Wong Kar-Wai

[Keith]

Jean-Marc Lalanne's essay, 'Images From the Inside,' (in _Wong Kar- 
Wai_, Editions Dis Voir: Paris) on Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai's  
films, reads like a description of Pynchon's writing style.

"Wong Kar-Wai's narratives are always made up of pieces that never  
add up to a full set. Sometimes the narrative parts are simply  
juxtaposed, and sometimes they are interwoven in a more convoluted  
way. [...] The driving principle of his fiction consists in forming  
pairs [...] and the film continues until all the possibilities for  
pairing up the characters have been exhausted. [...]  [The stories]  
always move forward haphazardly, and for twenty or so minutes,  
characters we thought of as secondary come to the fore, during which  
time we practically forget about the main characters. The narrative's  
perspective lines are constantly undone, only to be put back together  
more sinuously than ever. Every fragment of the story stages a  
temporary overthrow inside the film."
(p. 10)

His remarks regarding the manipulation of space and time also sound  
strangely familiar.

The essay, but moreso Kar_wai's films are highly recommended.