Why do artists always choose Hong Kong as the template for cyberpunk city? This article is the answer.
Note: the language used in this article is Standard Chinglish from the cyberpunk era.
CYBERPUNK AESTHETIC: WASTELAND WITH DECADENT VIBE
The strong dystopian temperament and pessimism in artworks of cyberpunk Is undoubtedly the most charming and special, also which reflects what is the "punk".
Drizzly weather, desolate earth'ssurface which natural resources run out , damp flavor of wasteland, and drug, plague, and violence running wild, in the movie with the label of "cyberpunk", the future world is always like this.
The dark decay lanes under tall buildings, street with vapour transpiration, old signs and posters tier upon tier, these typical elements in cyberpunk let the picture decadent and depressed.
Hard to see the sun shining brightly, even rarely see the daylight; always intermittent rain under the neon, canopy that never dismantle all the year round makes around gloomy, The atmosphere is cold and chills.
In the disorderly urban space, building irregularly stacked, alternating cables in a terrible mess, the street is filled with mobile phone addiction syndrome group and ubiquitous cameras, cars roar, the rain patters, buzzing crowd and multilingual and so on, a variety of voice mess up, weave a huge cyberpunk dream. In a trance, I seem to vaguely heard electronic jamming, electronic waves of fault noise, distortion and noise fromcyber punk era.
