Essays on Chungking

Thesis reading 1: the characters depict the loneliness they feel after they have lost love and all meaning of love, each action they do in their daily life tries to fill that hole which only leads to more misery. Thesis reading 2: the use of two different setting in the film is a depiction that emotion is the same to all people even those of different status, the outcomes of the feelings are the same.

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Reading 1: what is the director of the film trying to depict and what is the purpose of each character when it comes to ...

In modern globalized world, an intertwining of numerous cultures takes place. Western values and lifestyle are known to be specifically actively spreading all over the world. Urbanization is one of the trends brought in Asia from the West. For instance, according to the research of the World Bank, from 2000 to 2010 around 200 million people from East Asia moved to urban area; it can be assumed that this tendency is to a great extent associated with the imitation a Western urban lifestyle by Asian people (“East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape”). It is in particular captivating to observe ...

The film Chungking Express has two story lines that use reoccurring events such as the use of expiry date and the name May to represent the date of birth of the Cop 223. The dialog being used in the film is a mixture of Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, and Indian This paper reflects on the film Chungking Express and what the numbers, dates, and measurement represent and its purpose. The film uses many numbers, dates, and measurements to be distinctly unique. For instance, the names cop 223 and cop 663 are used to represent the two police officers to avoid ...