IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

  In The Mood for Love is the Hong Kong film at 2000 directed by Wong Kar Wei. According to this film, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow are the main actor and the shots at year 1962 in Hong Kong, 1963 in Singapore, and 1966 in Cambodia. The first view that shown Mrs. Chan needs to rent a place to live on the same day as Mr. Chow. Mrs. Chan was talking to her landlady at a shanghai lady Mrs. Suen’s house, then Mr. Chow came as well to this house. This is because it was the first shot about this house, the next of this entire film was all about in this house. So Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow are form this house of the start of the little things. First, Mr. Chow took the wrong magazines give back to Mrs. Chan and then Mrs. Chan let her husband to help Mr. Chow to brought a rice cooker from Japan. Later, they always saw and getting closer to know each other.

“In The Mood for Love” used montage techniques to repeat the theme on the film mutual, emotional changes in the performance of the suggesting the real situation of society 60s era colors in Hong Kong. For example, in the film the phone call between Mr. He (Chan’s boss), Mr. He’s lover, and Mr. He’s wife of buying gifts plots illustrates, the boss is back and forth between the lover and his wife. So Combine this whole story, people felt the 60s film in Hong Kong society is pretty real life and emotional change. Not only extramarital love for Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow’s partners, a lot of people like them are having outside lovers and sneaky to do that.

Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) and Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) are next door neighbors in 1962 Hong Kong who discover that their spouses are cheating on them with each other. While Mr. Chan and Mrs. Chow are absent for most of the film and when they are present, they are either shot from behind or totally off camera with only their voices heard, their mutual betrayal of our main characters is felt by the loneliness and isolation they find themselves in. Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow grow closer puzzling over their spouses’ affair, even acting out hypothetical confrontations with them or scenes between the two adulterers. It appears that even after their spouses’ affair has ended, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow are forever destined to remain apart, as they do not seen to be quite able to give in to the adulterous impulses that their spouses apparently did.

According to this film, there are a special move to the camera which is the body of Mrs. Chan, soundtrack is the 3 over 8 of violin solo, slow shots that when the music emerge, montage is the deal with the details on the film which greatly enhances the film’s artistic appeal and increasing the film’s subtle beauty, the voice over that when Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan had a dialogue to their spouses but other half of the picture does not appear and in this way voice over said “Presence” for their spouses. For example, the light in dark load. The dim light on the dark road represent Mrs. Chan was so lonely that her husband always not at home, she needs to go to that noodle shop to buy noodle. The clock on the wall, it is easy to make the audience feel the passage of times, years of relentless.

In addition, a tree appeared in the film when Mr. Chow to leave to Singapore from Hong Kong. This motif shows the time is converted in 1962 to 1963’s but more importantly means that Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan has become increasingly distant and the love between them has always impossible. In the end of this film, this tree appeared again. The recurring themes that show Mrs. Chan wears colorful of the high neck elegant Cheong-sam in each scene but different print. The Cheong-sam play an important role in the film as they present the passage of time. Her dresses indirect mapping the development of the story, and the characters change mood. Besides, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow always passing each other on a dark stairwell. They were pretending to ignore each other, more means they were very lonely inside, and indifferent of their living conditions. There is the lens cut show in this film. Multiple-angle reflect event, increasing the scene of art. First when Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan are command move things of using a telephone lens, the focus point falls on each screen protagonist. In addition, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan are perfectly at the same time to moving things where the director has adopted a parallel montage way to interspersed with cut scenes to move two of them.

Furthermore, the music that use I this film is that episode phased development proved and an excellent tool to render the atmosphere. The music of 6/8 compound miter in three beats appeared 9 times at the theme in the film, each of episode is a development stage sound a sign. The first time, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan met on the mahjong table at their landlord’s apartment. Secong time, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan have been more familiar with each other and their spouses were always not at home, so the two of them were on the stairs and noodle shop with appear parallel montage cut.

In conclusion, 1960s in Hong Kong, the newspaper editor Mr. Chow and his wife moved to one of Shanghai residents apartment, and representative of Japanese-owned company’s trade Mr. Chan and his wife Mrs. Chan became neighbors. Because of Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow’s spouses both work outside and discovered had an affair, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow began to meet to discuss the possible future event and countermeasures. At the first they were just talk like normal, then gradually around bunch of Shanghai neighborhood gossip, they found that spouses were having affair thing was not important for them anymore, they really like each other. But they always deliberately avoided something, the result are more deep miss each other. The ending was regretful that Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan finally stopped their relationship.