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As with so many of his works, it is invariably elegiac in tone, overladen with a pervasive sense of sadness, fatalism and resignation, though the mood is soothed by Wong’s impeccable artistry and good taste.

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