In "Chung King Sen Lin", the men and women who rush to and fro, the sudden love, and the monologues like dreams, make people feel heavy in their hearts, there is a kind of loneliness in the crowd, and the ambiguous light and shadow of Wong Kar-wai are especially suitable for expression. These things, so these two loves that took place in the market, compared to his other movies, are very grounded and sexy. The one-night warmth between He Zhiwu and the female killer in the film is very similar to the normal state of Hong Kong people, but the pure and beautiful relationship between 633 and Affi is hard to find in a lifetime.
The two love stories in the film are not very exciting. One is a young girl looking for spring and the other is a girl who is pregnant. The theme is very common. The reason why "Chung King Sen Lin" can jump out is not only the light and shadow of Wong Kar-wai movie. The lines, and because the film’s story is set in Hong Kong, they are all foreign to the world. In addition, Wong Kar-wai’s dedication to details gave the movie a lot of points, such as those long mountain elevators, crowded vegetable markets, low-cost markets, and the Indians selling saris in Chungking Mansions, showing The vibrant side of Hong Kong ()
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The two stories told in "Chung King Sen Lin" have nothing to do with each other, and there is no intertwined plot. The film is full of a lot of voice-overs, but its voice-overs do not promote the plot, nor do they highlight the thinking about war in the sound and picture counterpoint like "Hiroshima Love". This kind of endless chatter is like a prayer to oneself, which just shows the spiritual realm and emotional state of a post-modern urbanite. Some people say that Hong Kong is the most typical post-modern city, and its pace of life is like the rapid switching of commercials, but Wong Kar-wai’s adoption of such a method reflects his nostalgic and alienated attitude towards urban life
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In the story filled with the atmosphere of the 1960s, the film has a deep sadness. "Chung King Sen Lin" are two silent love stories in the city, silently burying the cry in my heart, and hiding the cry for a slight time. In the film, the faces of young men and women are engraved with the label of loneliness, and this label revolves in their feelings. The marriage created by Wong Kar-wai carries the sadness that passed by
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