2046 (Film)

• Tony Leung Chiu Wai: Chow Mo -Wan
• Gong Li: Su Li- Zhen
• Zhang Ziyi: Bai Ling
• Faye Wong: Wang Jing Wen / Android on the train
• Carina Lau: Lulu / Mimi / Android in the train
• Takuya Kimura: Tak / Wang Jing Wen's friend
• Chen Chang: Mimi's friend
• Wang Sum: Mr. Wang / platoon leader
• Ping Lam Siu: Ah Ping
• Maggie Cheung: Su Li- Zhen 1962
• Thongchai McIntyre: Bird
• Jie Dong Wang Jie -Wen

2046 is a melodrama from 2004, directed by Wong Kar- Wai, who also wrote the screenplay and produced the film.

Action

Prologue: The earth is encompassed in the year 2046 by an endless rail network. Also, there is a mysterious place called 2046, which is said that there never will change anything. However, no one was able to confirm, since no man has returned from this site - with the exception of a Japanese named Tak who is traveling in a train to 2046 to leave. This train then travels through the territories of " 12-24 " and " 12-25 " ( synonyms for Christmas), where it is so cold that the passengers have to warm each other on the train.

Singapore in 1966: A man named Chow asks the love of his life Su therefore, to accompany him to Hong Kong, he is rejected by her. As Chow arrives later this year in Hong Kong, breaking shortly afterwards from the uprisings against British colonial power. In Hong Kong, Chow lives in a hotel and a columnist for a newspaper. Christmas 1966 he meets Lulu, whom he met as a dancer in Singapore, but this tells him that she would not remember him. He brings the now drunken Lulu to her hotel room. When he leaves the room, he noticed the room number 2046th Two days later, he returns to Lulu return their room key he had pocketed. The landlord Wang Sum explained that there was only one Mimi here and this is now no longer lives here. Chow would like to rent the room, but he discovers that in 2046 still needed to be renovated, but as long as he could relate the opposite room 2047. Later he learns that Lulu was stabbed to death the night before by her jealous boyfriend.

As room 2046 is ready, Chow has already accustomed to room 2047 and stays there. In room 2046 he hears voices often by a woman. This is to Jing -Wen, who is the elder daughter of the landlord. She has a Japanese as a friend what her father but does not want to accept. The younger daughter of the landlord is the precocious Jie -Wen, the Chow imposes itself, but is rejected by the latter.

On May 22, a curfew is imposed in Hong Kong. Chow begins a novel with the title in 2046 to write, in which it comes to love and to people who risk everything to get to the place in 2046. As the uprisings have ended in September, the normality returns to Hong Kong apparently back.

In room 2046 now lives a new resident, the cabaret dancer Bai Ling, the Chow out to dinner on December 24, 1967. Both begin an affair, which he pays them after each meeting with money. Chow also continues to meet with other women, what does Bai Ling jealous. She wants a real relationship, but he refuses, whereupon they separate.

After the departure of her Japanese friend and a stay in hospital is Jing -Wen, the elder daughter of the landlord, back at the hotel. It shows Chow their self-written texts. Chow is passionate about their work and makes her his assistant. Together they write kung fu stories for newspapers. Chow begins to write for them a novel, in which the Japanese Tak is his alter ego. He stated that he would call the novel for them in 2047. On 24 December 1968, he invites Jing -Wen to dinner and makes her a phone conversation with her ​​boyfriend to Japan. Chow realizes that he and Jing -Wen are soul mates, but his desire remains unfulfilled after her, because she has lost her heart already at their Japanese friend. Chow gives Jing -Wen a copy of his finished novel 2047th Later, he learns that Jing -Wen will marry in Japan with her boyfriend. From her father, he learns that her novel has to be very much, but she found the end to sad and asks if he could change this. Chow said he would try it. However, Chow remains motionless sitting on the novel and can not change it.

18 months later Chow is called Bai Ling and they meet. Christmas 1969, he travels to Singapore and looking for his love Su in the casino, which was known as a professional player under the name " Black Spider " there. Since Su no longer shows up in the casino, it is believed that they have returned to their homeland Phnom Penh. He remembers how he the player Su Li- Zhen met in Singapore, which had the same name as the woman for which he had left in front of Hong Kong and with whom he previously met in a hotel room with the number 2046.

Background

The film continues, even if it is not a direct continuation of the story here greatly previous to Wong Kar- Wai's film In the Mood for Love on, also from the scenes in the movie 2046 be used. He also refers to motives of his film Days of Being Wild.

Director Wong Kar- Wai worked over a period of five years on the project. Immediately before the premiere in Cannes he had the film re-cut again, so that the premiere had to be rescheduled, and the film was delivered just hours before the premiere in Cannes. The premiere of the film took place in the competition of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2004. Theatrical release in Hong Kong was on 29 September 2004, in Germany on 13 January 2005.

In the film, a tribute to the 2003 deceased actor Leslie Cheung is included. That committed suicide by jumping from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel suicide. In the film 2046 a hotel comes with the name " Oriental Hotel " before, also referred to Cheung in two spoken offscreen sentences: " Once they had a Philippine lover, but he died. He was like a bird without wings. " This refers to the film Days of Being Wild, where semi - Filipino Cheung plays just such a lover.

In the original, the characters speak in different languages ​​: Sun, Chow Mo -Wan Cantonese, Bai Ling speaks Mandarin and Jing - Wen's friend and Tak speak Japanese.

Title 2046

The number " 2046 " has several meanings in the film, it refers to:

• The title of science fiction novel, which is written by Chow
• The name of the fictional town of this novel
• The number of the room in the " Oriental Hotel " in Hong Kong, where Lulu and later live Bai Ling. In addition, Chow does in the previous film In the Mood for Love a room with Su Li- Zhen ( another Su Li- Zhen as in this film ) with the same room number. Since the filming of both films were superimposed in part, to director Kar-Wai decided spontaneously to enter the room from In the Mood for Love, the number of different movie title. In the two originally planned as independent projects films, eventually formed out connections, so Kar-Wai, the two films referred to as " two chapters of a book ."
• The year in which Hong Kong is losing its special status within the People's Republic of China. The Chinese government pledged to the year 1996/97, that would not change anything on the status in the next 50 years. 2046 would therefore be the last year in which this assurance is still valid.

Reviews

" Again, the director has a virtuoso on the vocabulary of cinema, the camera elicits a hypnotic motion and places the images in a gentle, dreamy assembly. Tony Leung and his companions seem to float through the film. That 2046 seems almost kadriert more rigorous, not least the Cinemascope format owes. It reinforces the sculptural effect of fragmentation, Wong subjecting the faces and bodies. This concentration and recess gives the compositions a unique melodramatic precision. "

" Wong Kar- wai 's new film is undoubtedly his most sentiment Alster. And yet he celebrates the nostalgic look back on such a compromise, passionate way that you long after seeing the film feels a certain contempt for all the silly, happy functioning ones of the present. "

" The individual narratives tear off, reflect and extend in the sci-fi sequences later, they suddenly appear again. [ ... ] This movie does not care about realism and plausibility, it creates forms and images for non- identity. Herein Wong reached a virtuosity that is unparalleled. "

" An intoxicating eulogy to the power of longing love that weaves with associative cascade picture, dialogue and scraps of thought and a wistful music a melancholic narrative tapestry, whose fragmentary stories revolve around loss and grief. The masterful film passage through time and space borders on the unconscious. "

Awards

2046 was awarded the European Film Awards in 2004 for Best non-European film.