Reviews of 2046

Twenty forty what?

Posted : 1 year ago on 31 October 2008 07:47 (A review of 2046)

I saw this in the movie house with my boyfriend and I am quite sure that I slept more than half of its running time. The whole futuristic thing was really boring. Hahaha. But I do know that the director of 2046 is fucking A. That's why I really want to see this film again. So that I can make a better review. Pardon me. :)

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2046 review

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 31 August 2008 08:32 (A review of 2046)

"2046" is awash in such wrenching and charming tears. If everyone in this film weeps, including Chow's counterpart - a character in his hallucinatory science-fiction story that works as a parallel to his own story - it's because everyone is also captive to memory. In "2046," memory isn't just a favorite snapshot, a blast from the past. It is where everyone lives, whether they want to or not, whether giggling in a tawdry Hong Kong hotel in 1967, hurtling through the atmosphere on a train in the future or sitting in a darkened movie theater. Like film itself, memory freezes time. Memory turns finite moments into spaces - a hotel room, say - that we return to again and again. It gives us a glimpse of the eternal and, like art at its most sublime, like this film, a means for transcendence.

By MANOHLA DARGIS
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

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2046 review

Posted : 2 years, 3 months ago on 9 August 2007 11:53 (A review of 2046)

I want the last two hours of my life back. Boring, pointless and slow. Oh so slow. Although a 2 hour length film, to me this felt like it went for 4 hours. 4 painfully drawn out hours. Every time I thought it was about to end (which happened a lot) it would unfortunately continue. I'm still trying to figure out not only the point to this film but if there was any lesson to be taken away from it. I believe there is a lesson to be learnt in every story but I fail to see it in this one.
A movie I'm going to, hopefully, forget soon and be all the happier for it.

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