DAYS OF BEING WILD
[via Wong Kar-Wai & Leslie Cheung]
DAYS OF BEING WILD
Didn’t get any sleep--
are your ears red?
You can’t deny it.
Sure,
once,
for that day,
boring.
End.
I wonder what she’s doing
now?
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DAYS OF BEING WILD
Didn’t want to see me.
As I was leaving
you switched from cop to
sailor.
Owe you this one.
Flew & flew, never touching down until it died.
Beautiful day,
each other,
I remember
nothing.
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Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, Md US / 5-4-05 (11:36 PM)
When Wong Kar-Wai’s 1991 feature film starring Leslie Cheung was first
revived in a new print for a one week commercial run, I’ve was intrigued by
two reviews I read but not quite enough to motivate me to face a drive
downtown during rush hour and uncertain parking. Then, a few weeks later,
I was surprised to discover that it was available for rental as a DVD but
anticipated that it might not be within the taste range of my viewing
partner. Regretting the missed opportunities and assuming that my next
chance to see it in a theatre wouldn’t occur for a few years, I took
advantage of a most unexpected retrospective (itself anticipating the 2005
release of two new works) of this director’s films a few months later at
the American Film Institute in Silver Spring. Although I much
preferred “CHUNGKING EXPRESS” and “IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE” to “DAYS OF BEING
WILD”, only the twice-missed film provoked any writing during my viewing of
it. On top of that, my viewing partner independently decided to rent the
DVD of “DAYS OF BEING WILD” and during our experience of the film made
certain suggestions for revision which I incorporated. I still have on
hand an unrevised draft of 14 lines from my second viewing (a new
beginning which might function as an odd middle), but decided to present my
first and last texts together at this time because of their uncanny matched
lengths of 10 lines.
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