Movie Analysis: Chungking Express

Movie is always known as the source of entertainment and knowledge as well. It is a way to let people know about life, people, places, culture, norms and general human behavior that we are not aware of. By watching a movie we can relate ourselves with the characters and the stories. I always like to watch movies. But the movie that I was asked to watch recently was never that I would choose to watch. However, it was great to know that a movie that is not fully classical can also turn out to be interesting and makes you go with the flow.

It was “Chungking Express” a movie of 1994. This is a movie with two different love stories which are loosely connected. This was the very first difference that I could notice about the film. Because classical

The protagonist and antagonist are not absolute. However, I think here, the cops are the protagonists who are the main characters in both the stories. In the first story, the girlfriend is the antagonist because he keeps struggling against her ignorance. The other lady who was the drug dealer could also be the protagonist because of the character she had. In the second story I think the depression and frustration is the antagonist because he keeps on fighting against his feelings that he has for his girlfriend. It is very difficult to find out who the antagonist is because this movie does not consist of much character. The only characters were the protagonists and few supporting characters which did not play a vital role and did not complement any of the other characters. Even the protagonists here were different from other protagonists of Hollywood narrative movies. In every classical Hollywood movie the protagonist is the person who saves the day and makes people surprise by his/her extraordinary qualities. They are strong, powerful and achieve the goal at the end of the day. In Chungking Express all the characters including the

It had a loose ending with less information at the end. In fact, the first story had no ending. It seemed like just another day of the cop and then suddenly he bumps to Faye and this is where the second story starts, introducing Faye who is one of the important characters of the second story. Both the stories left a question in the audience’s mind. The second story also creates confusion when they raised the name “May” who was the girlfriend in the first story. The ending was very loose and scattered leaving the audience free to think about the situations and a put conclusion. Different people will give different conclusion to it. The situation that they were in made them frustrated and depression covered them like a black cloud. They used to call random friend to hang out and even talked to the soap about its health. The cause and effect relation of this movie was very connected. As they two cops lost their love, they searched for new love to fight against their depression. And the effect was satisfactory as the got a new love that made their life better than it was