The era has passed. Nothing that belonged to it exists anymore.
One of the best films ever! For sure.
And I didn't realize it when I started watching, but this masterpiece was first shown in Hong Kong theaters today 23 yrs ago (09/29/2000). What a coincidence — as Ms. Chan and Mr. Chow repeated. (But yes, life is a product of a great number of coincidences, and they're the ones that make our lives a beautiful colorful mystery.)
“In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share, you know what they did? … They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever.”
Now that I know this film, I can never get back to my previous self.
