If you're trying to follow the plot, you may feel frustrated. If you are attentive to the style, if you think about what Wong is doing, "Chungking Express” works. His visuals rhythmically switch between ordinary film, video and pixilated images, often in slow motion, as if the very lives of his characters threaten to disintegrate into the raw materials of media. He sets the stories in the Hong Kong world of fast-food restaurants, shopping malls, nightclubs, concrete plazas and pop culture (one of his heroines wears a blond wig and dark glasses, and the other seems addicted to "California Dreamin”' by the Mamas and the Papas). He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.He is concerned more with the materials of a story than with the story itself, and he demonstrates that by telling two stories, somewhat similar, that have no obvious connection. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color.
He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.
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