Auteur Signature Film Form: 

• Rain – brings characters together
• Mirrors
• Use of colour, contrast of bold colours – doesn’t use colour theory 
• Pop songs – romantic not ironic 
• Step printing – alienates character 
• Hong Kong cityscape, neon, night 
• Wide lens and close up (?)
• High key, functional lighting 
• Unfinished scripts 
• Dynamic editing 
• Ignores narrative form 

Experimental use of Film Form: 

• Wide lens 
• Time manipulation – fast motion, slow motion, step printing, freeze frame 
• High key lighting 

Experimental Narrative Devices/Narrative Construction: 

• Ignores narrative form 
• Unfinished scripts
• Lack of exposition 
• No closed endings 
• No explanation of motivations 
• Ecliptic 

Auteur Narrative Style and Themes: 

• Crossing paths (characters)
• Loneliness
• Love
• Narrative – feeling not plot 
• Not standard narrative/structure – feeling not plot, circling, ecliptic 

Auteur Signature as Experimental: 

• Wide lens (and close up)
• Unfinished scripts
• Use of same actors
• Getting main actor, who’s a big star, to not speak 
• Amateur actors (the dad)

Auteur Signature and Meaning Making/Themes: 

• Alienated characters
• Loneliness 
• Love 
• Mirrors – shows internal climate of his characters