Society supports and also confines us, so naturally this is very fertile ground for all variety of art; be it satirical, comedic, or body horror.

Don’t be blinded by the action and exploding [censored], Prisoners of the Ghostland boasts a strong morality message on how we can make things actually great for once; not ‘again’ because there is no actual ‘great again’ when we discuss the past.

Since La Dolce Vita premiered, we've been treated to so many versions and variations of this story, all with varying degrees of glitz and sadness. While there have been no direct remakes, there has been a pretty impressively diverse group of films that have been inspired by it.

There is a spectrum for how humans think of the future: at one end are the people who look forward to Mars colonies and widely available sex robots, and at the other end is the Unabomber. Before We Vanish, Antiviral and Mindhack #savetheworld teeter somewhere in-between completely fatalistic and blindly idealistic.

Or "An excuse to go on about Hong Kong cinema."