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Author Amanda Lee Koe's short story collection, especially, is Wong Kar Wai-like in its capacious infusion of Singapore pop culture, nostalgia and hearts torn between instinctive defensiveness and vulnerable loneliness.
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SINGAPORE – A recent trip to Hong Kong has set me on a Wong Kar Wai binge. In just two weeks, I have devoured four of the Hong Kong film-maker’s works, each a darkly glamorous and sensual vision of illicit, callous romance and peripheral abandon.
Walking the hilly streets of the special administrative region with international journalists, I had to slow my steps every few metres as they paused to take photos of dark alleys and garish signboards, illuminated against apartments that were ever so slightly shoddy and rundown.
