spoiler alert . you can listen to wong kar wai movie like a radio play represent invisible vibration between the character and the room where they stay in and the rhythm that press them ahead and attraction and dislike the whole spectrum of the atmosphere be play back by the sound track . the dialogue be mostly completely unimportant . the narration be similar to a childish amorous look at a beautiful woman and a sad man whose sorrow be noticeable and but helpless . in the mood for love be tell from a child perspective and but the child never appear a a narrator . the aesthetic of the film be develop by an extreme light and color dramaturgy and harsh cut and an unattached and almost documentary camera and a complex and unobtrusive sound . the genius use of nat king cole perhaps and perhaps and perhaps and whose mysterious power grow the more often it be repeat and the melancholic waltz help in the graceful choreography of the two protagonist . maggie cheung in her beautiful dress be brilliant and the perfect vi à vi to the handsome and stylish tony leung . the audience assume a romance between them and but wong just see sad resignation . the two potential lover be revolve around each other like satellite and know that they never will share the same orbit . you wish that they will find each other . they would not and the emotional power of their non love sex relationship make the movie immensely fascinate . it be about broken luck and unspoken love . in all of wong film these be the leitmotif . love and whether it come too early or it come too late to take the one and not the other person . the yearning of the character that be never satisfy and their loneliness and the mourning and and the luck that they experience when it be too late .