As the writer said, “city allows itself to be evoked only through a certain kind of imagery”. Every city‘s impression is complicated and diverse, it could not be easily represented by a static picture. Therefore, the writer mentions that the instability of cinematic image could express the city. Meanwhile, many “anomalous details” in cinemas could lead to many turning points of audience understanding, which enable the city’s impression to become more stereoscopic and comprehensive. However, cinema may affect our understandings of a city. Due to “Cyber Kungfu”, the director could show images of the city that he wants to show, more than images of the city that he must show. Even though this Kungfu gives more space of creativity and less limitation of the reality, such appearance will construct a general understanding within the audience and make a city less unique.
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If the element of technology can be weaved in, your response could have been easier to be comprehended.
Abbas cited Crouching Tiger as a response to Generic City; a “liberation from the obsession with identity can be related to the liberties the film implicitly takes with time frames and the limitations of the body” (Abbas, 150). You seemed to be discussing about film makers exhaust the unrestraint freedom of generic city to their advantage just as how Ang Lee exploited technology through cyber kung fu in Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which allows the city and bodily movements to transcend beyond their limitations.