[Video Essay] Hybrid City

https://youtu.be/59YaP758nEE A hybrid city—corridor Walking along the corridor, what do people feel? This video performs a suppressing atmosphere with various transitions between corridors. Corridors, open spaces located between different exits and joints of surrounding environments, usually long and narrow. Unlike a room, corridors are merely an access for walking through and reaching destinations. It is worth noting that a long and narrow space triggers people thinking, rendering a sense of orientation both on their thoughts and walking. Regarding the story plot, this video is not a documentary, which introduces the function of the corridors and the heritage culture exclusively. Instead,

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[Reading Response: Christine Boyer]

Sci-fic films often show various possible worlds of artificial intelligence and cyberspace. A modern cities and the sci-fic plots interlace with each other, rendering the space of fantasy to the audience, developing CyberCities with turning the time and space in our daily life into an imaginary cyberspace and dystopia. As for the Machine City, idolization appears in the city and liberates the messages of the darker side of the city. The ruler uses their power to force people follow the norm, establishing their authority with a view to controlling everything or fulfilling their vanity. People have to stay in their

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[READING RESPONSE] PAMELA ROBERTSON WOJCIK

  This article identifies various features of the apartment plot as well as taking up numerous case studies through the panoptic spectrum of the apartment plot as a critical tool for analysis, evaluating the significance of the apartment plot associated with the different genres.   The writer believes that the apartment plot is not just merely a setting, instead, it configures the narrative in certain ways. It inspires me to have a contemplative thought in accordance with the role of the apartment plot. Not only can narrative be expressed via dialogue and verbal communication, but it also can utilize the

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[FIELDWORK] FALLEN ANGELS, YUE MAN SQUARE

FALLEN ANGELS, DIR. WONG KAR WAI (1995)           Yue Man Square, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong Fallen Angels (1995) is a film which encompasses crime, romance and comedy. Two almost unrelated romantic storylines interlace with each other in the same locations. The first story commences with a female who is the agent of the killer (main character), cleaning a dingy and messy room. Obsessed with the killer, she fantasizes with his objects and the place he often goes. Events in the first story take place in Yue Man Square and the places nearby Kwun Tong, including the symbolic

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