Wong Kar-wai , which has always pursued elegant temperament and sense of alienation, chose the surreal theme that describes the love of a killer. In Wong Kar-wai's work list, "Fallen Angel" attempts to show the chaos and pain of everyone's inner world by describing the sense of distance between people. The strange and intimate relationship between the protagonists casts a strong tragic color on the whole film.
interlocking plot
"Fallen Angel" tells the story of a group of killers. Before, they did not know each other, but developed feelings that ordinary people cannot understand. In the film, Wong Kar-wai tries to cleverly connect the lives of the five killers with love through two parts, forming a wonderful closed loop.
Although Angel No. 1 and Angel No. 2 have never met, they are a golden combination of "working" together. Angel No. 2 feels in love with Angel No. 1 due to the loneliness and curiosity that comes from unknown. That day, Angel No. 1 was preparing to wash his hands in the golden basin and met Angel No. 5. Through her, she met Angel No. 2. The two lonely people already had a good impression of each other, but Angel No. 1 knew very well, "The best partner should not have feelings." Finally, Angel 1 tried to do it alone without Angel 2, but was shot to death.
The weird Angel No. 3 happened to meet Angel No. 4 who was broken. They made an appointment to take revenge on their boyfriend who cheated on No. 4. Through a series of bizarre experiences, Angel No. 3 was moved by Angel No. 4. Later, when the two met again, Angel No. 4, dressed as a flight attendant, seemed to remember him at all. No. 3 met No. 2, who was also lonely, and the two left together with inexplicable loneliness.
Wong Kar-wai's self-subversion
Before "The Fallen Angel", Wong Kar-wai's films always adhered to the traditional "start, inheritance, turn and end" narrative technique. The story is told steadily, and everything is told slowly.
However, in "The Fallen Angel", Wong Kar-wai broke his usual techniques, and his narrative perspective was scattered among the five main characters. The seemingly fragmented story makes this film abstract and difficult to understand. Combined with Wong Kar-wai's unique lens language and line design, the relationship between the five killers is vividly expressed.
Wong Kar-wai's lens uses
Emotional depression and relationship alienation are the main tone of this film. Wong Kar-wai, who has always emphasized artistic conception, boldly uses alternative shooting techniques in the film - using wide-angle lenses on a large scale.
When the wide-angle lens is aimed at the exaggerated and deformed faces of the protagonists, it is clearly two people standing together, but they feel that the distance between them is 100,800 miles apart, which creates a strange sense of space alienation, especially the coordination of the wide-angle lens and the light in the indoor drama, which brings a bit of psychedelic color of time and space disorder.
Takeshi Kaneshiro 's unique appearance
In "Fallen Angel", Wong Kar-wai unexpectedly chose Leon Lai, Karen Reis , Takeshi Kaneshiro, Yeung Caini and Karen Mok to play the role of five "angel killers". If you look back at the current standards, Leon Lai and others are a little awkward in both acting and emotional venting, but Takeshi Kaneshiro, who worked with Wong Kar-wai for the second time, performed well.
Kanishi Takeshi Angel No. 3 is already more complicated than others. In the film, although he is a mute, he likes to break into other people's houses and to force others to buy and sell. The large number of scenes makes the image of a killer who is somewhat nervous because of being suppressed and forced by life become more three-dimensional. The kind of that silently contributes to the relationship, but cannot get the other person's attention, which makes people feel pity.
It can be said that the wonderful performance in "Fallen Angel" is the peak of Takeshi Kaneshiro's personal acting skills. Even the later "City Never Sleeping", "Red Cliff", and " Taiping Wheel ", Takeshi Kaneshiro could not surpass his previous perfect performance.
