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The film is a typical Hong Kong masterpiece demonstrating the powerfulness of editing in rendering momentum to the narrative. Director Wong Ching-po tactfully uses parallel-cutting to manufacture an illusion on the temporal relations of the plots. Setting and costume between different temporal dimensions are minimally differentiated to perpetuate the illusion throughout. The full revelation is shown only in the last 5 minutes of the film.

No doubt that the director down plays violence in the plots. The use of mild tone music, slow motion and elliptical cutting dilutes the preponderance of violence in the fighting and killing scenes. The theme does not heavily focus on killing the gang's leader Hung (Andy Lau) but dwells on a deeper level of how one manages the relations to his opponents.

Wong also exhibits other cinematographic properties such as using floor clutter as transition device (the beginning sequence), 90-degree transverse images, blurred focus, wide-angle shot, accelerated motion, black-and-white sequences (flashbacks) and white-outs to enrich the film's aesthetic components. The product witnesses the functionality of editing in constructing a restrictive narrative structure that enhances the degree of readability of a plain story.

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