I prefer Stanley Kwan's films in his "old-fashioned" way like his earlier films, Rogue, Centerstage, Love Unto Waste, Full Moon in New York etc. This film saw a major change in style. Very obviously, we can see that he was very much influenced by WKW's 2 recent hits, Chungking Express and Fallen Angels. The story-telling, screenplay and cinematography styles are very similar, even the Chinese title has the 2 words "dor lok"(fallen), a very unusual 2 words ever used in a film title, in fact none before WKW used it.
************SPOILER*********begins The big publicity hype created during its time of release, a full frontal for the first time by a actor(Chen Kam Hung in a Chinese movie is really unnecessary, so is the scene, which is actually "far" and "blur" and nothing to do with the script. ************SPOILER********ends
************SPOILER*********begins The big publicity hype created during its time of release, a full frontal for the first time by a actor(Chen Kam Hung in a Chinese movie is really unnecessary, so is the scene, which is actually "far" and "blur" and nothing to do with the script. ************SPOILER********ends