This is a film in which a variety of media arts are deftly incorporated with the help of delicate film shooting skills. Through the director’s exquisite manipulation of the camera, youngsters’ arduous struggle in the urban jungle is broadly presented. The fictional protagonist, Li Jia-Rong, actually lives in a society rife with malicious traps and formidable challenges. What’s more, his myth on self-cognition during his struggle reveals how modern citizens seek for the norms of behavior as they are learning from trials and errors in the social environment.
Fictional as the film is, self-reflection is easily provoked from the main character as well as the audience when the young man starts to consider different aspects of life. Even during a recession when school kids can barely afford their lunch box, some people who cling firmly to the myth are still obsessed with their ideals as if they were excluded from the society. However, their course of life can hardly be erased out of the mirror of the society.
With mesmerizing visual effects, the film is produced as a satire on the social phenomena. The interpersonal and social problems we see on the urban youth and the splendid images are not eye-catching but prompt the audience to ponder on the relationship between individuals and the society.