Sex… longing… rejection… and pain.
Inspired by the themes explored in the films of Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-Wai, this is a checklist of what to expect from modern love.
THINGS WONG KAR-WAI TAUGHT ME ABOUT LOVE
- You will fall in love only once. Obstacles will prevail. The rest of your life is spent recovering.
- Anything that distracts you from the pain of your loss is good. Some people are more successful in this regard than others.
- Eroticising their objects will be the pinnacle of your sexual fulfillment.
- Desire is kept eternally alive by the impossibility of contact.
- The most potent way to exist is to occupy someone else’s imagination.
- Hook up with someone. Live with them. Sleep with them. Tag along. Don’t be fooled. You are only a transitory distraction. Ask for commitment. Declare your love. Watch the set up evaporate.
- Technology will only heighten your sense of desolation making you more keenly aware that no one is trying to call.
- Some coincidences are deliberate. Others just… happen.
Directed by Alice Dallow
11min, Australia, 2004
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