![]() The domination of the grey hue infrastructure of Berlin creates a sharp contrast with the yellow, blue, and red interiors, vehicles, and vintage classics of East Germany nostalgia. It celebrates celebrity culture, cinema, and theater. Poverty begets evil in the form of gangsters, rookies, smugglers, thieves, criminals, and illegitimate drug dealers. ![]() The underprivileged co-exist in one of the biggest economic capitals of the world. The rich don’t shy away from enjoying a lavish lifestyle on the Hollywood hills. A city of dreams where only a few of them come true out of the millions. The accentuating hallucinatory illusion of a luxurious life hides the dark mysteries of the famous, rich, and powerful. Los Angeles is an ideal location for filmmakers to direct Neo-Noirs. Amidst the beautification of an American dream-chasing lifestyle, there is a need for companionship, meaningfulness, and tranquility. The city depicts professionals hustling around with a flashy lifestyle, corporate vultures, corruptible powerful autocrats, assassins, and smugglers who all put on a mask of contentment. At the same time, a deep void of emptiness surrounds the highly ambitious protagonists in movies. Films like Drive, Collateral, and Nightcrawler portray the nightlife with neon lights, the lovely lanes of coconut trees, and a glamorous vibe that even a desolate individual enjoys. Millions of people come every year to hustle in the epicenter of Hollywood. Los Angeles is often synonymous with glitz and glamour. Films like Cageman (1992) and Coffin Homes (2021) have a satirical take on Hong Kong’s coffin home system (which is a result of the city’s high cost of living, population, and unemployment). Hong Kong eventually becomes the main protagonist with a personality of its own. The loneliness and ambiguity of his characters residing in Hong Kong remain constant throughout all his films. The political commentary of ‘Happy Together’ focused on LGBTQ rights in communist China. An anxious-inflicting, modern, capitalist factory where rebels, loners, delinquents, gangsters, hustlers, and hoarders live with an anonymous identity.įrom the narrow streets of a 60s Hong Kong ‘In the Mood for Love” to the futuristic ‘2046’, Wong Kar Wai showcased a flourishing Hong Kong struggling amidst its transition. Hong Kong seems like a confusing maze to nowhere. The Dutch tilts, neon lights, handheld sequences, and perspective shots are enough to generate a sense of intimacy with the lonely characters. Hong Kong Cinema has made the Claustrophobic lanes of high-rise buildings synonymous with the city. Wong Kar Wai and cinematographer Christopher Doyle have mastered the art of capturing urban isolation amidst the mayhem of a city with a huge working population. Hong Kong Cinema is synonymous with filmmakers like Wong Kar Wai and Fruit Chan.
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