In room 2046, tenants move in and out. The leading lady Lulu, always carrying her beaming smile on the stage, despite the bad endings of all her affairs, has never stopped looking for her "legless bird," but only found stabbed to death by her boyfriend, a flying bird who never lands. What eyes cast so high! But when the heart surrenders, they turn downward and watery too, and in spite of her prettiness and arrogance, the nightclub girl Bai Yun can't get away from a nightclub girl's fate - which man would take the serious love of a nightclub girl seriously? Such a lovely red dress and innocent young flesh! High heels, however, pace a wooden floor into a hollowing melancholy, and gemstone-like eyes turn ash when the man who has made a home at Miss Wang's heart is rejected by a tyrant father. In the small oriental hotel, forever stays is that gesture of longing: swinging female forms in the attic, rising smoke from cigarettes swirling into nothingness, lone fingers reaching out to an empty air, and sad eyes lost in an untouchable sky. Is there another director who understands women better than Kar Wai Wong? Grace Kelly, full of grace, and glamour, married into the Palace of Monaco on the Riviera azure with a dowry of $2,000,000, but it wasn't a happy life thereafter. And her life ended driving off a road down a mountainside. In a fairytale, Princess Diana, with all the beauty and style, was married to Prince Charles. Under what terms she was accepted into the royal family, you don't know. But everyone knows the fairytale was destroyed by brutal scandals and she too lost her life in a car crash. Princess Caroline of Monaco, the epitome of elegance, three marriages, three men, but is she happy? "More Woe for Princess Caroline" is the headline of a median article. There was this young girl in a village in a true story told by Ailing Zhang. She was very pretty. Many matchmakers came to offer marriage proposals, but she accepted none of them. Later, she was kidnapped to a remote place and then sold again and again. Even at her old age, she still remembered that spring evening, in the backyard, under a peach tree, the young man living in the next door walked to her. She had seen him before but never spoke with him. When their eyes met, he said to her softly, "You are here too?." Just that. He said nothing more. They stood there in a close distance for a while, and then walked away. She was about fifteen or sixteen then, wearing a light blue shirt. And is that Chinese girl in Rome fine? You met her in her little souvenir store near the famous Trevi fountain, and saw her again the second time you visited Rome. She was married to a man who owned a Chinese restaurant. She used to be a singer star in Beijing. She's very beautiful. It was flowering season, you remember, she was having a terrible allergy. Her husband brought her lunch to the store. He looked kind.
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An afterthought: Nature has granted living things the most mysterious mystery of sex. For humans, the dance of two sexes is not only a practical means of producing offspring, it is also a romance. Romancing is an art, and who masters it is an artist. Yet how many men know to truly appreciate the unique delicacy and beauty of his dancing partner, turn her around and dance with her into a splendor, beyond a small decoration to his ambitions? And what could be more tragic than to see romance become a two-sex arms race? Maybe every man and woman should learn Argentine Tango.