I woke up to silence and chill, the accusations of the klieg lights.
Wong’s features have not vitiated to the level of MTV because of the contexts they invoke: their historical nexus with past eras, their identification with the times, their interconnectedness of the local with the global, and, above all, their depth of meaning and feeling.
Wong’s cinematographers are almost as adept at rendering chiaroscuro as the great Caravaggio
As with so many of his works, it is invariably elegiac in tone, overladen with a pervasive sense of sadness, fatalism and resignation, though the mood is soothed by Wong’s impeccable artistry and good taste.
highly carnivalesque, of a kind that incorporates a Menippean discourse (after the satirical style of the ancient Greek philosopher Menippus), a style that is both comic and tragic, as Kristeva informs us
