i love all of wong kar wai's works but among in the mood for love, the chungking express, and this, i liked fallen angels the most. something about each character's deep longing for connection and the somewhat nice, but bittersweet ending got me.
i first watched this when i was 18 and thought it was too slow and boring. i watched it again 5 years later at 23, and i bawled my eyes out. like his father said, some things are better understood and appreciated when we're older. this story was one of them.
it was a good movie. i have a different take that the second half of the movie was actually a lot more exciting…
it's like a game, testing whether you have what it takes to be human. so basically humanity was doomed the moment the asteroid hit the earth (and the 15 more that followed after). the first half of the movie was the real event that happened---she abandoned her kid to die and went to space to fulfill her task. unfortunately, she gets hit with the shrapnel and is bleeding out. before she dies, the other scientists help insert her memories as a subject into the emotion engine machine, programming the flood that had just occurred. it was done in a way so that her "simulation self" needed to choose the empathetic option each time (1. save the kid in the elevator, 2. help the pregnant woman 3. find her child NO MATTER what any person told her). these were all requirements to complete the launch of the emotion engine. there were also many obstacles to deter her from making the correct decision, like the agents. if she didn't make the right decision, the rest would fail to follow, and she would restart. the number on her shirt is the amount of times she already restarted the simulations. it took her over 20,000 times to nail every decision correctly and find her son, finally fulfilling her original promise from the real timeline to find him in the closet on the roof (what she whispered in her son's ear). she also fulfilled her promise in the beginning to go diving with him. her simulation self succeeded what the real anna couldn't. the engine detected that subject anna met these qualifications, so their "new" bodies were completed and sent back to earth. no one knows how many years after since the great flood, it could have been thousands of years for all we know. but at the ending credits we see land, and earth is habitable again. other pods are landing with her, and maybe at least 10 of them will restart humanity again, complete with the emotions that make us humans----human. wonderful movie. when you take the time to understand it, it hits. and it hits hard.
it was a good movie. i have a different take that the second half of the movie was actually a lot more exciting once you realized the plot twist. it also made me cry at the end when it all came back full circle (explanation in spoiler).
it had a REALLY strong start, and the acting is amazing (i expect nothing less of JCW), but the second act had a questionable direction and the way they wrote the villains is honestly cartoonish. a lot of characters are just glanced over (e.g. his friends had a way bigger role in the movie version...). i started to get pissed off at the writing. it lost its thriller halfway.
omg thank you for the validation ;-; everything just felt so unnecessary... like, you would've thought that usagi…
girl exactly. I thought i was going crazy. i also disliked the fact that she couldn't be transparent to arisu, like they're married and i get that they're both recovering from a traumatic event with no previous memories but....even in the borderlands, their relationship fell kinda flat because of the focus on ryuji's obsession. idk, i'm just disappointed cause i love this couple so much but i felt like their passion for each other was lacking :(
two things can be true at once. the games were still great, but people are allowed to say that the way they wrote…
usagi going back to the borderlands was not questionable to me, that's the whole point of this season. season 2 usagi was peak writing. but here, i criticize how the writers made her so empathetic to the guy who forced her back into the borderlands (ryuji). why did they write her to be so protective for a man she just met. how is she more transparent to him than arisu? i do not care that he saved her life, he still forced her back against her will. yeah she's always been kind, but she's strong and can fend for herself, she did not need to be defending him right in front of arisu. anyways ryuji was a major character in this season so naturally this interaction ruined a lot of the original spark of S1-S2 for me
Honestly, criticise it all u want but the games were still as epic as ever.Hating this season just because of…
two things can be true at once. the games were still great, but people are allowed to say that the way they wrote usagi this season was dogshit. characters doing questionable things, especially for a major character like usagi, does ruin the story for some of us
omg same thoughts about usagi. like i’m so happy she got more focused screentime here but why did they write her to be so secretive towards arisu and suddenly very mentally unstable? i did NAWT like what they tried to do between her and ryuji. like ryuji is an interesting character but why did they make it seem like usagi got attached to him, why was she so protective of him when her mans arisu was right there 😭 good review overall i agree!!
S2 is still the best season, but i've come to appreciate the new cast of S3 too. this season was way more psychological than anything which is exactly what made me love S2. but i felt it was needlessly dragged and the ending was a major "wtf is even going on anymore" moment, were the writers high? rei was the most intriguing new character for me, and i actually thought ryuji's character could be interesting, but also confused as hell with this random one-sided love triangle. not digging it. tl;dr good cast, good buildup, crappy ending, weird character dynamics. idk, i need to write a proper review.
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so basically humanity was doomed the moment the asteroid hit the earth (and the 15 more that followed after). the first half of the movie was the real event that happened---she abandoned her kid to die and went to space to fulfill her task. unfortunately, she gets hit with the shrapnel and is bleeding out. before she dies, the other scientists help insert her memories as a subject into the emotion engine machine, programming the flood that had just occurred. it was done in a way so that her "simulation self" needed to choose the empathetic option each time (1. save the kid in the elevator, 2. help the pregnant woman 3. find her child NO MATTER what any person told her). these were all requirements to complete the launch of the emotion engine. there were also many obstacles to deter her from making the correct decision, like the agents. if she didn't make the right decision, the rest would fail to follow, and she would restart. the number on her shirt is the amount of times she already restarted the simulations. it took her over 20,000 times to nail every decision correctly and find her son, finally fulfilling her original promise from the real timeline to find him in the closet on the roof (what she whispered in her son's ear). she also fulfilled her promise in the beginning to go diving with him. her simulation self succeeded what the real anna couldn't. the engine detected that subject anna met these qualifications, so their "new" bodies were completed and sent back to earth. no one knows how many years after since the great flood, it could have been thousands of years for all we know. but at the ending credits we see land, and earth is habitable again. other pods are landing with her, and maybe at least 10 of them will restart humanity again, complete with the emotions that make us humans----human.
wonderful movie. when you take the time to understand it, it hits. and it hits hard.
tl;dr good cast, good buildup, crappy ending, weird character dynamics. idk, i need to write a proper review.