Round 2: Tossup 15

This song plays as a shot of a woman unfolding a newspaper cuts to her throwing paper airplanes out of a window. This song plays over a scene where a customer asks a restaurant employee what she likes, to which she says “I’ll tell you when I find out”; when she asks him the same question, he beckons her in and this song becomes quiet, only for him to respond “Chef’s salad.” A woman playing this song extremely loudly on her (*) radio has to turn it off to give a man a letter from a flight attendant, which he refuses to read. In that film, a character narrates “six hours later, she was in love with another man” before the film (10[1])fades into the first appearance of this song over a Tony Leung-played policeman approaching the food stall where Faye works. For 10 points, a recurring motif in Chungking Express is what song recorded by The Mamas & the Papas that pines for the title Western state? ■END■

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