In this paragraph, the author illustrates the connection between cinema and the city. The author first raised the idea of the exorbitant city by mentioned various opinions towards the concept, such as complex, invisible, phantasmagoric, and labyrinthine. Based on the exorbitant town, the author then compared it with the generic city suggested by Koolhaas. The generic city is about the modern city without much identity or history, and the complexity makes the city generic. The other two examples, namely Crouching Tiger and the mood for love, explain the exorbitant and generic city in detail.
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A fair attempt at responding to Abbas’ commentary on the generic and exorbitant city. It would be great if you could expand on your concluding line and express in your own words how “Crouching Tiger and the mood for love, explain the exorbitant and generic city in detail.”