By the time the title card arrives a few seconds later in a hail of bullets, it’s clear you’re watching sui generis cinema that can only be made in a melting pot as it threatens to bubble over. A blonde-wigged Brigitte Lin speeds through the bowels of Kowloon’s Chungking Mansions, the world streaking around her, life always in media res. Lightning in a bottle, “Chungking Express” bolts out of the darkness to the queasy sounds of Michael Galasso’s organ-grinder soundtrack. Is any other film so captivating so fast? Frustrated by the interminable post-production of “Ashes of Time” and itching to get out of the editing room, Wong Kar Wai hit the streets of Hong Kong and - in a blitz of pent-up creativity - slapped together one of the most earthshaking movies of its decade in less than two months.
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