| Errors | Missing | Unverified | Supported |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
Counts based on original analysis categories (not yet classified).
Errors = Critical Errors + Imprecisions
Missing = Critical Omissions + Notable Gaps
The ending of Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express is famously open-ended, but it is widely interpreted as an optimistic "yes." While the film stops just short of showing them as a formal couple, the final scene strongly implies that they are finally on the same path and ready to begin a relationship.
Here are the specific details of how their story concludes:
After Faye spends weeks secretly redecorating Cop 663’s apartment, he finally catches her and asks her on a date at a restaurant called "California." Faye does not show up. Instead, she sends her cousin to tell him she has left for the real California. She leaves him a letter containing a hand-drawn "boarding pass" dated one year later, but the destination is blurred because it gets soaked in the rain.
The film jumps forward one year. Faye returns to Hong Kong, having actually become a flight attendant (the same profession as Cop 663’s ex-girlfriend). She visits "Midnight Express," the snack bar where she used to work.
Faye discovers that Cop 663 is no longer a policeman. He has bought the "Midnight Express" snack bar from her cousin and is in the middle of renovating it. He is playing the song "California Dreamin’" (the song Faye obsessed over) at a high volume. This signifies a complete role reversal: he has taken on her old life, and she has taken on the life of the woman he used to love.
Cop 663 reveals that he kept the original, blurred boarding pass she gave him a year prior. He asks her if a boarding pass that has been "expired" for a year is still valid. She tells him she can write him a new one and asks where he wants to go.
The movie ends with a classic piece of Wong Kar-wai dialogue. When Faye asks where he wants to travel, Cop 663 looks at her and says:
"Wherever you want to take me."
Conclusion:
The film ends on this note of mutual readiness. By switching roles and meeting again a year later, they have shed their past baggage—his heartbreak and her flightiness—and are finally synchronized. The "boarding pass" serves as a metaphor for their relationship finally taking flight.
No oversights detected.
Yes, the ending of Chungking Express strongly implies that Faye and Cop 663 end up together, though it is not explicitly shown. After a missed date where Faye leaves for California (the place) for a year, she returns to Hong Kong as a flight attendant. She finds that Cop 663 has quit the police force, bought her cousin's snack bar ('Midnight Express'), and is renovating it while listening to her favorite song, 'California Dreamin''. In the final scene, Cop 663 shows her the 'boarding pass' she drew for him a year ago (which he says is 'dated today') and asks if it is still valid. When she asks where he wants to go, he replies, 'Wherever you want to take me,' signaling their mutual readiness to start a relationship.