Released in 2004, 2046 is the Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s eighth feature, and also one of his successful motion pictures. As can be seen explicitly in the entitled number, ‘‘2046’’ represents the last year of the fifty years deadline in which China had promised that there would be no change in Hong Kong’s political and economic system after this city’s handover to China from Britain on the 1 July, 1997. If there’s something abiding in the world, what would it be? The complicated plot of 2046 focuses on this question inspired from the political promise, and relative to the irreversibility of time. In this thesis we try to look into the representation of Time in 2046 through Roland Barthes’s reflections upon photography in his last work, La chambre claire (1980). Based on the space-time visualized in the photo, Barthes’s opinions help us to clarify the number ‘‘2046’’, which is meant to be a place where things remain immovable against the time passing in the protagonist’s science fiction. Furthermore, we discuss the director Wong’s execution and idiosyncrasy to see how the Time plays as a key role in the whole narrative structure of 2046, but also a key role that connects this film with the other Wong’s movies shot before.