Ickapoo desires company te escape loneliness.But not all romances quell loneliness. It may intensify loneliness even.
In Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together (**** Chun gwong cha sit, 1997), queer love is not treated as a form of fulfilment but a means to a terminal end in misery, as pathological and indeed dysfunctional. Ho Po Wing (Leslie Cheung, 1956-2003) and Lai Yiu Fai (Tony Leung Chiu-wai, 1962- ) are constantly seeking to re-invent their relationship in order to keep their passions alive. In one such move, they take the brave step of migrating to Argentina, where they hope to “start over." In fact, starting over is a recurrent motif in their relationship. There, their relationship soon sours when they fail to find the magical Iguazu Falls (Figure 1). Instead, their car breaks down, and s
