He notes that in the past, when Hou Hsiao-hsien's style was popular, the plots had clear linear development. Now the work of Hong Kong director Wong Kaiwei is in vogue, and in many scripts time and space are fragmented in a severe fin de si? cle vision that is nonetheless vibrantly colorful in its disjointedness.
他舉例，過去流行侯孝賢式、有強烈起承轉合的敘事方式；現在是香港導演王家衛美學當道，時間、空間斷裂的處理，塑造接近末世的蒼涼、是一種紛亂的繽紛。