Even though this was a rewatch, and I went in knowing that the lens was absurdly wide, I still was not prepared for how wide the lens is.
I mean its just great, man. People coping with loneliness makes for some great stories.
I remember reading this one street photography book and the artist talked about how he rotates his camera in order to keep composition, which is abnormal, which this movie does frequently. You’d think that with such a wide lens, there wouldn’t be much problem to get interesting compositions. But I think because they wanted to keep the camera close to the characters, they ended up having to rotate the camera anyway.
This was the first Wong Kar-wai movie I watched so I didn’t know that the movie was referencing Chungking Express, which it does pretty often. Makes me wonder if Kar-wai’s other movies reference each other and I just haven’t been noticing it.
A Spring Fling https://tilde.town/~lateen/spring-fling.html