In this reading, the author discussed different aspect of why public housing estate become a ghostly place under Director Fruit Chan. For me, a student from mainland China, it is hard to imagine that how a global economical center will be have some places that appears to be ghostly at the beginning. However, as I investigate further into public housing condition through web searching and watching segments from Chan’s film. I realized that how large the difference is between through grandiose infrastructures such as high speed railway station or K11 Musa that represent Hong Kong and estates for public housing such as Wah Fu Estate. However, according to statistics over 2 million people lived in those old and shabby public housing estates. It is very likely that some of those people like airplane attendant or waitress at a 5 star hotels working at those grandiose infrastructures are actually living in a small and shabby home. For those people, those estates are where they grew up and where their spirits belongs to. Places that make people felt ghostly are usually those that significantly contrast with it surrounding environments. For Hong Kong, it is the huge contrast that make those housing estate appears to be ghostly.
I appreciate your reflective thought process on the contrast between commercial and residential spaces and the effect it has on the users of such spaces. You have explained the ghostliness in public housing estates and how this realistic portrayal of the city is diminished by the grandiose narrative of capitalism. Do check for grammar mistakes.