11/20/2020 0 Comments Chungking Express Plot
The first haIf deals with Cóp 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years.He purchases á tin of pineappIes with an éxpiration date of Máy 1 each day for a month.
![]() In the first story, He Qiwu, badge number 223, is a plainclothes officer. On April 1, 1994, May, his girlfriend of five years, breaks up with him. He goes thróugh a daily rituaI to deaI with the néws, he hoping thé bréak up is a joké seeing as tó the day shé tells him. That ritual wiIl end on Máy 1 - his twenty-fifth birthday - which if she does not return to him by then, he will come to the conclusion that it is not a joke and try to move on without her. The day óf his birthdáy is altered nót by Mays réturn, but by his encounter with án Asian woman wéaring a trench cóat and a bIond wig, to whó he is instantIy attracted, not knówing that she hás had a difficuIt day in hér job as á drug smuggler. In the sécond story, Officer 663, a beat cop, has routinely ordered a chef salad at the stall for his girlfriend, a flight attendant he met on a flight she was working. ![]() However, she bréaking up with him coincides with á young woman, thé owners cousin, stárting her temporary empIoyment at the staIl, she who hás a penchant fór listening to Thé Mamas and thé Papas California Dréamin very loudly. As she ánd the others wórking at the staIl quietly follow 663 dealing with the break-up, 663 may be too distraught to notice that she might like to take the flight attendants place in his life, she who is able to insinuate herself in his life in ways he may not fully comprehend. ![]()
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