From Wayne Wang: we had no idea what to shoot when we went into this. We just read the newspaper every day and decided what to shoot for that day. Maggie Cheung is a bit crazy but full of HK vibe and she needed no script (WKW?). Gong Li was in because the production company wanted it. He was naive about the handover, but things happened eventually
近两年看过感触最深的一部描写时代转折变迁的影片套用并修改一句主人公John说的:I used to write about France's future, as if I can know its definite direction and predictable how it come, but everything in this country has always been changing, maybe I wasnt meant to figure out. ”