1. Wong Kar-wai - A Visionary Auteur
Chungking Express depicts two virtually unrelated but loosely linked stories in which the paths of its characters crosses at some point in time. ... The element of time is essential to its narrative and draws a sense of parallelism between the two stories. ... Leung Ping-kwan, a Hong Kong academic and scriptwriter, said "the opening chase scene shot with hand-held camera and shown in stop-motion effects with syncotated blurs highlights the paradox of the speedy motion captured with the still-like quality of static shots" (Fu 244). ... Freeze frames were also used to capture significant ...
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