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Episode 138

The poster for this one I love but it’s extremely busy and I wasn’t sure that was the way to go. Finding a simple way to represent it with just some minor tweaks to make it Unspool-ified was the trick.

Paul & Amy dream of 1994’s Wong Kar-wai romantic diptych Chungking Express! They look at Wong’s influence on modern auteurs like Quentin Tarantino and Barry Jenkins, trace a metaphor through the film for a Hong Kong in transition, and ask why it was considered “too MTV” by some contemporary critics. Plus: What does this film have in common with Final Fantasy VIII?

https://www.earwolf.com/episode/chungking-express/

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