Tech-tonic shifts
By Chitralekha Basu |
HK EDITION |
Updated: 2025-10-17 15:05
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Wong's film illustrates how today, the generation gap is also about the difference between the digitally enabled and the rest. Using his unique visual language — lurid colors, suggestive imagery and human figures reduced to simplified geometrical forms such as cylinders and circles — Wong tells the story of an old man who longs for VHS cassettes. After his digital grave is consigned to cloud storage, his son forgets the password, leaving him in eternal solitude.
