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The time Won Kar Wai spent writing scripts for TV soap operas is apparent in the narrative's episodic drift, as well as his admiration for such photographers as Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Richard Avedon, can be seen in the sharp attention to surface detail. Stylish and assured, with a soundtrack featuring lush easy listening tunes from the 1950s, Days of Being Wild has the added distinction of bringing together three of Cantopop's top-selling singers, Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau and Tony Cheung. It's this kind of dream-like, pop culture surrealism that has helped put Won Kar Wai in a league all his own. --Ken Hollings
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This DVD (along with Tartan's release of Wong's more action-orientated debut As Tears Go By) is appalling... with the company getting their hands on a Mandarin copy of the film that has the kind of dubbing more at home in a bad Kung-Fu film or at best, a post-war Italian melodrama. The source music is all wrong, not what Wong intended at all (most of it sounds like music taken directly from a soap-opera, or worse, soft-core porn), whilst the visuals are flat, grainy and filled with imperfections. What is the point of releasing a film on the definitive format of DVD and not going to the trouble of presenting the definitive version of the film itself? This edition of 'Days...' is worse than the VHS release from the mid-90's, and is really a great disappointment for those of us who splashed out £20 for this particular edition. I'm glad I didn't decide to buy As Tears Go By as well, or that would have been forty-quid down the drain. I really hope that Tartan don't get their hands on any more of Wong's films, for no matter how desperate I am to own DVD versions of Ashes of Time and Fallen Angels, I don't want to have to suffer through the appalling dubbing and picture quality found here.
Presenting the film in such a way shows a great disrespect to Wong as a filmmaker and to those of us stupid enough to fork over the cash for such a shoddy and substandard product. It is also a great disservice to the actors involved, in particular the great Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau and the late, great Leslie Cheung. For a more constructive review of the film itself, check out my comments on the VHS release... this is a vital and important film within the lexicon of Asian cinema, and is really the first masterpiece from the brilliant Wong Kar-Wai. Hopefully Tartan will rectify this error sometime soon (as they recently did with their sub-standard release of Lars von Trier's great film Europa... finally releasing the definitive version on DVD in 2005 as part of the von Trier Europa-Box-Set), but until then, you'd be better off sticking with the VHS.
If you're not bothered about the beautiful Maggie speaking in the voice of a mainland-China child, you might as well go ahead. For everybody else there is the Z1 KINO box set (KINO have even remastered most of the films) and an excellent Z2 - France box set (for everybody who speaks French. No english subtitles!!). Otherwise there's always a slight hope that Tartan might rectify their miserable mistake one day...
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