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).
Brick veneer and the
air space - Harking back to «old - timer» practices — place a
thin sand layer at the bottom
of the 1 - inch
air space (to act as a bond break for mortar droppings) and leave bricks
out intermittently in the first course.
In another, procedurally generated environments — created by a sentient robotic species bent on manipulating time and
space in its favor — construct themselves
out of thin air as you maneuver the manufactured replacement core
of the planet Mercury.