Tailor's apprentice Chang Chen pays a call on his master's customer, Gong Li, a call girl who is currently a kept woman. She seduces him so he will make her beautiful clothing.
Wong Kar Wai's 56-minute short feature is an extended version of his movie that appeared in the anthology film EROS (2004), and is a work of obsession, decay and metonymy, in which the clothes of his object of desire become the container for the thing contained. It is also a study in the decay of beauty -- in this case, Miss Li's, the beauty of delayed sexual gratification, the distinction between appearance and reality, and, oh, many things or nothing, depending on the audience; you may simply see it as a bit of smutty rubbish. I don't. Take notice of the dominance of dirty browns and the filth in which the tailors create their beauty.
Wong Kar Wai's 56-minute short feature is an extended version of his movie that appeared in the anthology film EROS (2004), and is a work of obsession, decay and metonymy, in which the clothes of his object of desire become the container for the thing contained. It is also a study in the decay of beauty -- in this case, Miss Li's, the beauty of delayed sexual gratification, the distinction between appearance and reality, and, oh, many things or nothing, depending on the audience; you may simply see it as a bit of smutty rubbish. I don't. Take notice of the dominance of dirty browns and the filth in which the tailors create their beauty.