Fallen Angels
★★★★★ Liked

Rewatched 19 Apr 2020

Wong Kar-wai's John Woo movie; a dreamy, romantic portrait of the oddballs and outcasts who populate the Hong Kong underworld and their longing for intimacy in professions and a general, palpable hostile city nightlife that necessitates distance. The extreme wide-angle lens, handheld close-ups of neon-lit motorcycle riding and bloody gunfights is the sorta shit movies were invented for.

Full discussion on episode 135 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.

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