Chunking Express is unlike any other conventional film, a drama based movie. The storyline is set up in Hong Kong and represents the Hong Kong citizen and says the usual story of a city life in an unusual manner. The life includes crowds, cops, drugs, smuggling, love, passion, frustration, money, sex where every character as we see has a common phenomenon of loneliness and isolation in their life. The film starts with a voice over talks about the relations we build up every day with different new people, it might stay for long or it just can fade away, as it says, “Everyday we brush past so many other people. People we never meet or people who may become close friends”. The film is based on two different stories includes almost same emotions of being with
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He meets Faye, a waitress who works in Midnight express, a canteen that he frequently visits. Cop 633 remains struggling with his feelings on the other hand the girl he was dating leaves a letter to Faye knowing that she can hand it to him. Contained in the letter is a spare key to Cop 633’s apartment which Faye keeps to herself. Till this point of the story everything seems very clear and relative but the jumping point comes when Faye secretly starts visiting the Cop’s apartment and sets up her own world there, improves his living conditions which have degraded after his breakup. Faye’s going to the apartment and clean up things gives a motivation for Cop 663 to make his life better, generating a positive feeling towards life. On the other hand Faye falls for the Cop but rather expressing her feelings to him she was enjoying the secret visits to his apartment. In one of her trips there, he catches her in his apartment and eventually at the end the guy falls in love with her as well. Here also we can see how city life has us so many options that people often tend to confuse what they want and remain isolated in
He meets Faye, a waitress who works in Midnight express, a canteen that he frequently visits. Cop 633 remains struggling with his feelings on the other hand the girl he was dating leaves a letter to Faye knowing that she can hand it to him. Contained in the letter is a spare key to Cop 633’s apartment which Faye keeps to herself. Till this point of the story everything seems very clear and relative but the jumping point comes when Faye secretly starts visiting the Cop’s apartment and sets up her own world there, improves his living conditions which have degraded after his breakup. Faye’s going to the apartment and clean up things gives a motivation for Cop 663 to make his life better, generating a positive feeling towards life. On the other hand Faye falls for the Cop but rather expressing her feelings to him she was enjoying the secret visits to his apartment. In one of her trips there, he catches her in his apartment and eventually at the end the guy falls in love with her as well. Here also we can see how city life has us so many options that people often tend to confuse what they want and remain isolated in