In the following paragraph, the reference of "it" in the last sentence is not clear to me. Is it the "Fallen Angel" film? Its style? or "technology"?
In Fallen Angels, images accumulate as bits and pieces of a thoroughly imagined whole. We are shown: characters moving about, performing tasks, going through rituals of work and leisure and heartbreak against the backdrop of a neon-lit city at night (the underworld of Hong Kong). And while we may recognize objects or places (“that’s a subway” or “this is a fast food shop”), the style in which they are shown, treated by the camera, dislocates them from the plastic, sensate world. It evokes instead, and powerfully, compromising nothing, a state of the world known all too well by anyone who has ever had a cell phone ring during a night at the movies: time and space fractured by technology, the world mapped as an integrated circuit where everything pulses, rarely lingers, and never quiets. It renders intangible or vaporous any sustained presence in place and time, leaving to theory or chance a durable connection between two people.
