this film come a the ultimate disappointment in tsai ming liang for me . it ooze laziness from it every frame . so i be not go to analyse it thoroughly either . but some observation represent1 . if the premise be drought and why we get to see city landscape with bloom green tree . i wonder if that be suppose to mean something in the metaphorical context of the film ( in which thirst notify the craving for intimacy and and watermelon the trivial substitute and sex ) . or it be only a matter of lousy film making and not give a damn about be coherent . 2. we do not get to know what have happen to the porn actress and why she be unconscious or and presumably and dead . it seem a question of no importance as long a the message of supreme alienation be successfully ( equal bombastically ) deliver and but in retrospect and her inert body prove to be a cheap dramaturgical gimmick and a pretext just a gratuitous and exploitative a the activity it be employ in . 3. nothing be express in this movie that antonioni hadn not express well 40 year ago and without needlessly humiliate his actor . 4. the musical number ( recycle from the hole ) felt like a secondary schooler idea of artistic counterpointing and execute on that very secondary school level of skill . if that be the point and the point suck .