During my Hong Kong Cinema trip, our hotel offered a complimentary English-style breakfast with different items each morning, including eggs Benedict on an English muffin, toast, hash browns, cornflakes, sausages, coffee, pastries, and baked beans. In Hong Kong, Many hotels serve both English and Cantonese breakfast options side by side, which reflects the city’s international …
This photograph was taken during my Hong Kong Cinema class trip at the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. Like many of the tourists climbing the stairs to the monastery, I took dozens of pictures of the golden figures lining the pathway. At the time, I mostly experienced the site visually. I …
The question was, “What formal or thematic questions related to the film would be useful to explore in discussion?” Comparing One-Armed Swordsman and Come Drink With Me made me think more critically about the relationship between violence, class, and tradition in wuxia films. At first, I mainly focused on the action and stylistic differences between …
These questions are from my Hong Kong Cinema class in response to the film Come Drink With Me. The class was the first class I had that challenged the assumptions I make when viewing art. Watching Come Drink With Me changed the way I think about action films and the role women play within them. …
