2046: Night Train to Future Noir

2046 (Hong Kong 2004)
Entrapment of a  suave gambler turned pulp-novelist by his muses – femmes fatales all…

Director & Writer   Kar Wai Wong
DPs  Christopher Doyle & Pung-Leung Kwan
Original Music  Shigeru Umebayashi

Cross-posted at filmsnoir.net.

2046

2046 A hotel room I write dreams A train to nowhere The rambling commuter tracks An empty highway of voluptuous dreams Exotic visions An elusive stringed symphonia of a future present already gone Four women, three sirens The hotel neon illumines our sordid fantasies We embrace then kiss Sweet poison Red lampshade, red lips Red rooms, red curtains Red shadows Unfaithful erotic pose Defiant gaze The aching solitude of knowing In your arms I am no longer there A chimera of future timelessness Platform shoes Heels that glow Strut and trample the hallowed tar from my shattered soul Wanton abandon a mirror for Innocence lost My words shattered Shards of fallen glass In pools of liquid gaze Your naked thighs thrust in ecstasy A trap of lost hope and stolen bliss

Musings on In The Mood for Love

Memories night rain on cobble stones

we sheltered under eaves of lost time and aching solitude

slowed motion our paths crossed

we dare not touch rehearsing heartbreak and leave-taking

stairs a hallway with no turning condemned to relive a love ever unconsumated

always alone a red billowing curtain belies our passion

an empty hotel room 2046

there is no future no past

only an aching emptiness slippers forgotten kept as relics and stolen back by a visage not a visitor

red lipstick on a cigarette left in suspense on the edge of a lost horizon

I go back

all is gone

the story has moved on

new players in the same rooms

I don't knock on the closed door

tears and whispered secrets among ancient stones lost forever