The Great Lovers of Wong Kar-Wai's World
The self is Cop 223. He fell in love with a flight attendant. She fell out of love with him. On April 1, Cop 223 was notified by the flight attendant of her determination to end the affair. Because he was not ready for this bad news, it hit him so hard his heart broke in two and his self fell into that negative eternity I call lovesickness. This is a terrible place to be in. When there—the middle of lovesickness—your self-to-self tries to make some sense of the situation. It wants to be helpful. It looks for patterns in the pieces of the smashed relationship like a detective or a dream, a...