5 May 2025
In The Mood For Love (2000)—what sticks most was how effectively it circled around the main implication/possibility/preoccupation, the patience with which it treated a full exploration of the container for the unfulfilled event, the swirl of conclusions in the mind that prevent them from taking place in waking life. It's an interesting premise for a painting, maybe—what could be a payoff in paint that comes from desire resisted to the point of vanishing, almost as if it was never there in the first place? Maybe a cloud in a transparent box up a ladder in a tree.