Comments on: Enigmatic Review of "2046"

By: tdaxp » Blog Archive » The Greencine Five, Part XII: Purple Butterfly, Happy Together, The Road Home, In the Year of the Pig, King of Chess

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:57:21 +0000

[...] for his atmospheric “Hong Kong” trilogy (Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046), as well as Chungking Express. Happy Together was released to controversy, as it his first [...]

By: geri

geri — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

your blog sucks! u lousy dumb!

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

lol -- is that you, lounsbury? [1] ;-o

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/07/23/afroislamic-gap-v-new-core-reloaded.html

By: purpleslog

purpleslog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Do you need to have seen “In the Mood” first? I have both down aways in my netflix queue.

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Purpleslog,

I haven't seen "In the Mood" yet (it is in my greencine queue), but I think Amazon's description of "2046" as a quasi-sequel is correct. The male protagonist is the same, and I read that the "future" storyline strongly reflects "In the Mood," but I do not think I missed anything.

Perhaps one might be able to put some action in context quicker if one had seen "In the Mood," but I enjoyed knowing nothing going into the movie. The author uses pacing to reveal certain motives and relationships, and I do not know if the experience would have been less if I was able to figure things out more quickly.