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Wong Kar Wai on In the Mood for Love at 25 – a new interview: “Can an algorithm understand the weight of a glance between two people?”

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  1. chocobean
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    I have only ever watched this film on the small, grubby screen at home with a poor sound system. I respect that film makers intend for their art pieces to be seen in a particular way, but each...

    like a letter I wrote 25 years ago – finally delivered. I’m curious how audiences today will read it. We are planning to release the extended version for the international audience. However, we wish it to be only shown in cinemas, for the audience to have a better reading on the big screen.

    I have only ever watched this film on the small, grubby screen at home with a poor sound system. I respect that film makers intend for their art pieces to be seen in a particular way, but each time they say something like this, it does make me feel cinema isn't for me. It's an art form that's only meant for people who can fly to film festivals and attend meet and greets with the creators and have access to seeing them as they're meant to be shown.

    Regardless, I was very young when I watched it last. I understood nothing of love that wasn't professed and restraint. Even on a small screen with pirated epilogue, I wonder how I will react to it now as an older woman.

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