About Wong Kar-Wai's Film

Human beings have never stopped pursuing beauty ever since hominids wore fells and bones made from beasts, or adorned themselves by painting animal bloodstain on their bodies. Moreover, man has industriously been digging deeper, further beauty, not only externally, but internally; not only materially, but spiritually.However, what is beauty itself is abstract, and relatively windy. Although the concept of it has been studied and discussed since its birth, no verdict has been achieved yet.Oriental aesthetics emerged no later than occidental aesthetics, whereas it didn't come into system; even aesthetics itself is an exotic word. It seems that till today the former is still deemed as an appendage to the latter. However, the knowledge and understanding of beauty for easterners and westerners are not quite the same because of their different cultural traditions.Nevertheless, it is difficult for westerners to understand beauty. It is because they tend to define sensitivity by logical or conceptual approach, whereas the meaning of sensitivity lies in the fact that it cannot be defined by any logic or concept; it is also because they are used to equaling the aesthetic object to a simple experience or fact, whereas the secret of the object consists in the fact that it is not a simple experience or fact at all. Therefore, they can never grasp the essence of beauty.The key to understand beauty is that it's not purely sensible, but also not purely sensitive; it is both sensible and sensitive. For the westerners whose sense and sensibility is schismatic, the both sensible and sensitive beauty throws them into an embarrassing condition that hero has no place to use force; the deductive and inductive methods they are always proud of do not apply well this time. However, it is now the time for the oriental aesthetics to show its unexampled strong points.With the development of techniques movie has entered human life since its birth on December the 28th. 1895 as a new form of aesthetics, and has...