Philosophical Reflections on Existentialism and Phenomenology in the Films of Wong Kar-Wai

Since the 1990s, the unique image of Wong Kar-wai's films in the pattern of world cinema is getting more and more appealing throughout the world. Through the investigation of the status, role, identity and gender of Wong Kar-wai's films, we can find that Wong Kar-wai's films are a unique landscape of the auteur film in the context of Hong Kong's post-industrial and post-colonial society. Nowadays, more and more scholars have tried to combine Wong Kar-wai's films with philosophical and aesthetic theories when the world's diverse ideologies competed and disseminated. Then, the two philosophical theories of existentialism and film phenomenology have related connections about humans and nature, which have the opportunity to have a game-like theoretical interpretation with Wong Kar-wai's films, which may better unravel the inner flow of confusion and emotional tension of his films.