The film calmly looks at a special group in urban life, and uses beautiful images to show their broken lives. At the same time, the film also has a caring temperament.
The sense of alienation between people that Wong Kar-wai has always been concerned about comes to the fore in "Fallen Angels". In order to highlight this effect, the ultra-wide-angle lens is used in photography, so that the distance between people, people, and the space where people live is extremely deformed.
The identity of the characters in the film just happens to hide their identities. The identity of "Fallen Angels" is not to show the characters, but that they can better avoid a rule. In Hong Kong, they are always hidden. They also need to be hidden. Hidden identities is a melancholy metaphor for the human condition in Fallen Angels: the pain of man's unfettered freedom will always be with him.
"Fallen Angels" is Wong Kar-wai's continuation of "Chongqing Forest" and is another urban legend film with a new feeling. The film fictionalizes a certain group of people living in the city that is not noticed, and combines their lives and mental conditions with eerie and messy images. The film has a calm and onlooker vision, which expresses the characters' chaotic thinking and life with nowhere to stop in a graceful and beautiful manner. In addition, the film is shot with a large number of wide shots, which makes the characters in the play show the relationship that is close and far away.
