| In the 1990 of the 20th century Hong Kong movie circle is full of talents, actors, screenwriters, directors, under the tide of a new century for the audience to contribute a classic work. And as a leader in the new century youth directors, Wong Kar-wai’s film at the maverick style and meticulous keen powers of observation, to create a series of well-known works, becoming one of the high-profile director, the film industry in Hong Kong. Director Wong Kar-wai does not have plenty of works, but his works are famous with the unique themes, fragmented narrative mode, and accurate grasp on the lines and music, and composed a unique film language which was reflecting the strong characteristics of postmodernism.In his works, Wong Kar-Wai made a lot of scenes set in Hong Kong which is a special city, under the special multicultural background which is the reaction of marginalized people’s spiritual world in Hong Kong. However, in the creation story, Wong Kar-wai showed their empty spirit world and the complex emotional life by filming the bottom of society such as patrol, waiter, drug traffickers and other details of his life. Wong Kar-wai is good at figures and events separated from the real world, he used the underworld, old age, and even to construct his martial arts background story, aimed to show the crowd of postmodernism in interpersonal difficulties and obstacles. And those detailed description of the postmodern people, to highlight the final theme, pursuit and repulsion.In terms of narrative, Wong Kar-wai’s movie with the typical characteristics of postmodernism. Performance in the plot, that is, the broken fragments of mosaics, at a rupture tension of the conflict of the story. While in treatment of space and time, Wong Kar-wai selected a near-psychotic disorder of time and space. Then through innovative filming techniques and methods of spatial-temporal plane away from the traditional, he made Vision and memory, dream and reality, past and future become a plot of typical stream of consciousness.In the film’s visual effects, the most famous part is the dialogue in the movie. Many of his lines in a movie is still popular among young people. Wong Kar-Wai’s films audio-visual languages remodeling of real life, not only modified the film. Innovated and changed in the ordinary language, the traditional film language were constantly challenged and overturned, with dense postmodernism characteristics. Wong made the film to catch every detail, and tried to create a lot of new ideas from the picture, the environment, color, and so on.Post-modernism culture with a strong commercial because of the special background. And as an important branch of post-modernism, the postmodernist film also has a strong commercial character. And so as to the films of Wong Kar-wai. His works focused on the intersection of art and commerce, to showed the commercial art from the perspective of subject matter. This method is a typical post-modern artistic Tropism.In the movie world of Wong Kar-wai, broken pieces, aesthetics and non-linear narrative made his works are posted on the label of postmodernism. And the challenge of the movie is he made a lot of postmodernism characteristics, methods of overall in front of us, order to made a complex web of confusing work, which made you feel anxious to find out the truth even if you were so confused. |
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