There’s nothing better than a good Hong Kong video that our friends can share ad nauseam in a social media circle jerk celebrating the beauty of the city we live in.
“The Allegory of the Cave”, by local production company Visual Suspect, showcases Hong Kong’s shining cityscapes… but not as you know them.
It opens with the tops of iconic skyscrapers like Two IFC, The Center, and Central Plaza reflected to form self-contained shapes that spin slowly and serenely in front of billowing clouds.
The film is named after Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, a story about prisoners chained in a cave whose only sense of reality comes from a series of shadows they see projected onto a blank wall.
Besides the allegory, Visual Suspect’s interest in modern quantum physics and multiverse theories is evident in the delightfully perplexing video. Paired with composer Dexter Britain’s urgent, glittering instrumentals, the kaleidoscopic visuals are bending our minds in the best way possible.
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