Tsui sets his avoidance dances
in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out
in the open: a fountain
in a public
park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early
in Romancing
in Thin Air, itself a kind of compendium of all of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same film frame).