WKW themes

• Lonliness and Solitude 


  Michelle is a prime example of this theme: even when surrounded by people she is living in a state of dreaminess and is trapped in her solitude.

  Blondie has an exaggerated thirst for intimacy and belonging
• Lonliness and Solitude

  The desperation and struggle to form connections are represented through the Killer leaving clues in his trash to help his agent (Michelle) to understand him better.
• Lonliness and Solitude

  Wong makes his characters physically and emotionally adrift, conveying a sense of longing and meloncholy without exchanging much dialogue.

  It is from their actions that the audience feels how distant and self-contained their lives are.
• Lonliness and Solitude

  Wong focuses on deeply personal relationshios while maintaining a balance between beauty and chaos.

  Lonely souls moving in a crowded world trying to make meaningful connections.
• Unrequited Love

  Wong mourns unattained love by romanticizing it - Michelle.

  Repressed desire of lost love and an inability to leave their past - Blondie and Charlie(?)
• Escapism 


  Delusion characters thinking they can escape from their realities - Killer dies on his final mission

  He convinces himself that he is just a lazy messenger and that the time and place of death are decided by someone else.
• Uncertainty and conflict


  The hunger of wanting what they can't attain - Michelle + Blondie

  Wong teases his characer by tempting them to be together but not without presenting a layer of uncertainty and ambiguity. - blondie + killer
• Uncertainty and conflict

  Conflict with oneself - Wong constructs an enviroment where his leads are tempted and given opportunities to confess and be true, but their lack of courage holds them back.
• Invasion of personal space


  Wong uses this tool outrageously, to further add to the desperation and thirst for some connection his characters face.
• Invasion of personal space - what two methods does Wong use?

  Allowing the audience to hear the characters most personal thoughts in the form of monologues

  Allowing his characters to spy on other characters lives - his characters are often lurking in the shadows and spying on each other.
• Invasion of Privacy in Fallen Angles?

  The agent (Michelle) goes through the killers trash in hopes to find more about his whereabouts and life.
• Invasion of privacy

  The violation is an act of intimation that his characters celebrate, an extension of their closeness without having any involvement of physical touch.
• Invasion of Privacy

  The free violation of privacy and perverse acts without showing remose have become a trademark in WKW filmography .
• Clocks - WKW obsession with using clocks to communicate his messages about lost time, the fragmention and unreliability of 'the clock'