Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

Viewed April 26, 2021. It matches the first film's romantic whimsy, but expands its emotional range, its tragic sense of lives dominated by the rise and fall of the stock market. It's funnier as well as sadder, and To has his five main characters gracefully cross in and out of each other's paths like they're in a Lubitsch movie—if Lubitsch movies had fortune-telling octopuses and guys scaling skyscrapers.

not only arguably the film of the year but also one of the best romantic comedies ever made. to, perhaps our finest active genre director, masterfully harmonises composition, movement, music and casual symbolism to delineate theme and map out a subtly bleak and subversive commentary on his more traditional, elegant, flashily directed predecessor, even while rekindling and perhaps surpassing that film's loveliness and hilarity. hold this up as an ideal for all sequels to strive towards.

What this one has going for it compared to the first is that because it has more story parts moving, it moves in a much higher tempo. On the other side this high tempo and more complicated story with multiple characters leaves less room for characterization, something the first one did better.

Lam Suet spit takes are my new favorite thing in cinema

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