Happy Together.

The second film we watched was Happy Together. This film consists of a gay couple who have been in and out of a relationship several times, but this time they slowly break up-ending in an emotional heart break.

Characters: Ho flights in and out of Lai's life whenever he needs Lai's care. Whereas,  Lai is the quiet, loyal, nurturer-the sufferer who is slightly aggressive and violent towards his lover. We watch the men fall in and out of love and watch how far they can tolerate each other.

Camera and lighting:
Wong Kar-Wai uses and array of richly textured shots, he does this by:

• Using shuttering slow motion effects
• Fractured montage as Lai and Ho confront each other through a blizzard of quick cuts from every available angle and distance.
• A long take (30-40seconds), the camera holding relentlessly on Lai who weeps into the tap recorder.
• the sped-up footage of city traffic
• jump-cutting and iconography (the fixation on stationary objects, such as clocks, street signs, and statues).

Set Design: Several of the scenes are shot in Lai's bedroom- the room is a claustrophobic,dark and dingy in a run down building which instantly creates a depressing enviroment, in turn creating a specific mood. However, when Lai finally moves on with his life he visits Iguazu Falls in an attempt to 'start over'.