I love the smallness of the biggest emotion we know.
“ I love the stupidity of holding on to what has moved on. A review by DirkH (all hail bizarre virtual names!) I had come across for the film on Letterboxd starts off, Wong Kar-wai’s 1994 feature Chungking Express is a film that deals with rather similar elements. I fail to understand even now on how I fell for that girl in the first place a goddamn south-Indian! I cannot think of any logical explanation in defence of the great sin I had committed. Now, when I look back at it, I realize how stupid and unpredictable love can transform you into. Recommended: 31 Best Korean Movies Of The 21st Century This was something that I absolutely shouldn’t have done.
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While my friends, and with them, the vast majority of the students, would go and catch the latest Avengers movie in the cinema hall, I would stay comfortably cooped up in my small 3-bedded hostel room watching a critically-acclaimed Taiwanese New Wave film on my laptop. But for me, it equalled to the greatest of wrongdoings.įor I had always been someone who had prided himself on reserving an unique taste in the arts, especially in films. It might not have been such big an issue for others. The “revelation” obviously was that I had binged and strangely enjoyed (at least, I tried to) watching those absolutely idiotic, non-artistic, mainstream, and commercial south-Indian flicks. Not exactly a revelation, but I found myself rather dumbstruck by the sheer stupidity of it. Introspecting on all the reasons where I had possibly gone wrong, I came to terms with a rather strange revelation. Lost, and beaten, I was down in the slumps. And with that, I painfully came to the realization that she might not have been really into me. Well, of course, she did not find anything out of the ordinary in that. That, in the long run I believed, would be critical in getting me past the confusing “friendship” phase to that of the more romantic relationship I was aspiring for. Heck, I was so swayed by my apparent “love” for her, that I even started watching Telugu films featuring her favourite actor, secretly hoping that she’d be more impressed by my devotion towards her. Recommended: 5 Best Korean Movies On Amazon Prime I used to carefully wrap those words in my heart, and go back to my hostel-room, where I usually played it on a continuous loop in order to extract and scrutinize every possible meaning it had carried with it.
Time would temporarily stop, making every single word coming out from her mouth oh-so lovely and exquisite. When I used to go out with her, it was as if the whole world outside would quieten up, silently occupying a less-important background space. On the days when she’d leave me on read, I would normally switch and play some heart-shattering John Mayer tracks, puff a cigarette, and cry virtual tears while scrolling through her pitch-perfect facebook account. Even obsessed to an extent, I would carefully notice every little of her movement both in real life, as well as in social media. Either way, I was definitely head-over-heels for this girl. Love I’m not sure how many of us truly understand the real meaning of the word, so it might be too misleading a word to start off with. When I was in the freshman year of university, I fell in love with a South-Indian girl. While making Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai showed absolutely no remorse for the flag-bearers of the conventional narrative form, in the process combining essentially an action flick with an out and out, whimsical and the sweetest of rom-coms.
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