Fallen Angles (Duo luo tian shi), was released in the year of 1995 this is one of the various films or Wong Kar-wai “a Hong Kong film director; born in Shanghai, China. He moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. After graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic College in graphic design in 1980, he enrolled in the Production Training Course organized by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited and became a full-time television scriptwriter. He subsequently graduated to feature film work. He is credited with about ten scripts between 1982 and 1987, covering an array of genres from romantic comedy to action drama, but claims to have worked to some extent or another on about fifty more without official credit (Hoover and Stokes, 1999). He considers Final Victory (1986), a dark comedy/crime story for director Patrick Tam, his best script. Despite his background as a scriptwriter, one of Wong's trademarks as a director is that he works largely through improvisation and experimentation involving the actors and crew rather than adhering to a fixed screenplay. This has been a frequent source of trouble for his actors, his financial backers and many other people connected with his films, including sometimes him.” (www.absoluteastronomy.com).
The film’s screenplay was all written by him and it takes place “in the Wamchai area of Hong Kong, since Wong felt that he had already “used up” the Tshimshatsui area that had featured so prominently his previous film. The city is even more intensively present than it was in Chunking Express, especially in the form of zippy montages, exhilarating motorcycle rides, and high-speed time-lapse shots of streaming traffic. It’s all superficially exiting but, along with the shabby interiors where hoodlums congregate, ultimately, perhaps, more than a little depressing.” (Contemporary Film Directors: Wong Kar-wai, 2005, 58). Socially China is a really interesting country since it is the most populous country in the world people have really short space to live in, also it is a country that is in constant movement, always fast, always awake. And the fact that Hong Kong is “formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guandong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world’s leading commercial centers” (www.absoluteastronomy.com), increases the interaction and progress of life. And in consideration to politics is well known that China is a communist nation probably predominated by censorship.The title of the movie is a figure of speech to name the roles of the hit man and his female dispatcher as part of the dark side of society and love. As for the main idea and purpose on the film; “Fallen Angels was like a comic book, with four completely one-dimensional principal characters; […] the characters are by turns cool, vicious, funny, wistful, paranoid, childlike, and lonely. […] “Loneliness is ultimately the film’s centrifugal force”, […] all the optimism this brilliant downbeat, thoroughly depressed movie can muster. In this light, Wong’s comment to Tony Rayns that Fallen Angels “is all about ways to keep yourself happy” can be seen as bitterly ironic. […] Wong seems to be purposely working a tonal ambiguity here, as a part of a largely covert but nonetheless effective critique of contemporary urban life.” (Contemporary Film Directors: Wong Kar-wai, 2005, 64-70).
The film’s screenplay was all written by him and it takes place “in the Wamchai area of Hong Kong, since Wong felt that he had already “used up” the Tshimshatsui area that had featured so prominently his previous film. The city is even more intensively present than it was in Chunking Express, especially in the form of zippy montages, exhilarating motorcycle rides, and high-speed time-lapse shots of streaming traffic. It’s all superficially exiting but, along with the shabby interiors where hoodlums congregate, ultimately, perhaps, more than a little depressing.” (Contemporary Film Directors: Wong Kar-wai, 2005, 58). Socially China is a really interesting country since it is the most populous country in the world people have really short space to live in, also it is a country that is in constant movement, always fast, always awake. And the fact that Hong Kong is “formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guandong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world’s leading commercial centers” (www.absoluteastronomy.com), increases the interaction and progress of life. And in consideration to politics is well known that China is a communist nation probably predominated by censorship.The title of the movie is a figure of speech to name the roles of the hit man and his female dispatcher as part of the dark side of society and love. As for the main idea and purpose on the film; “Fallen Angels was like a comic book, with four completely one-dimensional principal characters; […] the characters are by turns cool, vicious, funny, wistful, paranoid, childlike, and lonely. […] “Loneliness is ultimately the film’s centrifugal force”, […] all the optimism this brilliant downbeat, thoroughly depressed movie can muster. In this light, Wong’s comment to Tony Rayns that Fallen Angels “is all about ways to keep yourself happy” can be seen as bitterly ironic. […] Wong seems to be purposely working a tonal ambiguity here, as a part of a largely covert but nonetheless effective critique of contemporary urban life.” (Contemporary Film Directors: Wong Kar-wai, 2005, 64-70).
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