Tuesday, October 9, 2007

So this is my tree...

In Wong Kar Wei's films "In the Mood for Love" and "2046" the theme of whispering secrets down a hole is repeated and toyed with but finds itself most eloquently with the following scene when Tony Lueng's character "Tak" explains to the beautiful Android [Faye Wong] why he wants to leave the year 2046...

“I have a secret” He says and begins to tell her the legend of whispering secrets into hole in a tree -- a place where no one can find them, where they will be safe.

The android does an OK sign with her fingers and insists:
“I will be your tree: whisper to me your secret”.

As his lips approached her hand to shed his secret, she moves it away.
They repeat this coy game several times until the circle made by her hand rests in front of her lips.


Though I won't be kissing any androids here... I will be telling my thoughts to a machine.... Mofo X Machina to Deus ex Machina.

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