This was the first collaboration between Wong Kar-wai and cinematographer Christopher Doyle, establishing the "dreamy" and "hallucinatory" visual style they would become world-famous for.

Consider the opening shot: A dense, bamboo forest against a lurid, painted sunset. On the Criterion disc, it's sharp. On the Internet Archive, it bleeds. The colors smudge. It looks like a half-remembered dream. Wong Kar-wai once said he makes films about the memory of a feeling, not the feeling itself. The degraded compression of the Archive version literally simulates memory degradation.

A search of the Internet Archive indicates that Wong Kar-wai’s film Days of Being Wild is not widely available for legal streaming or download on the platform. Due to copyright enforcement and the active preservation of rights by the copyright holders (Jet Tone Films and StudioCanal), most uploads of the full film are removed or are user-generated content that may not comply with the Archive’s terms of service.

Performances

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