The development of small cities like Singapore brings prosperity, meanwhile forcing residences, even dead people who have been buried, to keeping moving from one place to another, which is quite lamentable but helpless. I am quite shocked that they deconstruct their ancestral tombs, which is considered to be very offensive in Chinese tradition, but concepts might evolve with development…

I notice that there is a very long first-person-view when two leading characters gets on pirate ship in amusement park, and when the girl do reminiscence on the bed there are colored blocks, like decorative lights, in the shot. May I ask the purpose of these unique shooting techniques? SHEN Leyan

This article mentioned the dazed and weak feeling when walking out of the theater, which is described as just waking up from hypnosis. In which the darkness of cinema is considered an element that provides the audience with a sense of intimacy, body freedom, and anonymity. I could very much resonate with this, and I also feel that such experience might become increasingly pronounced under today’s social context. There is a lack of this sense of privacy and anonymity when socializing and working with others nowadays, leaving limited outlet for emotions. In a movie theater, cell phones are turned off,

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