Two women, a return to a young one old, independently of one another from San Francisco back to her hometown of Hong Kong. Once there, cross over by threads of fate, the boy - perhaps - a new, the old woman - perhaps - a lost love. In Merry-Go-Round , an independent, but why not cheaply produced melodrama from Hong Kong, whose emotional images have me besieged until I was at the end so far, even still love to her at first sight, essentially false glitter, are all all the figures on the body and / or soul sick, broken, ill. Behind each set (oddly enough in English) Indie-pop ballads, behind images that flicker and vibrate for sheer polish, love the lens flare, which are pastel colors if you want to say past behind before gently moving camera draped tulle appear when you leave the film only time, real feelings. Merry-Go-Round returns do not always stylish lined diverted to the bittersweet Hong Kong romances of the nineties, some of which fell with some very good (not only In the Mood for Love but Hong Kong Love Affair , Kitchen and so on). Of course there is always a very direct, and perhaps clumsy way to "cinematic" correlates searched for feelings, but that has never bothered me. The smart cynicism in many American and European films, love is much worse. What the Hong Kong film-making really is that they zerdehnen the retained desire and the compensating pain, over the span of a film, each scene, innerdiegetisch for decades, all biographies, or, as in the case of Merry-Go-Round , even of all generations. Inevitably, the films have problems if close to the time of scissors and one of the two partners do not be late in the wrong place. In the American Romance (as there is of course a great tradition, today it has probably on television shifted in the sitcoms and teen soaps) the re-updating of love is inevitably the vanishing point, the happy ending may be a cliché to be, outwardly, it is the movies never in Asian cinema, there is, I believe, a different structure, one in which the worlds of the two lovers fall into each other just never quite allowed, because otherwise the film is not only simply, but would be broken.
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