Fallen Angels |
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[Duo luo tian shi]
Director Starring |
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One of the critical lines on this film is that it is WKW’s ‘quintessential work.’ I’m left wondering if it isn’t more accurate to say that it encompasses all aspects of WKW’s work, bigger, louder, & bolder: echoes of films past, unexpectedly interwoven storylines, virtuosic camerawork, and (for want of a more culturally discrete term) a kind of magical realism — his own mythology. All that, with much more bang and flash. This is not necessarily a criticism of the film, but somewhere in the shuffle this became one of the less compelling WKW films I’ve seen. There are many powerful and simply impressive scenes, no doubt about it. I just can’t quite put this in a category with the rest.
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