The director, however, has not changed much: like Mood, like his 1991 film Days of Being Wild, which was set in the same time and place and involved the same intractable questions, this is a film of surfaces, atmosphere, and fluid but delimiting time.

• 导演并没有太多改变，跟《花样年华》、《阿飞正传》（1991）一样，同样的时代，同样的地点，同样的难题，这是一部关于影像、氛围，关于一边飞逝一边又将人拘囿的时间的电影。