‘Chungking Express’ or Other Ways of Seeing Dreams

If Wong Kar-wai’s films collectively share a grammar then ‘Chungking Express’ may be where that language speaks most freely. Like most of his titles, its logic is not governed by realism but by emotional proximity: pillow cases get renewed without explanation, strangers enter private spaces, and affection is expressed through invisible, almost imperceptible acts. In WKW's universe, longing rearranges reality just enough to make narrow spaces for connection.