The Study On Aesthetic Style Of Wong Kar-wai’s Films

Due to the culture impact and integration between Chinese and Western cultures, the Hong Kong culture possesses a strong postmodernity. As a distinguished director in Hong Kong film industry. He presents a different image world for us via his maverick audio-visual language, and also illustrates extraordinary film aesthetics of postmodernity. Based on relative research, the thesis aims at discussing the functions and effects of various audio-visual elements by applying the analysis method of synthesis and splitting. In the meantime, this thesis discusses the personal style and features of Kar-wai Wong films.This thesis summarizes the postmodernity narrative features of Kar-wai Wong and elucidates stylized characteristics of his films. Summarize and classify the visual elements and the audio elements in his films, and then analyze those elements to sum up the personal style.This thesis is mainly integrated film ontology research with postmodernity culture research on the foundation of audio-visual language. Through the analysis of the postmodernity peculiarities of his films, such as non-linear narrative, marginalized personage image and sound montage, this thesis explores the ambivalence and motif of Kar-wai Wong films for modern life, feelings of rootless and adrift, desires of communication and rejection and the pursuing of hope in desperation. Therefore, this thesis is an integrated and comprehensive analysis of the aesthetic features and audio-visual elements of Kar-wai Wong films.Discussing the narrative features and analyzing the audio-visual elements of Kar-wai Wong films based on academic theories are conducive to a further understanding of film connotation as well as more angles of aesthetic values, which provide reference for the profound study of his films.