Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild is a cinema masterpiece, there is no question regarding that. This film works so well in so many levels and it amazes me so much that Wong Ka-Wai, the director, was able to bring out such raw and uncontrollable emotions from all his star actors and actresses. The movie stars the late Leslie Chueng as, York, a selfish womanizer who plays psychological games with his adopted mother to force her to tell him the whereabouts of his real mother. Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau were both drawn to York's charms but were ultimately betrayed by York. Jacky Cheung plays a friend of York who is in love with Carina, as do Andy Lau, who plays a very calm cop walking through the streets of Hong Kong 1960 and falls for Maggie's Cheung's character.

The film's art direction is just beautiful. I cannot recall many films with such beautiful cinematography. The portrait of the characters are eerily real and pack a deep emotion force to the audience. The paths of all the characters intervene between each other in one big melodrama. Tony Leung also makes a very brief but very impressive cameo at the end of the film. This is a purpose of his cameo at the end of the movie, but to figure that out, you need to go out and watch this film.

Year: 1990
Director: Wong Kar-Wai

10/10