2046 (movie)
| Movie | |
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| German title | 2046 |
| Original title | 2046 |
| Country of production | Hong Kong , China , France , Italy , Germany |
| original language | Cantonese , Japanese , Standard Chinese |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | Cinema: 129 minutes DVD: 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wong Kar-Wai |
| script | Wong Kar-Wai |
| production | Wong Kar-Wai |
| music |
Peer Ravens Shigeru Umebayashi |
| camera |
Christopher Doyle Kwan Pun-Leung Lai Yiu-Fai |
| cut | William Chang |
| occupation | |
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| chronology | |
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2046 (alternative title: 2046 - The Ultimate Love Movie ) is a melodrama from 2004 by director Wong Kar-Wai , who also wrote the script and produced the film. The film opened in German cinemas on January 13, 2005.
action
Prologue: The earth will be spanned by an endless rail network in 2046. There is also a mysterious place called 2046 that is said to never change there. Nobody could confirm this, however, since nobody has returned from this place - with the exception of a Japanese named Tak, who is on a train to leave again in 2046. This train travels through areas "12-24" and "12-25" (synonyms for Christmas), where it gets so cold that the passengers on the train have to warm each other.
Singapore in 1966: A man named Chow asks the love of his life Su to accompany him to Hong Kong , but she rejects him. When Chow arrived in Hong Kong at the end of the year, the uprisings against the British colonial power broke out shortly afterwards. In Hong Kong, Chow lives in a hotel and writes columns for a newspaper. At Christmas 1966 he meets Lulu, whom he met as a dancer in Singapore, but she explains to him that she no longer remembers him. He brings the meanwhile drunk Lulu to her hotel room. As he leaves, he notices room number 2046. Two days later, he returns to give Lulu the room key he had put in his pocket. The landlord Wang Sum explains that there was only one Mimi and that she no longer lives here. Chow wants to rent the room, but is told that renovations still have to be done in 2046, but that he can move into the opposite room in 2047. He later learns that Lulu was stabbed to death by her jealous boyfriend the night before.
By the time room 2046 is ready, Chow has already got used to room 2047 and he's staying there. He often hears the voice of a woman in room 2046. This is Jing-Wen, the landlord's older daughter. She has a Japanese boyfriend, which her father refuses to accept. The landlord's younger daughter is precocious Jie-Wen, who imposes herself on Chow but is turned away by him.
A curfew will be imposed in Hong Kong on May 22nd. Chow begins writing a novel called 2046 , which is about love and people who risk everything to get to the place in 2046. When the riots ended in September, things seem to have returned to normal in Hong Kong.
A new occupant now lives in room 2046, the cabaret dancer Bai Ling, who Chow invites to dinner on December 24, 1967. Both start an affair; however, he gives her money after every meeting. Chow continues to meet other women, which makes Bai Ling jealous. She wants an unambiguous relationship, which he refuses, whereupon they break up.
After her Japanese friend's departure and a stay in the hospital, daughter Jing-Wen is back at the hotel. She shows Chow her self-written texts. Chow is enthusiastic about her work and makes her his assistant. Together they write kung fu stories for newspapers. Chow begins to write a novel for her in which the Japanese Tak is his alter ego. He explains that he would name the novel for her in 2047 . On December 24, 1968, he invited Jing-Wen to dinner and enabled her to call her boyfriend in Japan. Chow realizes that he and Jing-Wen are soul mates, but his longing for her remains unfulfilled because she has already lost her heart to her Japanese friend. Chow gives Jing-Wen a copy of his completed novel 2047 . He later learns that Jing-Wen is going to marry her boyfriend in Japan. He learns from her father that she liked his novel very much, but that she found the ending too sad and she asked whether he could change this. Chow says he'll try. However, he sits motionless over the novel and cannot change it.
18 months later, Bai Ling calls Chow and they meet. At Christmas 1969 he went to Singapore and looked for his love Su in the casino, who was known there as a professional player under the name "Black Spider". Since Su no longer shows up in the casino, it is believed that she has returned to her homeland, Phnom Penh . He remembers how he met the player Su Li-Zhen in Singapore, who had the same name as the woman he had left Hong Kong for before and with whom he previously met in a hotel room with the number 2046.
background
Even if it is not a direct sequel, the film ties in with Wong Kar-Wai's previous film In the Mood for Love , from which scenes in the 2046 film are also used. He also refers to motifs from his film Days of Being Wild .
Director Wong Kar-Wai worked on the project for five years. Immediately before the premiere in Cannes, he had re-edited the film so that the premiere had to be rescheduled and the film was delivered to Cannes just a few hours before. The film premiered on May 20, 2004 as part of the competition at the Cannes Film Festival . The cinema release in Hong Kong was on September 29, 2004, in Germany on January 13, 2005.
The film pays homage to actor Leslie Cheung , who died in 2003 . The latter committed suicide by jumping from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The film 2046 features a hotel with the name “Oriental Hotel”, and two off-screen sentences refer to Cheung: “She once had a Filipino lover, but he died. He was like a bird without wings. ”This refers to the film Days of Being Wild , in which the half-Filipino Cheung plays such a lover.
In the original sound, the characters speak in different languages. Chow Mo-Wan speaks Cantonese, Bai Ling Mandarin and Jing-Wen's friend and Tak speak Japanese.
The aria “Casta diva” from Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma is repeated .
The cost of production was estimated at $ 12 million. The film grossed around $ 19 million in cinemas worldwide.
Title 2046
The number "2046" has several meanings in the film, it relates to:
- the title of the science fiction novel written by Chow
- the name of the fictional place from this novel
- the number of the room in the "Oriental Hotel" in Hong Kong where Lulu and later Bai Ling live. In addition, in the previous film In the Mood for Love , Chow takes a room with Su Li-Zhen (a different one than in this film) with the same room number. Since the shooting of the two films partially overlapped, director Kar-Wai spontaneously decided to give the room from In the Mood for Love the number of the other film title. In the case of the two films originally planned as independent projects, connections finally developed, so that Kar-Wai described the two films as "two chapters of a book".
- the year in which Hong Kong loses its special status within the People's Republic of China. At the turn of the year 1996/97, the Chinese government assured that the status would not change in the next 50 years. 2046 would therefore be the last year in which this assurance is still valid.
Reviews
“Again, the director has mastered the vocabulary of the cinema, elicits a hypnotic agility from the camera and arranges the images in a gentle, dream-lost montage. Tony Leung and his companions seem to float through the film. The fact that 2046 seems almost more rigorously framed is due not least to the Cinemascope format. It intensifies the plastic effect of the fragmentation to which Wong subjects faces and bodies. This concentration and recess gives the compositions a unique melodramatic precision. "
“Wong Kar-wai's new film is without a doubt his most sentimental yet. And yet he celebrates the nostalgic look back in such an uncompromising, passionate way that long after going to the cinema you feel a certain contempt for all the silly, happily functioning loved ones of the present. "
“The individual narrative strands tear off, are mirrored and lengthened in the science fiction sequences, later they suddenly reappear. [...] This cinema doesn't care about realism and plausibility, it creates forms and images for non-identity. Here Wong achieves a virtuosity that is second to none. "
“An intoxicating eulogy for the power of longing love, which with associative cascades of images, scraps of dialogue and thoughts and melancholy music weaves a melancholy narrative carpet whose fragmentary stories revolve around loss and grief. The masterful film passage through space and time borders on the unconscious. "
Awards
2046 was named Best Non-European Film at the 2004 European Film Awards.
Web links
- 2046 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cristina Nord: In the Mood for Sex. In: The daily newspaper . January 12, 2005.
- ↑ Josef Schnelle, Rüdiger Suchsland: signs and wonders. Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar-Wai's cinema. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-438-2 .
- ↑ 2046 (2005) - Box Office Mojo. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Gerhard Midding: Memories of the future. In: Friday . January 14, 2005.
- ↑ a b Locked up in green spaces. In: the daily newspaper. January 13, 2005.
- ↑ Katja Nicodemus: When time freezes. In: The time . January 13, 2005.
- ↑ 2046. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .