What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the
auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective
statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but
as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has
as much emotionally invested in the picture's success
as the person at its helm.