YMMV / In the Mood for Love

• Alternate Character Interpretation: The director has stated that he finds it curious that the main characters are seen as virtuous, when they actually have a very strange relationship.
  Wong: Actually, the role of Tony in the film reminds me of Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo. There is a dark side to this character. I think it's very interesting that most of the audience prefers to think that this is a very innocent relationship. These are the good guys, because their spouses are the first ones to be unfaithful and they refuse to be. Nobody sees any darkness in these characters — and yet they are meeting in secret to act out fictitious scenarios of confronting their spouses and of having an affair. I think this happens because the face of Tony Leung is so sympathetic. Just imagine if it was John Malkovich playing this role. You would think, "This guy is really weird." It's the same in Vertigo. Everybody thinks Jimmy Stewart is a nice guy, so nobody thinks that his character is actually very sick.
• Awesome Music: The "Angkor Wat Theme" composed by Michael Galasso is almost too beautiful and heartbreaking to be believed.
• Narm/Narm Charm: The gratuity of slow-motion would make Zack Snyder blush, but whether or not it works is up to the viewer.
• Tear Jerker: Throughout, but especially the ending, when Chow, realizing that they will most likely never be together, goes to Angkor Wat to whisper what is presumably a declaration of love into a hole in the cliff.