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- Title
Queer Love in Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together (1997).
- Authors
Chin-Yi Chung
- Abstract
Wong Kar Wai often treats love in his films as an ephemeral vapour, a missed opportunity, a fleeting emotion that never acted upon becomes an ephemeral memory buried by time. In Happy Together (1997), however, he takes a different approach. Here, queer love represents not a form of fulfilment but a means to misery, as pathological and indeed dysfunctional. Wong's explorations of queer love are discussed at length in this essay.
- Subjects
WONG Kar Wai; LOVE in motion pictures; HAPPY Together (Film); QUEER theory; HOMOSEXUALITY in motion pictures
- Publication
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 2, p14
- ISSN
1547-4348
- Publication type
Article