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It's a disaster, an absolute disaster," one lady exclaims, perhaps bemoaning the gradual disintegration of her blown-out coiffure in the miasmal humidity. The crush of bodies, the humidity, and the effluvial cooking odors contributed to an insalubrious, miasmal environment. By the end of the film, the stylization has reached such a pitch that it reduces the narrative to a series of dislocated dream sequence-ettes geared, it would seem, to disorient viewers into thinking the lovers' failure to make their love real has something to do with the miasmal unreali ty of middle-class life in Hong Kong in the years leading up to China's Cultural Revolution, whose onset is hastily introduced as the film's meaningful subtext in its waning minutes. |
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