This is a beautiful gong for the price. The wood is a hardwood, nicely stained, heavy, and easily assembled. It is a gorgeous item to add to your decor or feng shui in home or office. As a low cost unique gift for the aesthetically sensitive, you can't do better, unless you can carve I.M. Pei replicas out of a bar of soap! Wong Kar Wai is a Hong Kong filmmaker whose work the Head Mallethead really enjoys. So we named this gong after him. If you haven't seen his work, rent a couple of his films. Moody, evocative, modern. He lets you see some of the passion and creativity alive in China today, separate from the hardcore drive to gain economic power, and zealous focus on suppression of dissent and religion. There are people there in the midst of all that power-lust, and their lives of love and desire, he evokes marvelously. A FEW BITS FROM A FEW OF HIS MOVIES. Chungking Express - In a poll published by Sight and Sound (the monthly magazine of the British Film Institute) asking fifty leading UK film critics to choose the ten best films from the past 25 years, Chungking Express was placed at number eight, and was described as arguably one of the best contemporary Asian films. 2046 From Premiere Magazine Ranked 2046 as one of the ten best movies of 2005: "Insanely evocative ’60s-style landscapes and settings share screen space with claustrophobic futuristic CGI metropolises; everyone smokes and drinks too much; musical themes repeat as characters get stuck in their own self-defeating modes of eternal return. A puzzle, a valentine, a sacred hymn to beauty, particularly that of Ziyi Zhang, almost preternaturally gorgeous and delivering an ineffable performance, and a cynical shrug of the shoulders at the damned impermanence of it all, 2046 is a movie to live in." Measurements: Height - 17 inches Width - 15 inches Depth - 4 inches |