You know i feel like the first cop was Wang Kai won (however u spell that) he kept saying again n again 'love you for 10,000 years " but the irony was his love of life just broke up with him and the second drug dealer person only wished him happy birthday. Like there was love there but it was incomplete.
You know that's what I love about his movies, even while presenting love he never lets his audience feel complete. That's what is different in his films than the main stream cinema. if we see fallen angels and chungking express one after the other (the way he meant to produce it, but the screen time came up to be very long)....even fallen angel would feel incomplete.
And the cinematography man. It's the major reason I watch his films, the weird camera stills that no one in mainstream would dare to use. And the hopelessness of the romance is just brilliant everywhere.