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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★★

  “Nothing lasts forever, anyway.”

  Wong Kar Wai’s only direct sequel is also his single greatest film, although calling “2046” a direct anything could be a misrepresentation of how scrambled this inwardly spiraling epic can feel the first time through. Tony Leung’s Chow Mo-wan — now a divorced, mustached, proto-Don Draper type who lives in a Hong Kong hotel and files garbage journalism whenever he isn’t busy negging on showgirls — tries to write his way out of the love story he continues to tell himself about his time with Su Li-zhen.

  That process is discursive and impressionistic, even by Wong’s usual standards; if “In the Mood for Love” flirted with symptoms of “Vertigo,” “2046” is so dizzying that it can…

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  Review by Ella Kemp

  “Love is all a matter of timing. It’s no good meeting the right person too soon, or too late.”

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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★★★ 75

  Two Oh Four Six is a nightmare that haunts you.
  Two Oh Four Six is a problem that can’t be solved.
  Two Oh Four Six is a rehearsal after the performance.
  Two Oh Four Six is an ideal that can never be realized.
  Two Oh Four Six is endless reexamination.
  Two Oh Four Six is a bird with no hope of purchase.
  Two Oh Four Six is time out of place.
  Two Oh Four Six is an excuse.
  Two Oh Four Six is hope that will never be fulfilled.
  Two Oh Four Six is your ideal self.
  Two Oh Four Six exposes you for what you really are.
  Two Oh Four Six is your biggest fear.
  Two Oh Four Six…

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  Review by Hungkat ★★★★★ 5

  Perfectly captures the essence of a person’s headspace as they’re grappling with the fact that they can never be with Maggie Cheung

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 1

  “All memories are traces of tears.”

  WONG KAR-WAI

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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★★ 10

  The true essence of loneliness is not felt when you're alone, but when you're surrounded by people you can't connect with. No one captures a mood quite like Wong Kar Wai, the narration and the cigarette smoke crawling in slow motion, opening and closing of doors, we are all under his spell, his mercy. Tony Leung, with or without the mustache, is always pleasant to watch. Faye Wong channeled a new level of energy with two different performances. (I Fell in Love with An Android, but That's OK) Maggie Cheung seemed to be centuries away, but her shadow is ever-present. I expected -- wanted -- in the mood for love 2. (or 3. What's the order of this trilogy again?) Turns out Wong Kar Wai's never contented with making the same thing twice. Still awesome.

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  Review by Christina ★★★★½ 1

  wong kar-wai’s lonely neon male gaze

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  Review by kailey ★★★★★ 7

  we spend so much time convincing ourselves that our troubles are singular and our souls are an island but i saw him cry on the train today and i knew that he was hurting too. maybe we've all been broken and the point isn't to pick up the pieces but just to feel the shards and know that you're still breathing despite it all.

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  Review by Cory ★★★★½ 11

  "Why can't it be like it was before?"

  The haunted question that echoes throughout 2046's runtime. A man searches for a special connection that may no longer exist—only to find slight fragments of that link in subsequent lovers left in his wake.

  An appropriate last stop in the World of Wong Kar-wai. 2046 feels like the summation of every film that came before it: sublime visuals; an overtly melancholic story; a beautiful score. There are narrative tie-ins to the previous two films in this loose trilogy, & a nod or two at Chungking Express. That's not to say it isn't original, either—fresh elements of eroticism & science fiction occupy screentime by way of a serial penned by our lover-turned-playboy main character. "2046"…

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  Review by k ★★★★★ 2

  why do i keep doing this to myself it hurts so fucking much

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  Review by Kyle Turner ★★★★½ 2

  Wong Kar-Wai really said, "have you ever had your heart broken so badly by Maggie Cheung that you become an emo fuckboi sci-fi writer?"

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  Review by Peaceful Stoner ★★★★★ 74

  True Love is a Birthmark of a Soul. When a person falls in love, truly, he is reborn, into a World of two people, a train of thought where every cell of you connects with the other. He is born into a World of hope and a future blossoming with happiness. He experiences to the fullest extent, every minute of her life with him, his life with her and the life they share. He does not worry about the past, his financial instabilities, neither his present predicaments nor does he doubt whether this will last forever. When In love he lives in the moment as every moment has the potential to be a cherished memory in the future no matter…