By turning his camera on his characters’ individuality, Wong Kar-Wai is reminding we the audience of their and indeed our own subjectivity, a perspective further reinforced by the dreamlike, otherworldly visual aesthetic the director adopts.
There will never be another like Bruce Lee, and there can’t be, his singularity can never be replicated, it can only be appreciated for the totality of experience it was, and at best, learned from.