A film about love that is mired in reality (though shot through the lens of alcehmist - truly a visual experience to be savoured)though not gritty reality, just every day boring life and love, the sort of love we go through each day ourselves, the kinda incomplete love where two people touch each other briefly and spend more time dreaming of what could be rather than it actually taking place. I am not going to go into any details about the plot (some people have accused it of not having one)or what takes place in the film, just want to say that this is the real deal.
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There, that is as simple as I can make it out. The Hong Kong cut was released on VHS/laserdisc by World Video and on VHS/LD/DVD by Mei Ah. The international cut is Wong's preferred version and has been used for most home video releases. The international version strips out the music (leaving only ambient noise), although "Dreams" still appears at the end of the film. In the Hong Kong version, the Faye Wong cover of "Dreams" plays over the shot of 663 drinking coffee.The sequence with Zhiwu loitering outside his girlfriend's window appears earlier in the international edit.The international version includes the kidnapping of an Indian girl, which does not occur in the Hong Kong version.Indian music plays during the smugglers' arrival at the airport in international prints in the Hong Kong version, the title theme plays.
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The international version expands the scenes where The Blonde prepares for the smuggling trip and later searches for the smugglers.
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'Kar Wai Wong' made several changes to the international version, bringing the running time to 102 minutes: The original Hong Kong release ran 98 minutes.