Luke here, back with a new limited series where I talk about like 60 movies over the next 60 days. Click here for an explanation. Read on for the quick and dirty review!
2046, the third of Wong Kar-wai's informal trilogy, brings back the main male lead from In the Mood for Love, now exploring the life after the end of his relationship with his wife and wife of the man whom his own wife ran off with. It can stand alone as it's own movie, but the references to the previous movies that persist throughout 2046 are many, and I could see the movie being fairly confusing without the foundation of at least InMfL. 2046 has several non-chronologically occurring story arcs, the movie switching between them at what would at first appear to be random intervals. But as the movie progresses, it becomes evident that the emotional tone of the segments mirror each other, each scene, regardless of specific arc, giving off a specific emotion, or relating a specific feeling. It is without a doubt a puzzling movie, however if one allows it to wash over them, they'll find themselves floating in a sea of blurred, but overall rewarding, emotions, as it would seem was Wong Kar-wai's true motive with making each of these movies.