The author focused on analysing the formation of ghostliness in Chan’s movies based on the recent history of Hong Kong’s public housing. The ghostliness was utterly different from the horror movies. It was a sense of anxiety, loneliness and depression caused by the dense and messy residential housing environment for the lower and middle classes in Hong Kong. Chan revealed the significant inequality between privileged and underprivileged classes by focusing on presenting the public housing areas under the ghostly context. Beneath the significant transformation happening in Hong Kong at that time, both commercially and politically, we could discover the anxiety and culture of disillusionment immersed in the lower and middle classes through Chan’s movies. The emotion of public housing residents demonstrated in the films was rooted in the socio-political environments of Hong Kong back in the 1970s and 1980s and was further developed into diverse forms based on specific cultural contexts.
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Good summary and explanation on how ghostliness is used to convey the societal and housing issues experienced by the underprivileged in Chan’s films. You can be more specific when describing the socio-political environment in Hong Kong (i.e. colonialism) to help clarify your argument more.