Wong Kar-Wai: an Auteur
- Known for starting to record films before the script was finished
- His protagonists are often searching,waiting or escaping
-His films involve views of Hong Kong's social and political issues because as a child he was an immigrant

aesthetic
-Lots of smoking=theme of loneliness
-colours used to convey emotions
-noisy cities, lots of colour, ambiguity in time

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