He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future, but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention -- to recapture lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure whether it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back -- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.
A loose sequel of sorts to the director's own critical smash, In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 is a gorgeous-looking if vague mediation on love and the forces which shape us. Last seen jacking it up in the magnificent Infernal Affairs (2002), Tony Leung plays Chow, a playboy writer who moves to Hong Kong in an effort to finish his novel, 2046.
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