Understanding As Tears Go By (1988) | Are You Loyal?

Are you loyal?

Loyalty is something that most people strive to be. It is a good trait to have as it benefits the people you care for.

If someone needs your help, your loyalty is what gets them out of certain predicaments.

But sometimes being loyal can be a problem for yourself. To be loyal to those that are no longer loyal to you or even to those that are closest to you can mean that you can be used and manipulated to do things you never wanted to do.

To be peer pressured because you feel that if you are not loyal, then you are a bad friend or family member.

There is a fine line between someone being loyal and then going too far to the point of being harmful.

And that is what 1988’s As Tears Go By means to me.

Directed by Wang Kar Wai, the film follows Wah, a wannabe gangster living in Hong Kong. Him and his younger brothers Sky and Site go around trying to either maintain the respect they have as a gang or grow it by showing their bravery.

But this lifestyle that Wah has inhabited at a young age becomes a burden as he begins to fall in love with a girl called Ngor. She stays with Wah for a few days and during this period they become close.

And eventually fall in love.

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