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In The Mood For Love Analysis

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Introduction
In the Mood for Love chronicles the story of an unlikely friendship and romance – two strangers living side-by-side in crowded, claustrophobic Hong Kong; initially drawn to each other by their suspicions of their respective spouses’ affair. The plot is relatively simple. The film starts off with Chow Mo-Wan (“Chow”) and Su Li-Zhen (“Su”) moving into the same building on the same day with their belongings mixed up by the movers, perhaps foreshadowing the inevitable intermingling of their lives that is soon to follow. The both of them soon discover that their constantly absent spouses have been cheating on them with each other, and their friendship is initially driven by their repetitive, even bordering on obsessive, re-enactment of what might have happened and what would happen next. The former seems to be one of the key themes of the film. Wong Kar Wai seems intent on exploring the human condition of regret and the tragedy of missed opportunities and moments, which also drives the rather unsatisfactory ending of the film. …show more content…

The mise-en-scène functions in order to recapture and preserve a forgotten era, for example in In the Mood for Love and 2046, the character of Su Li-zhen is clothed in a chengsam, a costume evocative of the 1960s, and the films follow the 1960s trend in East Asia of renting out rooms. The intratextual inclusion of the era of the 1960s into his works suggests that the auteur ‘has a coherent personality that appears in the production of the text’ (Staiger, 2003:33), permitting the spectator to derive the auteur’s personality from the text, due to the subconscious inclusion by the auteur. This idea is further enhanced due to the inclusion in In the Mood for Love of the Shanghainese dialect, which pertains to the personal expression of the auteur, since he spent his formative years in

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