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Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
10/15
10/15:
I was following the story of Chung Hing sam lam (Chungking Express) for a good while during the first forty
minutes, and then all of a sudden, the horses had been changed in midstream.
From there on, I was confused, trying to figure out whether or not the people were the same because I normally couldn't tell
Asians apart. Hence, the more appropriate English title should've been Chungking Pointless.
The movie is about an intellectually disabled girl with ADHD symptoms falling in love with a traffic cop who can't put two
and two together to save his own life. In short, it's a Hong Kong version of Jean-Luc Goddard's
À bout de souffle.
The cinematography works, but the director tries too hard to score points for being cute which proves to be the film's undoing.
Because there's no story, there's nothing to look forward to except for the ending.
All in all, Chungking Pointless falls apart due to the ill-advised gimmick by featuring two unconnected stories
in the same film.