Leung P.-K. and Seng, E.
films can be a lens for us to understand the urban and interior spaces in the past, not only can I see modernity in the industrial spatial setting of industrializing cities, but also in the film narrative itself. I can see the manifestation of the modernity spirit through the films. The city was undergoing construction, the film captured lots of grid-patterned modern buildings and modern buildings like hospital, highway etc. I think factories is symbolic place that can fully capture the rationality spirit of modernity. Fordism approaches that emphasises efficiency in production can tell what is modernity. We can also see