i wasn't in the mood for movies yesterday but i thot my bro gonna put up something english. he did not, instead showed a movie about the french resistance by the 7th algerian infantry division during the second world war. the movie was a close up of 4 arab algerian men fighting along side the french army to liberate italy and southern france from nazi occupation in circa 1944-45. each of them brought their dreams of greater acceptance and equality from their colonial master, as well as riches and a sense of belonging. this proved to be the things that even a so called civilised nation, france in this case, has a real trouble giving. and the shame, on top of the obvious inequality and discrimination of the soldiers from french colonies, was the fact that france have continually refused to award pensions to the native soldiers who had fought for her during the second world war.
wong kar wai shot this film in a time when pantene was nay impossible to be fund in the age where the sun, the desert, camels, renegades and travelling swordsmen were a norm and there was no place for silky, straight flowing hair was at all possible. casted with leslie cheung, the two tony's (leung ka fai and leung chui wai), jackie cheung and female heavyweights such as maggie cheung, carina lau and brigitte lin. everybody is reflecting of what they used to have, yearning for the past to be the future, regretting the past for the time they can not turn back.
