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Differences In The Mood For Love

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In The Mood For Love is set in 1960s Hong Kong. It is portrayed in the time where the Shanghainese community immigrated from China while still continuing their own customs and local identities such as dialects, food, popular music and traditions. In a book called, Hong Kong: Culture and the politics of disappearance, Abbas (1997) mention that there is a clear defined differences between the Hong Kong Chinese and the mainland Chinese which has a common ethnicity yet separated, that is somehow a first example of disappearance. The film centers on two main characters, Mrs. Chan and Mr. Chow who rent their rooms next to each other in a cramped and crowded apartment. Through circumstances and over time, both characters in the film learn that their

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