Direction & Screenplay
Wong Kar wai's 1995 Hong Kong drama film Fallen Angels stars Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung, and Karen Mok. The film is made up of two tales that have nothing in common except for a few random encounters when some of the characters happen to be in the same place at the same time. Both stories are set in Hong Kong.To distinguish it from Chungking and to try something new, Wong and cinematographer Christopher Doyle agreed to film mostly at night and with extreme wide-angle lenses, holding the camera as close to the talents as possible to offer a disconnected effect from the world around them. The film had its own raw touch to it with the camera all handheld and show in a very inhereant way what the characters are going through.
Cinematography & Editing
It's exhilarating and draining at the same time. It will cater to the types of people you see in the Japanese animation section of the video store, with their sleeves shaved to expose their tattoos. And to those that have more than three film magazines subscriptions. Even, garage band members. Even, to students of art. It's not for the regular moviegoer—unless, of course, they want to see something unusual.FAllen Angels is a tightly packed series of vignettes with the independence of pop songs or stand-up comedy riffs, all stitched together with repeated images of elevated trains, underground subway stations, and teeming neon-lit streets. While the plot takes a dramatic turn, the film feels as light as the tinny pop music that keeps the city's restless midnight ramblers darting about.
Acting
The acting is exhilarating. The contrasting characters. The complete revolution of characters with time and how the story influenced the characters action. All of them have done a responsible job in terms of pulling of very unorthodox characters. With Wong Kar kei direction has just made the characters iconie. thanks to the camera movement too.
Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, in my opinion, should be combined into a three-hour film. I've always thought that these two films should be shown as a double bill.Watch this romance and crime film now.