In the Mood for Love ( a film by Wong Kar Wai)

Chow Mo-wan: In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share... you know what they did?
Ah Ping: Have no idea.
Chow Mo-wan: They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever.
Ah Ping: What a pain! I'd just go to get laid.
Chow Mo-wan: Not everyone's like you.

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I rented Wong Kar Wai's 'In the mood for love" last night and am impressed by the cinematography of the movie.

The film may most aptly be described as an Art-house romance film set in the 60s in Hong Kong and revolves around the characters of Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Chan Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung). The two who are neighbours found themselves thrown together when they discovered their spouses were having an affair with each other. Brought together by mutual sympathy and loneliness, they soon fell in love but the audience is led to imagine that the affair was never consummated because of the moral restraints of the tragic lovers who wanted to refrain from becoming like their spouses.
Towards the end, the viewer is left with a sense of regret and lost opportunities but yet a bittersweet moral triumph that the lovers were able to set themselves apart from others with the nobler aspect of their love.

Perhaps the most heart-wrenching scene was a few years later into the story, when Chan's character visited the apartment in which she had met Chow. When the landlady told her that she intended to sell the apartment, Chan readily offered to buy it from her. Then the next scene showed Chow returning back to the apartment next door to Chan, where he had stayed previously, and discovered that his old landlady had moved. He enquired who is staying in the apartment that Chan had previously stayed in, and was told that it was a lady had just moved in with her young son. The scene ended with Chow lingering outside of her door and finally walking slowly away.