A Post-Modern View?

I watched a TV interview with a Taiwanese film director tonight. He explained why he refused to cut a scene at the end of one of his films, a scene in which a woman cries for seven minutes. He said his films were about emotion, because emotion is what connects us with our real selves. The next bit I remember verbatim:

‘In spite of all the modern desire for material things, people are still full of tenderness. They’re not stones, but they need to be reminded that they’re becoming stones.’