You may be thinking about Peter van Stolk and wondering what car or supply company he works for, or maybe whether he has something to do with a SEMA-style aftermarket firm.

By the end of the film, the stylization has reached such a pitch that it reduces the narrative to a series of dislocated dream sequence-ettes geared, it would seem, to disorient viewers into thinking the lovers' failure to make their love real has something to do with the miasmal unreali ty of middle-class life in Hong Kong in the years leading up to China's Cultural Revolution, whose onset is hastily introduced as the film's meaningful subtext in its waning minutes.

Of course the availability of guns has something to do with it, but thousands of boys in the Midwest and the South hunt and never use guns violently; millions of kids watch television and are consequently desensitized, but not that much; and I know survivors of abusive homes who aren't about to start killing.