highly carnivalesque, of a kind that incorporates a Menippean discourse (after the satirical style of the ancient Greek philosopher Menippus), a style that is both comic and tragic, as Kristeva informs us
Here, history functions as a teleological process that determines the final nature of its characters and the course of events
He achieves this through a combination of monologic dialogue and allowing the characters to have their own emotional space without a common thread of a plot structure
Wong’s characters are like zombies moving around somnambulistically in a subtropical urban landscape, abandoned to the elements by a perfidious lover
The film portrays human life as one of limited possibilities. We can imagine So Lai-chen spending the rest of her days collecting Coke bottles and stamping admission tickets, and sympathetically wish better things for her. It is as if by giving up on her lover and the imagined possibilities of a ri…
