mood for Love is in my top ten favourite films but another one of his "ChungKing Express" is my all time second favourite after "Seven Samurai". Both films show Hong Kong in their respective eras so well. ChungKing Express shows the crowded kinetic nature of 90's Hong Kong as well as In the Mood for Love captures that very 60's elegance.

[@adroX17]

Saw this when I was far too young to get what was happening - might've been the first movie to leave me feeling empty thinking, "wait, that's it?" More than a decade later - after living, loving and all that - that empty feeling I'm left with at the end makes so much more sense to me.

[@maladjustedmoon5200]

Yay! Wong Kar-Wai is on the shortlist of best directors alive, and Chungking Express is one of my favorite movies.

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

All the leaves are brown 😏

Thank you very much for allowing yourself to get to know Wong Kar-Wai’s world, beginning with his masterpiece ITMFL ❤️This movie is mesmerizing, as well as Wong’s filmography! One more time: thank you for taking your time to react to this… I was waiting for a long time for someone to react to some WKW, and only you could do that! ❤️

[@beckyjohnston6456]

Thank you so much for reacting to films that are off the beaten path for a lot of KZbin reviewers; I really appreciate it. :) To me, "In the Mood for Love" is one of the perfect movies. There's not a frame, not a line, not a second I would change - every time I watch it, I find something new, and feel it all over again. If you're interested, there is a sequel of sorts to this film called "2046". Thank you again!

[@GlennLaycock]

Yes, this movie was scripted as "2046" but it was just getting to be "too much" and the investors were wanting payback soon - so 2046 was broken off.

[@kingking10101]

The reason that this film is beautiful is because it was shot by the great Christopher Doyle who was the DP in arguably the most beautiful film ever i.e HERO and of course notably in many of wong kar wai's films as well!.

[@StarCastersUniverse]

You have no idea how quick i came seeing the title. This movie opened my eyes w frames and composition as a storyboard artist. Its so good

[@JamesVSCinema]

You’d have lots of references! Hopefully I dove into it enough in this video!

[@StarCastersUniverse]

@@JamesVSCinema you did! I’m so proud. Especially the intimate framing comment, another film analyst on youtube mentioned how sometimes (if not most) throughout the film you feel like you’re “watching them” like you’re one of their neighbours. Like you know there’s dishonesty from their partners so u gossip as u see them from behind or from a corner. It’s so cool

[@doltonkenway1056]

One of the best film's of all time!! glad you watched this brother

[@Atom-E.B.E.]

I categorize cinema into 3 categories: movies, films, and pictures. This film is a picture.

[@amileoj9043]

Excellent analysis in comparing In the Mood for Love with Lost in Translation, and in calling attention to how much of the film turns on the brilliant shot composition in exraordinarily tight frames.

[@IsThisThePrizeIveWaitedFor]

This is one of my favorite movies. I love the contemplative experiential nature of it. Also, stories of a love that can never be always get to me in a deep way.

[@icyboi13]

You had such a thoughtful reaction to this film! It’s one of my favorites & while I know it’s beloved, I wish it was more talked about. It’s just… art. It’s a movie that truly can feel & be interpreted different based on when you see it. 💜

[@benshepherd5483]

Has anyone else noticed the hole in the final shot? Wong Kar-Wai has given the audience the opportunity to whisper our secrets. Genius film making! So glad that someone has finally reacted to this masterpiece.

[@movieswithsammykitty]

One of my all time favorite movies! Wong Kar Wai is an exceptional filmmaker. His films have so much style. This film is full of so much quiet beauty and longing. It’s achingly beautiful. I love all the lingering shots. Plus Tony Leung is so brilliant.

[@JamesVSCinema]

Beautiful style! Definitely excited to see more from his work!

[@movieswithsammykitty]

@@JamesVSCinema I think you would absolutely love The Grandmaster. Chunking Express is another great one. You can’t go wrong with him though 😁.

[@clintonwilcox1400]

Tony and Maggie were also in a very early Wong Kar Wai film called “As Tears Go By”. Not as obvious as Wai’s later work as “The Philosopher of Loneliness”, but has some of the same elements, as well as a study in loyalty.

[@Eric-ff4bf]

Great Reaction. I'm so glad to see someone reacting to Wong Kar Wai films. He really is one of the great film makers of the late-20th and early 21st century, in his own way as important as directors like Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, and the Cohen Brothers. But being from China/HK, he just doesn't have the big western audience. But his fellow directors understand just how great and important he is. Kudos to you, and as a developing film student, its great you have taken the opportunity to dive into the works of this genius

[@SidPhoenix2211]

This movie briefly, and subtly employs the use of a technique called step-printing. It gives the effect of motion feeling like it's sped up and slowed down at the same time. It's a really crazy, cool effect. Wong Kar-Wai uses that same technique MUCH MORE prominently in his other movie, Chungking Express. Another movie that you should check out, btw

[@omarjimenez8895]

Finally! Someone on KZbin reacts to this masterpiece!

[@trevorwhite7314]

Really great movie, also Chunking Express, Happy Together and Fallen Angels are worth a watch

[@sheilaomalley4055]

I always loved the placement of the camera - in a lot of scenes, the placement - kind of midway down - it's almost like it's from the POV of the radio.

[@okay6109]

YES MAN. JUST YES. WKW is my all time favorite director and I can't wait for this. I'd also recommend Fallen Angels, 2046, and especially Happy Together.

[@bawonsamdi]

OMG I'n so happy to see a reaction for a Wong Kar Wai movie. So so happy !

[@acadia5898]

this is one of my favorite movies. this has inspired me so much

[@alexisp910]

This is one my favorite movie and the most beautiful I have ever seen cinematography and music wise. Your analysis is really articulate, insightful and just brilliant. I had not paid attention for instance on the mastery framing of the couple to convey such palatable and powerful sense of intimacy. Thanks a lot for your brilliant view ! Btw, the temple at the end is Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The remains of a brilliant era for the Khmer empire. Slowly decaying now. Like this love story. PS : just watched another brilliant analysis by Alejandro Inarritu on that movie. He views is as a perfect movie

[@richerchristophe9996]

one of my favorit just a lesson of cinema...just acting , places , music , clothes just cinema....

[@garypaterson1477]

Thanks for this, love the sharing of your thoughts and observations, love the Tee and its sentiment, as always stay awesome, stay genuine... much love

[@jacobminor8810]

Another film I'd highly, HIGHLY recommend watching that's in a similar vein of intimacy is Yi Yi by Edward Yang. That's one I think you'd adore due to how much you love this film!

[@benjaminsedillo2779]

A Brighter Summer Day is one of my favorite films of all time, also a good one

[@nataki8776]

This was a great movie. It was such a gut punch at the end when they didn't end up together.

[@mancycle1]

So glad you reacted to this. All the Wong Kar Wai films shot by Christopher Doyle are worth checking out especially Chungking Express. When I was in film school in 1995, my friends and I got an underground copy of Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels but it was subtitled in Korean. It had not been released in the US. We watched it over and over even though we couldn't understand it. We were overtaken by the mood and visuals.

[@Its_ok_Rocky]

funny how the light in your room almost matched up with the frame at 17:00

[@JamesVSCinema]

Hahaha good catch!

[@andtheneverythingchangedwh5234]

Thank you for reacting to this beautiful film.

[@GlennLaycock]

Days of Being Wild (meandering train - memory); In the Mood for Love, and 2046 (with Faye Wong of Chungking Express etc) .. the trilogy "of sorts". Tony Leung was "barely" in Days of Being Wild, he was in what he said was his finest 2 minutes on screen in the epilogue (it was originally the footage they had set for the sequel that never was) where he does not speak a word but all his actions tell you every thing about his character (you just search, days of being wild tony leung).

[@kokliangchew3609]

The Hong Kong "Brief Encounter". But "In the Mood for Love" was shot more beautifully and the colour, camera shots are incredible. But both films share the same type of love, being married to the others but in love with one another, yet not wanting to consume their love. It really brings out what love is meant to be and what it can be.

[@acriticwithoutacause8983]

I'm always in the mood for In The Mood For Love

[@MyLifeIsDance18]

Another movie that I watched from Wong Kar-Wai that I really enjoyed was Chungking Express. I also love the way he expresses intimacy without going to the obvious way lol

[@mercurydylan899]

Fuck yeah! Now we’re talkin. One of my all time favorites

[@ll-yg2dn]

Actually it's the favourite film of Lost in Translation's director, Sofia Coppola.

[@Illuminatic]

Finally! Wong Kar-Wai, my beloved

[@yiannev]

This and Phantom Thread are my absolute favorite movies ever… sure there are others I adore like The Red Shoes or And Then We Danced or Dead Poets Society but nothing will ever beat those two movies. I was lucky enough to watch it on the big screen when I was like 21, a few years ago, I took a friend w me who had never watched it and they ended up in love w it. Absolutely gorgeous work by the one and only WKW.

[@matthewconstantine5015]

I love Wong Kar-wai films. Chungking Express was my first & it's great. In the Mood for Love is fantastic. I also really love Fallen Angels. Ashes of Time is the only one of his I've seen so far that I didn't super love. Maybe just because his style is a bit oil & water with the Wuxia genre.

[@rabbitandcrow]

Chungking Express is one of my favorites.

[@The_Evil_Zed]

One of my favorite movies. It's the definition of cinematic magic.

[@griffith1785]

Hand down my favourite filmmaker

[@biandito]

wong kar wai is fantastic! one of my favorites

[@antonioagregado]

i really wanted you to react to this for a long time! this is one of my favorite films ever! tony leung and maggie cheung are the best screen couple ever! they’re also the couple in hero (2002)

[@turtleandbear1179]

love your review! (and this movie btw.) your comments are very insightful

[@plutonian0612]

James, thank you... This upload really makes me happy.

[@johnradovich8809]

Bought his box set after seeing this film. Haven’t seen any others. Cannot imagine any others being as good let alone better.

[@elenavorobeva6747]

you are reviewing my dvd collection!😂🤘

[@Shawn-id7gc]

Cheers on this watch. Thanks for the attention on this film

[@MaciejCzub]

I've enjoyed following your journey into more sophisticated and importantly, often European and Asian cinema. First "Stalker" now a gem from Wong Kar-Wai. Keep this direction, because not many people reach for such films nowadays. "Chungking Express" seems like a logical next step. Three Colors trilogy from Kieslowski, Romanian "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", and something from Von Trier - "The Idiots", "Breaking the Waves". Keep pushing forward because it's worth it.

[@MaciejCzub]

@@starlight0002 This is a bit of a provocative question. I don't like to pigeonhole and can easily point out more sophisticated American films (vide C.Kaufman, H.Korine, D.Lynch, P.T.Anderson) . However, there is no denying that American directors make films exposed to more pressure regarding the commercial effect of their films. Not everyone can resist this pressure.

[@geoffreysmart6801]

I understand what you're saying about how the film would still look great in b&w because of how amazing the composition is, but the use of color here is some of the best ever.

[@bobbyb8005]

Yes my man! I love Wong Kar-Wai, he’s got such a cool style. It’s the lenses he uses, and that slow shutter speed effect or whatever it’s called, it just looks so dope! Definitely check out Fallen Angels, I absolutely love that movie. Thanks for checking out all these foreign films my dude!

[@turtleandbear1179]

i have seen a handful Wong Kar Wei movies but Fallen Angels for the first time this year. absolutely loved it. this is a well established opinion, but WKW and Christopher Doyle and William Chang (editor) is such a power trio!!

[@viarnay]

And the casting is fantastic..Tony Leung is a beast :- D

[@mrIamspacemonkey]

One of the greatest.

[@jacksonmay153]

The MOST beautiful love story EVER told on film.

[@melanie62954]

The first time I watched this film I'm sad to say, I was a bit bored. It took a second time (or maybe a few more years of experience) for me to appreciate its exquisite beauty. Love how you pointed out how the camera creates intimacy in the framing. I'm surprised no one has pointed out yet that Tony Leung made his Hollywood debut in Shang-Chi last year. His gravitas totally made that movie. He and Maggie Cheung are also in Zhang Yimou's Hero with Jet Li. I highly recommend that one, along with Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express.

[@XSpiegel]

YES, finaly. Been nagging you for ages about WKW:p Hope you continue checking out his movies further on or off the channel.

[@SuperTigger1999]

YOOOOO THIS MOVIEEEEE YESSSS

[@candigram8588]

Will somebody please tell me what OG stands for? xxx

[@InvisibleMag]

respect for biggin up WKW. top don of HK cinema

[@mrtveye6682]

@James VS Cinema Many thanks for reacting to one of my favorite films from one of my favorite filmmakers. Wong Kar-Wai ist so underrated in the western world, and it's sad that most of the reaction channels shy away from lesser known films/directors.

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

I'd be the happiest little camper if you did a Chungking Express or Fallen Angels video for us. I like Wong most when it's these grimier, choppier edited stories, as opposed to stately, pristine Wong.

[@helvete_ingres4717]

I feel exactly the same, I prefer his more experimental MTV-style movies (basically the two you named) - this feels more like a step towards hollywood-style melodrama and an emphasis on static composition over the dynamic camera and anarchic spirit that distinguished those earlier films from the '90s. Though I totally understand if he kept making movies like chungking express for the rest of his career he would have become a gimmick film-maker and I totally respect his artistic vision is broader than that.

[@bespectacledheroine7292]

@@helvete_ingres4717 I love Hollywood style melodrama don't get me wrong but he feels his most comfortable when he's doing mind-bending stuff. It just works for him.

[@helvete_ingres4717]

@@bespectacledheroine7292 yeah me too, I totally tried to love this film, I watched it twice and while I could find it moving, esp. the final scene, it hasn't exactly clicked for me that way. I suspect too this one is more about a middle-aged mentality, for people who've been thru marriage and stuff, whereas his more dynamic films are more youth-oriented. So I can always revisit it at another stage of life - that's one beautiful thing about film, art in general. I can appreciate that it's all about negative space, love unrealised and things that never happened, also resonates with the composition where things like characters' faces are omitted and everything happens off screen. And I appreciate it never offers a catharsis like a dream sequence where the would-be couple meet again (which I think a hollywood film would probably have done). Actually it does kind of seem to me like a film Bresson might have made if Bresson had gotten really into color (Bresson is an untouchable film-maker, unmatched in purity and naturalistic intensity). It does have a direct sequel which is very, very 'meta' and goes probably farthest into 'mind-bending' territory of all Wong's films (arguably self-indulgently so, since it's really his own relationship to his own work he's exploring)

[@Gumislove]

I've been waiting for this one! Glad you are watching this before Everything Everywhere All At Once, since there is some homages to this director.

[@rickydelgado8390]

Finally somebody reacts to this absolute masterpiece! You need to check out Days of Being Wild

[@hperspective]

Ohhhh I loooove your choices of movies 😍

[@aaronshouting588]

Chunking Express next please! 🙌🙌

[@HibiscusFlowerFC]

Possibly Greatest shot film of all time. One of the greatest movies of all time. And The greatest romantic seductive movies that is rated PG. This film in my opinion has so much replay value.

[@Mangolite]

Tony Leung and Maggie Chueng play star-crossed lovers in Heroe with Jet Li and Donnie Yen, which you reacted to about a year ago.

[@dragontears]

This and 2046, which is something of a follow up, get me so good. It's so good you watched this first tho.... :)

[@dylanbollinger6872]

Yes finally some Hong Kong cinema and hopefully some more Korean cinema to come.

[@dsinanan1]

Literal and visual poetry!!!

[@vermillionswann508]

sorry if i missed it but was there a reason why started with the middle film of the trilogy?

[@jason5388]

This one had the name recognition to win a poll on patreon. But it doesn't really matter. You can watch 'em in any order. 2046 is the only one that's an actual sequel but even it can be understood on its own and it was my first Wong Kar-wai film

[@vermillionswann508]

@@jason5388 aware of the connections of the trilogy, nice to start that journey so many treasures to discover. not just from Wong Kar-Wai, i know my own journey through Hong Kong cinema took many surprising paths from an odder beginning

[@dragontears]

@Jason's totally right. I watched 2046 first and basically went backwards with them, and it didn't seem to harm my love for them at all.

[@bklyncrook]

Not sure anyone comment, Lost In Translation was inspired by WKW, Sofia Coppola thanked WKW during her Oscar acceptance speech about his inspiration.

[@Skip-Kilat]

btw, james… the two leads in this movie also star in HERO. you can see how well they act together in both films…. Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung are 2 of the best actors of all time….. Tony was recently in the MCU too… Shang Chi’s villain also a bit of info, this is a HK film as compared to being called a Chinese film… which has a different kind of tone in terms if filmmaking, especially up to the early 2000s when HK was still influenced by Western style as HK was either still or was recently a British territory. they also have different languages (HK films are Cantonese, Chinese films are Mandarin). This is HK film, HERO is Chinese film, Crouching Tiger is Taiwanese (which is another different tone and is also Mandarin) the heyday of the best HK films are from the 70/80/90s. some of the best action films, kung fu films come from these era too. also, james… consider the master filmmaker… Akira Kurosawa…. Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, High and Low, Kagemusha…. you already reacted to his RAN

[@yours_eve2001]

The whole point was to find out on your own as the viewer though the amazing scenes, when they got intimate. Even the scene when she goes back to the room shows that they were sleeping together in the hotel. The number of the room is 2046. 2046 is another movie of the famous filmmaker that starts with a man saying that he loved a woman that left him. When he wanted to find her, he was going back to 2046. Meaning their memories. Apart from the beautiful shots everything has a meaning. Because they did not show a kiss or a sex scene does not mean the characters did not have any. The shot with them looking at each other implies their first time.

[@jaivirmalhotra15]

I just wanna be happy again man. I’ve been so down recently, because something so horrible happened about a month and a few days ago, and I’m just dying out here man. I don’t know when it’s gonna get better, but thanks for making my days always a little better James. Truly, thanks dude!

[@JamesVSCinema]

These videos will be always here brother, so will I man. Appreciate you

[@PhoenixFit2024]

You are literally watching one of the best living actors in the world. And I wonder if he’ll make the connection when he watches Anything Everything All The Time…

[@bulletfastspeed]

Love this movie. Chunking Express is great as well, and Fallen Angels is a fucking masterpiece (essentially a loose sequel to Chunking Express). Fallen Angels is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. But that being said, Everything Everywhere All At Once is easily my favorite movie of all time now, you gotta watch that shit in theaters before it's gone. Smoke if you want, even a psychedelic wouldn't be a bad idea, though I haven't done that lol. It's an experience. I didn't think I'd live to see a movie surpass Synecdoche, New York for me as my favorite movie, but here we are haha.

[@nalbis]

i actually loved what he did with the movie 'the grandmaster' usually people talk about his lowkey artsy films form the early 2000s/90s but the grandmaster was a far more recent great wuxia epic. very over the top and stylised retelling of the ip man story, feels a lot more mythology and fantastical over the donnie yen version

[@melanie62954]

I love Tony Leung in The Grandmaster. Such an amazing actor.

[@rabbitandcrow]

The Grandmaster is great. Wuxia movie as a gangster opera shot like a musical.

[@vincentjoyce5100]

Nobody else is reacting to this one. Great choice!

[@futo]

that's Tony Leung who starred in Shangchi

[@jessiegarcia6849]

Welcome to the mesmerizing world of Wong-Kar-Wai. He’s one of my top directors and has highly inspired countless of others including Quentin Tarantino and Barry Jenkins (Moonlight). There’s actually a KZbin video which shows shot for shot the direct frames Barry used in “Moonlight” taken from Wong’s other films, including using the same song he used in another. You can literally take any shot from In the Mood and make it a poster. Like watching paintings move. Also, as a gay man, he made my all time favorite gay romance film, “Happy Together”, the second being “Moonlight”. It still mind boggles me that a straight man could tug at my queer heartstrings that powerfully. Anyway, I could go on and one about him, please watch his other films whether as reaction or privately, and thanks for being one of the few who react to these art pieces. 👏🏼❤️

[@rabbitandcrow]

You are an absolute rock start for reacting to Wong Kar-wai movies.