Yesterday I finished my “In the Mood for Love” series, coming on the heels of wrapping up “Mirror” the week before. I think it’s interesting how “Mirror” led me to write longer essays, but fewer of them — while “In the Mood for Love” almost demanded that it take it in smaller chunks than I usually do.

I’ve floated moving on to Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” next and I still might, but I’m hesitant to do so only because the movie has a lot of plot and a lot of characters and I worry that my approach might get muddied up just trying to keep up with it all. Complexity is all over Yang’s body of work — even though none of his seven movies are alike in any other way.

I might have to invent a way to tackle Yang before I start the writing project.

Right now, I have two things on my mind — flying down to South Florida for a long weekend tomorrow, where I’ll spend time with three Trump supporters. That would make me uneasy in normal circumstances, but this week has been especially nuts.

But that brings me to the other thing on my mind … the complete insanity of our President. I don’t think I even need to elaborate at this point. The fact that people are defending his positions — if you can even call them that — just proves that people really don’t have an idea what they want, they’re just waiting for someone else to tell them so they don’t have to think about it.

That’s an explicit message of Edward Yang’s 1996 comedy “Mahjong,” by the way, so maybe I could take on that movie next.

Oh, that reminds me, I found a box set of Yang’s movies on BluRay on eBay today … they’re coming from China, but are non-region BluRays and have English subtitles. They also include the very hard to find “In Our Time” anthology film (which includes a 35 minute Yang segment) that began his career.

But for some reason, “Mahjong” was not included in the collection … I’m trying to think if there was something anti-China in that film’s message that might have kept it out of the collection.

If so, that would create an interesting challenge for all of my China-based “followers” out there … who I presume aren’t really from China at all, they are just internet ghosts, taking up Chinese addresses to cloak their real location.

The world doesn’t make sense anymore and we need to trying to make sense of it.