Session 17: Recent cinema from China (Hong Kong): 2046 — third of three sessions

Topics for this session

❖ Recent cinema from China (Hong Kong): 2046

Overall, persistent topics for this film:

• Characteristics, qualities, methods, completedness and reliability of communication between lovers
• Layering: role of memories in romance
• Layering: blending of boundaries of individuals (status of individual)
• Layering: Non-linearity (narrative structure, experience of the presence as tied to the past and future, especially the past—memories).
• Comparisons: Dreams in 2046 and Genji.
• Comparisons: Money in 2046 and Story of the Stone.

Possible topics for this session:

• Layering: Timelines and whether there is such a thing as an "Asian" timeline.
• Comparison: Flying Daggers and 2046 in terms of deception.
• Comparison: Layering of individuals in Flying Daggers and 2046
• Open topics

Thoughts*

nothing yet ...

Access details

Although your team has probably already solved access issues, the movie is available as follows:

• Netflix: DVD
• Media Resources Center (Moffitt): DVD 4876

Required—to be completed for today's session

Access through sidebar tab FILM MODULES:

✓ 2046: Fourth session questions (scene summaries optional)

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