Why do intellectuals love Wong so much and champion his work so much?
OK, he's a 'visionary' but so is Leigh Whannel and James Wan who made 'saw' for that matter ( a film which represented to me, the most cynical, post-modern ripoff in recent memory)...
I've seen three of his films 'Fallen angels', 'in the mood for love' and recently '2046'.
I really put alot of faith in '2046' as the one that would 'do it' for me, mainly becuase of the sci-fi/cyberpunk sub-plots, but it came off like some neo-Kubrickian meets an Impulse deodorant ad, type flick.
What's with Wong's framing?? Can he frame a shot beyond a doorway? Since when has the 'rule of thirds'in c-tography been anything more than that?
Ok, so I can understand his noir/mellodrama stylings because we all know that mellodrama is the cinematic 'raison d'etre' in today's po-mo/homo culture stagflag state. But it's tired. Dull. A formula.
So please enlighten me fine film buffs and indie-pariahs, why should I choose Wong over Robert Siodmak or Sergio Martino for that matter? what is it that I'm missing, and every trendy, well paid film crits and their devoted legions of festival-gimpies and neo-romantic simpies get?
OK, he's a 'visionary' but so is Leigh Whannel and James Wan who made 'saw' for that matter ( a film which represented to me, the most cynical, post-modern ripoff in recent memory)...
I've seen three of his films 'Fallen angels', 'in the mood for love' and recently '2046'.
I really put alot of faith in '2046' as the one that would 'do it' for me, mainly becuase of the sci-fi/cyberpunk sub-plots, but it came off like some neo-Kubrickian meets an Impulse deodorant ad, type flick.
What's with Wong's framing?? Can he frame a shot beyond a doorway? Since when has the 'rule of thirds'in c-tography been anything more than that?
Ok, so I can understand his noir/mellodrama stylings because we all know that mellodrama is the cinematic 'raison d'etre' in today's po-mo/homo culture stagflag state. But it's tired. Dull. A formula.
So please enlighten me fine film buffs and indie-pariahs, why should I choose Wong over Robert Siodmak or Sergio Martino for that matter? what is it that I'm missing, and every trendy, well paid film crits and their devoted legions of festival-gimpies and neo-romantic simpies get?