The tune is a piece of her inside being, one that ricochets The music proceeds after she's cleared out the condo-it is a musical When we hear the melody at Cop 663's flat, we perceive that Faye involved this spaceĪurally and also physically.
The song is constantly associated with Faye's nearness, whether the sound source is obvious or Urban alienation and (lack of) effective communication in a postmodern city like Hong Kong? What does that say about Faye's personalities? How does Faye's way of listening to music revealĪbout her life and her relationships? How does the usage of music help describe key questions of Stops me from thinking.Ĭop 633: You don't like to think? What do you like? In the following conversation, Faye explains to Cop 633 about why she does that: Cop 633: You Faye, like Brigitte Lin's character in the first vignette, appropriates a Inĭancing and mouthing the lyrics while performing her mundane tasks, Faye embodies It does not smooth over an abrupt edit, the way music typically does. In a jump cutįollowing the first conversation between Faye and Cop 663, the music also cuts to a different Throughout the second story, the song struggles to break away from itsĭiegetic container, the boom box behind the counter at Midnight Express.
It is noteworthy that the music has a function-Faye turns the volume up to prevent her from Please consider how is the song "California Dreamin'" used throughout the second Loves listening to loud music, particularly, "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and In Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express, the waitress, Faye at the Midnight Express, Whereas events in the political domain, such as the civil war and the Great Leap Forward movement, greatly controlled and changed people’s lives, do you think that the personal life is still ableġ. Zhang Yimou’s film, To Live, explores the intricate entanglements between the political and the personal lives in modern China. Please also find cases that argue for the opposite, which considers Chinese tradition as an adaptive and dynamic system that transforms itself to meet the modern challenges.ģ.
Please find cases in the movie that regard traditional values as oppressive forces and hindering the modernizing process. In Ang Lee’s movie, Wedding Banquet, one important issue is how to deal with Chinese traditional values in the modern times. What does that say about Faye’s personalities? How does Faye’s way of listening to music reveal about her life and her relationships? How does the usage of music help describe key questions of urban alienation and (lack of) effective communication in a postmodern city like Hong Kong?Ģ. Stops me from thinking.Ĭop 633: You don’t like to think? What do you like? In the following conversation, Faye explains to Cop 633 about why she does that: Cop 633: You like noisy music?
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