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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Chungking Express (重慶森林) is a movie directed by Wong Kar-wai and released in 1994, with an Ensemble Cast including Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro. Quentin Tarantino loved it so much that he signed a deal with Miramax to start his own releasing company specifically to distribute the movie in the US.The movie can't be easily summarized, if only because it starts with one story, which it abandons on the way to continue with another. Essentially, each plot follows a Hong Kong cop, and his strange romance with a woman they've just met, but the two ultimately differ in tone and conclusion. Arguably, rather than trying to tell a story, it is a depiction of the cramped, hectic, neurosis inducing, but strangely exciting contemporary life in the city. | |
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Artistic License – Geography: The film's location establishes this as in Tsim Sha Tsui as evidenced by the black-and-yellow livery of the subway station that bears its name (where the Train Escape takes place). It is also the location of the Chungking Mansions, of which this movie is named after. However, there are two inaccuracies of the setting. Firstly, Cop #663's apartment is established to be in the area as it is near the Midnight Express, but the Central Mid-Levels escalator is shown as next to the apartment, which is in the Central District, across Victoria Harbour. Not to mention that we see Cop #663's girlfriend go up the escalator to go to work when she should be going down (the escalator was built to allow residents an easier way to get home from the business areas of Hong Kong). Secondly, there are planes flying overhead; Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport was open at around this time, and the flight path for any plane taking off or leaving this airport will not take it over Tsim Sha Tsui. | |
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