-By ROGER EBERT

"Fallen Angels'' is the latest work from the Hong Kong wild man Wong Kar-Wai, whose films give the same effect as leafing through hip photo magazines very quickly. It's a riff on some of the same material as his ``Chungking Express'' (1996), about which I wrote, ``You enjoy it because of what you know about film, not because of what it knows about life.''

I felt transported back to the 1960s films of Jean-Luc Godard. I was watching a film that was not afraid of its audience. Almost all films, even the best ones, are made with a certain anxiety about what the audience will think: Will it like it? Get it? Be bored by it? Wong Kar-Wai, like Godard, is oblivious to such questions and plunges into his weird, hyper style without a moment's hesitation.

To describe the plot is to miss the point. ``Fallen Angels'' takes the materials of the plot--the characters and what they do--and assembles them like a photo montage.READ MORE