Talk:In the Mood for Love

Transliteration of Chinese title
The page gave "Fa yeung nin wa" as the Jyutping romanization, which is clearly wrong (see the Jyutping page). It _is_ the Yale romanization except with no tone marks. I imagine this one is given since it's what's used on IMDB, so I've labeled it as Yale and put the Yale tone-mark version in parens. If you're curious, the Jyutping would be: faa1 joeng6 nin4 waa4 which I believe is IPA /faː/ /jœːŋ/ /niːn/ /waː/ (but I'm not a Yue speaker, just familiar enough with Han characters to look up their romanization). 209.6.44.80 (talk) 22:33, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Translation of Chinese title
Hmm, the literal translation of 'fa yeung nin wah' sounds a bit wrong to my (admittedly not so good) chinese ears. Can anyone confirm that the translation is good? O/w I am going to 'be bold' and change it a bit. novacatz 00:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

- maybe "The Magnificence of Years Passed like Flowers"? --WongFeiHung 20:06, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * There is some discussion of it on the imdb boards (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/board/nest/34770420). A few of the more pertinent comments:
 * Fa" = Flower
 * "yeung" = in this context loosely means "like" or "resemble"
 * "nin wa" = year/era
 * Together, this phase in Chinese is used to describe a woman in her prime year.
 * "The Magnificence of our Years Passed like flowers"
 * So I can see how "Age of Blossom" is another translation, but I haven't seen any other reference for it. Polyglut, do you have a reference? --VinceBowdren 22:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * So I can see how "Age of Blossom" is another translation, but I haven't seen any other reference for it. Polyglut, do you have a reference? --VinceBowdren 22:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Since we're on the topic of translations, are the song title translations official? They're not really wrong per se, but I think a better job could be done.173.66.16.240 (talk) 05:56, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

font problems
I can't read the "English" transcription/transliteration: Instead of letters there are numerals at the end of the words. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kdammers (talk • contribs).
 * Do you mean "fa1 yeung6 nin4 wa4"? These numbers are the tone markers. See Yale Romanization. Kusma (討論) 02:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I see. I have never seen numerals at the end of words  in transcriptions of Chinese before.  Does this conform to Wiki standards?  If so, fine.  If not, should either the standards or the entry be changed? Kdammers 09:08, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Plot synopsis question
The two protagonists spent a night together? What does that imply? Perhaps with how subtle the movie is in places, I didn't see that, but I don't think what is being implied actually happened. --Sephiroth9611 (talk) 14:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sephiroth9611, this question is years old by know, and the plot summary has since been rewritten to more precisely cover what is explicitly revealed on-screen, but I'll try to tackle it anyway. The trouble is that the process by which Wong Kar-Wai made this film involved filming scenes from a variety of contradictory storylines, then assembling one coherent story through the editing and post-production processes. But there is evidence that at least some of these possible storylines involve a sexual liason between the two protagonists. An early trailer for the film contains a shot of the two having sex which did not make it into the film, and if I recall correctly there is commentary on the Criterion Collection edition of the film suggesting that Chow is the bioligical father of the son Su has in the penultimate scene of the film, though Chow doesn't know this himself. The final cut of the film, however, leaves this all rather ambiguous, and the editors of the plot summary have been right to reflect this ambiguity. Lunasspecto (talk) 02:29, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

If we're talking about Plot synopsis ambiguities, as I recall, the claim that Chow does not realize that Su is the woman with the son who is living next door when he returns is not unambiguously clear from the film. I think there's something more particular going on with that scene, and the immediately following intertitle, than just "not realizing". I see a distinct possibility in him making a deliberate choice not to inquire any further, particularly regarding her now having a son - things have changed, her life is different now to when they had their experience together, they cannot return, she has new ties to new things that may lead to more heartbreak etc. At the very least, I think the commentary that he "does not realize" is too specific for a scene that can produce more interpretations than that. Maybe there's something in the translation leading me astray and the "not realizing" is better-supported than I'm picking up on. 2A00:23C6:3081:3B01:2F:81BD:3F6D:D87A (talk) 15:56, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Seedling in the hollow?
IIRC, the second time he speaks into a hollow at Angkor Wat, there is a seedling in there. I came away from the film thinking that was as overt as the film got about the child being his. MMetro (talk) 11:50, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

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This is not the HK poster. It features simplified characters.
.. for example 样 is the simplified version of 樣. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.79.208.215 (talk) 00:17, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Good catch. This seems to be an example of an actual HK poster. Opencooper (talk) 06:36, 11 June 2019 (UTC)