Wong Kar-Wai Film Chemistry

Text on the meme

CHUNGKING EXPRESS 중경삼림 FALLEN ANGELS A FILM BY WONG KAR WAI AS TEARS GO BY In the Mood for Love

What it means

Walter White from Breaking Bad, wearing a yellow protective suit and glasses, carefully handles a liquid with a pipette while posters for Wong Kar-Wai films surround him. The joke treats the director’s melancholy movies like a highly delicate chemical experiment, implying that Wong Kar-Wai meticulously manufactures sadness for lonely viewers. It is used as a reaction to artistic over-seriousness, intense romantic melancholy, or someone deliberately creating an emotionally devastating mood.

Who

Walter White (Breaking Bad)Bryan Cranston (Брайан Крэнстон)Wong Kar-wai (王家衛)

Objects

bald man with goatee / лысый мужчина с козлиной бородкой yellow protective suit / жёлтый защитный костюм safety glasses / защитные очки pipette / пипетка glass container / стеклянная ёмкость liquid / жидкость movie posters / постеры фильмов film poster / киноафиша laboratory / лаборатория wooden table / деревянный стол dark room / тёмная комната hand / рука