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2046 2004
“Bai Ling is passionate, vulnerable, and wears her emotions openly. She desperately wants Chow to return her love, but this intensity pushes him away. Chow is drawn to women who are slightly out of reach, like the mysterious gambler (Gong Li) or the emotionally unavailable android (Faye Wong’s character in the sci-fi segments). Bai Ling, by contrast, gives too much of herself, and Chow, fearing emotional entanglement, distances himself.
There’s an irony in how Chow treats Bai Ling—he once suffered…
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Blind Chance 1987
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Blind Chance explores how much of our lives is shaped by
choice versus random events. The film’s structure, a single moment splitting into three alternate
realities, felt like a cinematic visual illustration of the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect is
basically where a small decision, like catching or missing a train, ripples into vastly different
outcomes. This butterfly effect idea that our lives and futures can be completely altered because
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Boy Meets Girl 1984
I’m indifferent to you but that’s not indifferent to me. I love loving you but my heads a mess. It took us a while to love eachother equally. I watched your love catch up with mine and when it did, a tune started going round in my head. You know I love it when we kiss. But then the time went: what’s she doing here? Who’s that monster? How dare she touch me with her mouth? She must think I…
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