英文摘要 |
This article aims to investigate the strategy of "southern orientations" deployed in Wong Kar-wai's feature films, up to The Grandmaster of 2013. Generally a "turn" to the south, in the form of displacement to a southern location in cinematic spatial arrangements, is invoked when Wong's movie needs a resolution to the dilemma posed to his protagonists. For the purpose of analysis, Wong's movies are divided into two groups in terms of the question of the south: those in which the turn to the south or southern orientation is prominent and plays a crucial role in the trajectory of the story, as in Days of Being Wild and 5 others, and those in which the turn to the south is less outstanding or even negligible, as in Chungking Express and 3 others. In the first group, the turn to the south serves as a pivot, while in the second group, it works metaphorically and tangentially. The article proceeds to explore the different significance, values, and effects of different "southern orientations" in Wong Kar-wai's movies in the context of a general discussion of the meaning of the south as well as the strategy of the "turn," in relation to the particular deployment in each of his movies |