wow . this movie be great . if what you want be to be an active spectator and interactive with the movie and you will not be disappoint . you will try to think about what you see and try to solve this whole strange piece of art . it about the choice that we make ( small choice a to deceide yes or no to cut the moustache ) and what be the consequence on our life and the impact toward u by the people we know . be i important to their eye even if they be call friend and will they notify any difference on our life . it also about the search of our identity and and how our identity become the one of the other in a relashionship with a lover . you choose what ever be the meaning of this movie but i believe the director have it own precise explanation about every detail . i have my own and i think most of the movie be imagination of the character and and the only reality scene be the one where he walk everyday in the metro of hong kong and depress after his wife would have leave him during the vacation in hong kong and where he shave his moustache . even those vacation be a little bit transform mentally by the reconstitution and it a flash back and and all the scene in paris be imagination of a life he would have have with his wife if they would have stay together and with constantly rethink of his choice of shave the moustache . it like hanneke caché or more like lynch mulholland drive . we travel into the infinite spiral of the human spirit and everything be interior and subjective . the music of philip glass be sublime and will obsess you . you would not forget this movie and even if you do not like it .