Admittedly, I’ve never given the films of Wong Kar Wai a
fair shake. I tried 2046 a few years
back and found it, at the time, to be a little inaccessible and didn’t finish
it. And from what I know about his style, I get the sense they require deep
focus and a high level of mental commitment. Probably they key is to see his
movies in the theater where there are no distractions. Anyone who wants to know
what happens when a director of Chinese melodrama tackles the martial arts
genre need look no further than The
Grandmaster. I suppose it’s almost inevitable that every Asian director
gets around to doing it at least once. But only Won Kar Wai can do it and make
it about something that isn’t really action-oriented at all.
