(Her name is May and pineapple is her favorite fruit and May 1st is also his birthday. Every day, for the entire month following the fact, he buys a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1st. The most curious of Cop 223’s post-breakup rituals revolves around pineapple. He visits the street under her window and kicks rocks around glumly, reminiscing on the good times they had together. He develops a worrying attachment to his beeper (okay fine, I admit it, I had to look up how these things work), which has inconveniently taken a vow of silence.
Even after the break-up, he calls in on his ex’s family, who always happen to be on their way out (doubt), reluctant to be the ones to tell him that she’s not there at all. It understands that trailing not far behind rejection is denial, loneliness, plummeting self-interest that a bad-weather shelter need be hastily constructed, that silly rituals do the important job of anchoring us to the earth in the violent cloudbursts of grief.įor Cop 223, it’s as if someone has shifted the floor under him a couple of meters, and this floor happens to be in to a subway station. It knows how aching a first heartbreak is. But there is a reason (a number of reasons, actually) why every great contemporary auteur – Quentin Tarantino most famously has declared his undying love for it, and Barry Jenkins has spoken about it at length as well – cites Chungking Express as a key inspiration in their own filmmaking.įor one thing, it’s gentle and earnest, in a really human way. With a superficial watch, Chungking Express can easily be written off as unambitious, purposeless, lacking the substance to merit the ardent praise heaped upon it. After dinner, take a seduction cue from Cop 663 and treat your dearest to a massage.I was not expecting to see content like this on Reddit, what I consider a post-adolescent online platform, but when I did, I knew that this was how I’d be digging myself out of this bout of writer’s block.įirst, the video itself: here we have a montage of scenes from the 1994 Hong Kong film Chungking Express, specifically stitching together all of the appearances made by Cop 223 – perhaps the forefather of today’s beam-me-up-softboi simps – overlaid with the Daft Punk track “Something About Us” from their 2001 album Discovery. Actress and singer Faye Wong, who plays the love-struck snack bar worker, covers "Dreams" by the Cranberries, and her character repeatedly listens to "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas.
Let the Chungking Express soundtrack influence your own. Roasted Pineapple with Star Anise Pineapple Sorbet completes the feast, but unlike its cinematic inspiration, our dessert features fresh rather than canned fruit. Serve this with a miso- and ginger-topped green salad-it's a more appropriate side dish than the four chef's salads Cop 223 eats while the "woman in blonde wig" sleeps. In honor of the food stall that connects the two plots in Chungking Express, our menu features a big bowl of soupy noodles studded with pork, mushrooms, and cabbage. Yield:Ĭlassic Hong Kong street food, with pineapple for dessert The Menu: Discuss your love life with inanimate objects such as soap, mops, and clothing. Sneak into your crush's home to clean, and put goldfish in his or her fish tank. Cans of pineapple that expire on May 1, a blonde wig, and a handwritten boarding pass Preparation:
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