Understanding In the Mood for Love (2000) | Forbidden Love

Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is another expression of the many avenues love can take. And in this film we are shown the sadness and beauty of Forbidden Love.

A love between two people that cannot be expressed and thus they look into each other's eyes longing for the touch of their lips to meet but instead must refrain because it is a love that cannot be actioned.

This can be for many reasons but for our two main characters Chow and Li-Zhen it is because they do not want to be like their partners, who are having an affair.

These two are good people that are put in a circumstance that no one wants to be in.

Chow’s wife is having an affair with Li-Zhen’s husband and to make matters more complicated they are neighbours that moved in at the same time.

But what takes place after they find out about the affair is to try and understand why the people they love the most would act out to hurt them.

So Chow and Li-Zhen begin to meet up.

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