The cinema of Wong Kar-wai tends towards the romantic, both in terms of its stories and visuals. Chungking Express and Fallen Angels are about people falling in love and moving slowly, inexorably towards each other, and whether or not they end up together at the end is in some sense less important than the process itself. This is also true of his style, which replicates the sensory experience of modern life through its visual exuberance and, particularly in his earlier films, its kineticism and eclecticism. In his films, the images themselves tend to be as important - if not more so - than the events being depicted since they are key to getting across the atmosphere and texture of his world, which is one of love and the senses.
