El Don Juan en el cine de Wong Kar-wai: Análisis de 2046

Abstract

This research was born from our interest in knowing the reasons why Mr Chow, one of the main characters in Wong Kar-wai’s cinema, can’t engage in any sentimental relationship. This enquiry leads us to study this character in relation with every woman that he seduces. His seduction strategies make us identify Mr. Chow with the Don Juan archetype. In our research, we will try to relate Mr. Chow’s figure with Don Juan as defined by Soren Kierkegaard in Diary of a Seducer: a man obsessed with aesthetics and the subjectivity, who transforms and reduces every conquest in his Idea of love, an impossible and spectral love. We analyze the film 2046, because is the film where this character conquers the largest number of women and because his Don Juan condition is more obvious here than in any other film. We take the film as a text, with an hermeneutic approach as proposed by Paul Ricoeur and H. G. Gadamer.