Quartile rating: 8/10 · 1 rating
Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild is a landmark of Hong Kong cinema, distinguished by Christopher Doyle's languorous, lyrical cinematography and a uniformly superb ensemble cast including Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, and Tony Leung. The film's conception of time, longing, and emotional disconnection is distinctively WKW — moody, elliptical, and deeply felt. The plot, however, is deliberately thin and meandering, functioning more as a mood piece than a story, which some find frustrating. The ending is famously abrupt and unresolved, introducing Tony Leung in a final scene that feels like a detached coda to a sequel that never came, leaving the narrative genuinely incomplete rather than artfully open.