Hong Kong is a destination, an international city with many languages. The drug mules have vanished with her cargo at the airport. Woman in a blonde wig knows her days are numbered. In mourning, he wants to comfort someone who like him needs to be comforted. He is about to turn 25, and his girlfriend May has not returned. She smokes, shoots a pistol, pushes men around, kidnaps a child for a short while, drinks whiskey, and meets by chance Cop 223 in a late night bar. Her disguise, a belted trenchcoat and white satin heels, has become for her what is real, “If I put on a rain coat I wear sun glasses too.” Her lips are dark red. Woman in a blonde wig channels Sterling Hayden if he were to channel Marilyn Monroe. She outfits them in tailored suits, custom shoes their wives pad their stomachs to look pregnant. She has hired Indian men living in Hong Kong to act as drug mules. Woman in a blonde wig (Brigitte Lin) is a drug smuggler who loses her drugs. Their nicknames disguise them, make them anonymous.Ĭop 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) smiles easily, eats constantly, and pines for May, the woman who recently dumped him. The four main characters may as well be one, related in their fear of being lonely or left.
They say they are jogging, really they are running their hearts out in the rain. They frequent restaurants without white tablecloths, bars and clubs shrouded in curtains and lit in neon. They drink whiskey, doubles, black coffee and cola. They eat their meals on the street or don’t eat at all. They have many things to say and no time. All are in communication or trying to be. They speak to inanimate objects, write notes on paper napkins, send voice mails to an answering service, and wear pagers. Characters voice their thoughts in narration. The women in Chungking Express (1994) wear sunglasses.
Chungking Express (1994) film notes by Tova Gannana for Far Away Entertainment
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