"In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share... You know what they did?"
"No idea."
"They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever."
"What a pain! I'd just go get laid."

Still probably the definitive cinematic depiction of romantic longing and loneliness, and its painful relationship to the age of time. Every texture, color, composition, song, and overall stylistic flourish contributes to an intense mood of lush melancholy. Also helps that most of this movie is just two of the hottest Hong Kong actors of all time sitting around beautiful mise-en-scène in beautiful clothing, smoking, and sensually eating rice and noodles.