IN THE MOOD OF LOVE

Another Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece, prequel to 2046, is my all time favourite. Similar to many of his films, this film dealed with human's emotion and relationship. Story is quite simple, Chow (Tony Leung) and Li Zhen (Maggie Cheung) are neighbours, discovering that their spouse have secret affairs with each other. In their effort to find out how it happened, slowly they found themselves falling for each other.

This movie made me wandering once again, about relationship and how far can we go? In reality, many people have secret affairs although they have their spouse, be it straight or gay.

At the first place, why people searching for affairs even they have someone? I have been thinking for the reasons for quite sometime, and lately it runs through my head. People search for affairs, I think, mainly because of uncontrolled feeling, sexual desires or too much problems with the existing spouse. However, it is also weird to see that if they want to search for affairs, they still keep their existing spouse. Probably it's because of security, they don't dare to loose both if anything goes wrong.

Many argued that this is an selfish act. Yes, i agree with that, but didn't all of us are born with selfishness? For example, when you heard someone said "fire!fire!" the first thing you will think of is that you want to run and escape, then only you will think of other people besides you. So, it's common to see we love ourselves more than other people. In other way, you can say we are all selfish.

Again, there is nothing right or wrong in love. When we face problems in emotion, normally it's hard to handle, because we are bound of ethics, which we are influenced by traditions and culture that dictate right or wrong.

So, if you ever fall into the trap of triangle love or four corners love like In The Mood of Love, I believe the only way you can do is to focus of what you want.