The reading passage examines how the usage of ghosts helps “Made in Hong Kong” understand the history of the locale. The use of ghosts in the movie alludes to the residents of Hong Kong’s memories and concerns for the city’s future. The “ghost town” setting serves as an example of how Hong Kong’s rapid development and change have driven people to relocate and erased some of the city’s past. The movie presents a new viewpoint on intricate social and historical topics by incorporating supernatural components, which inspires us to consider the difficulties facing modern civilization. The portrayal of the ghost

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In The Apartment complex, which contains unique thematic, visual, and textual frameworks addressing the different modes and possibilities of contemporary urbanism, a large community of foreign researchers examine the apartment plot in a global sense, analyzing films produced both within and outside Hollywood studios. The writers discuss the connections of the apartment plot with film noir, horror, humor, and music, discussing how various regional or historical backgrounds change the apartment plot and how the structure of the genre helps one to reconsider authors ‘ research and recognise constructive linkages and contradictions between often unrelated texts. I also believe, however, that

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Amanda Klein suggests, film cycles “are a series of films associated with each other through shared images, characters, settings, plots or themes.” While Pamila argued that the apartment plot has developed a new genre out of these prominent cycles. It is hard to put an apartment plot into any type or genre, where it seems to follow the equivalent trajectory of events yet the narrative highly depends on the apartment background. The apartment itself contains the initiative and porousness to work as a depiction of this movie, for example, we could easy to tell the unconscious peeping desire of the

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