Through the construction of juxtaposing setting of interiors and exteriors and similar actions taken place in both, this notion of entrapment is exposed, but not only within the world around the characters but also within their psyches. The interior sets …show more content…
Wong uses historically accurate costumes to express the social norms of 1960s Hong Kong. Specifically, Mrs. Chan wears high heels and multiple different tight, high necked dresses called cheongsams. The Cheongsams connotes towards traditional China's social expectations for women, “ [the] dress reminds us of past societies’ expectations of women...she is first and foremost a woman and her womanhood is defined by her responsibilities to her husband and society at large”iv The costumes alone depict the notion of being caught in a cycle that these characters cannot escape because of their place in