Days of Being Wild (1990)

Days of Being Wild (1990) is a movie set in the 60s but is also very 90s.  Wong Kar-Wai is exceptional at making a small cast movie that seems very big.  Yuddy is trying to find out who his birth mother is from the woman who raised him.  This emotional mess is the nexus of the whole story.  He seduces the quiet and hard-working Su Li-zhen and then when she wants to marry him, dumps her for her polar opposite, Leung Fung-ying. She is a dancer and hostess who is just as stunted as he is.  It’s a lot of yelling and pouting and oh my lord the smoking!  This is all in an exotic Hong Kong background that seem large but intimate, because you are focused only on the characters. There are some other love interests that are thrown in and they break your heart to.  Wong Kar-Wai lives to break your heart.

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