#CHUNGKING EXPRESS PINEAPPLE MOVIE#

> he then reveals that he has just recently broken up with May, and he calls May's parents on the phone 'just wanted to say hi' 55 hours later, I was in love with this woman.' Cop 223 is starved for attention - begins with him talking about being in love with a woman he brushed past, whose name he doesn't even know: Though the ending initially seems uncertain, with Faye writing out a boarding pass on a napkin for Cop 663, the music hints at an optimistic future.' - 'Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of' Brooke McCorkle They are finally able to express their feelings directly, unmediated by music. It is his aural memory of her and the carefree joie de vivre she represents.ДЄs the couple struggles to communicate, Cop 663 turns down the stereo's volume. For him, it represents Faye, adventure, hope, and change. Rather, its meaning has been transformed by Cop 663's appropriation of it. > 'Though we are still aligned with Faye's point of audition, the song itself no longer represents her desires. This narrative indeterminacy regarding sound corresponds to the aleatoric nature of life' - Brooke McCorkle 'Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of'Д®nds with the song 'California Dreamin'' which is symbolic of Cop 663 and Faye's love - it played when she was showing him signs of affection, cleaning his room, then in the end a year later, he was still playing it when he was remodelling. We are often uncertain if the music is diegetic or nondiegetic. 'In Chungking Express, music is acousmatized. when she turns up the music really loud when she's working so she can't hear anything else.ДЇrench film sound scholar Michel Chion - when we hear a sound but do not see its source, the sound is acousmatic. > The song: 'California Dreamin'' - symbolic of the exciting, love-filled life Faye yearns for, and also her escapism and coping mechanisms - e.g. > beginning with the repeated theme (of the first story) of the Baroque piece by Michael Galasso unconventional: the first narrative has an unresolved ending!! >Both protagonists are cops, both are oblivious and dispossessed - these themes and human experiences transcend the barrier of individual personhood >Voice-over: tells the audience how we are supposed to read the film, draw parallels. 1-year sell-by date & boarding pass for a year from now O fragmented narrative being connected through theme and PARALLEL - e.g. 6 hours later, she was in love with another man.' This is interesting as it is a repeated line he says about him and the woman in the blonde wig at the start of the film 'At our closest point, we were just. the transition between the two stories is at the deli where Cop 663 crosses paths with Faye: he narrates: 'At our closest point, we were just 0.01cm apart. Places where people pass through the place but don't occupy it - it is always changing.Д®.g. O Characters' paths cross all in spaces - spaces of transit. >Twin narratives (two heartbroken cops) double settings (2 Californias.) two stories that intersect somewhat (BUT NOT REALLY - NO NOT MEANINGFULLY INTERACT!) - two different protagonists who don't interact with one another but have a mutual similarity: the snackbar and Faye accidental meetings: cop 223 bumping into the blonde woman, and cop 663 meeting Faye by chance in the Midnight express. Contingency replaces causality - 'In a plot populated by strangers, contingency replaces causality.' 'In most narratives, as causality slackens, parallelism fills the gap.' (David Bordwell)Д®.g. O Not driven so much by cause-and-effect (more by CHANCE AND FATE).

#CHUNGKING EXPRESS PINEAPPLE MOVIE#

but when it switches narrative and protagonist it becomes clear that the movie will not have a classic narrative structure. O Classical: Clearly defined protagonists with goals the closeup shot of the clock changing from 8:59 pm to 9:00 pm.

55 hours later, I was in love with this woman.' > link between chance and love. We may not know each other but we could be friends someday.'Д®.g. beginning: Cop 223's narration: 'We rub shoulders every day. but also he draws attention to key themes

He introduces himself in voiceover 'My name is Hi Qiwu. Where does Chungking Express fit into this?

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