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Days of Being Wild (1990)

★ 7.3 · 580 ratings on TMDB

You can hold me, but not my heart.

Days of Being Wild poster★ 7.3

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

DirectorWong Kar-Wai
CastAndy Lau, Angela Ponos, Carina Lau, Danilo Antunes, Hung Ling-Ling, Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau
GenresCrime, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Days of Being Wild keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, memory, identity, class, loneliness.

zero-distanceHKlovememoryidentityclassloneliness
Also inFilms about classFilms about memoryFilms about loveFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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