Waiting Alone focuses on Chen Wen (Yu Xia), the owner of an antique shop, and depicts the images of a group of urban youths such as Liu Rong (Li Bingbing), Jing Li (Gong Beibi), Du Haitao, Zhao and "grandson". Through some "literary" attributes of their identities-actors, college students, recording assistants, guitarists, vendors selling cam-we can almost conclude that this is a familiar crowd that Wu Shixian comes into daily contact with. They have passed the age of "pretending to be gangsters", but they are not married yet; They basically don't have to contact with the previous generation and don't have to bear too much social responsibility; They look well-fed (but not rich), dressed in casual fashion, and often haunt bars, dance halls and other fashion consumption places in droves. Obviously, this is different from the young people oppressed by reality in Taipei 2 1-they not only have to worry about their houses all day, but also worry about their precarious jobs and incomes, and repair emotional cracks for broken families in the process of modernization. Comparing the two, it's not hard to find that Taibei 2 1 follows the usual bottom realism of Taiwan Province movies, while Waiting Alone is aimed at a group of young people who have no mental and material burden, and takes the middle-class petty bourgeoisie route with certain escape color; Therefore, the former is relatively heavy and depressing, while the latter is a little more cynical and playful. In order to keep consistent with the attitude of middle class life believed in this film, Wu Shixian inevitably incorporates a lot of fashion symbols and popular elements, including tactfully arranging a large number of star guest appearances including Chow Yun Fat (best of all, Yu Xia's narration at the end of the film says, "Will the next person who walks in the door be my future partner?" At this time, Yolanda entered the antique shop, and the audience familiar with gossip news should know their love relationship), parody and good-natured ridicule of classic movie fragments such as FACE/OFF, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wu Shixian imitated Nicolas Cage, and Li Bingbing's dress on the set resembled Xiulian's style), interspersed with SHE's superstar, Xu Wei's blue lotus flower and Yu Quan's running, Wu Shixian's pleasure lies in making the "faceless man" in Chen Wen's horror novels many times. Judging from the overall narrative effect of the film, the film has a skillful and fluent melodrama technique that is rare in domestic films. The story goes forward in an orderly way, the mirror image is clear and neat, the audio and video editing is skillful and ingenious, and the transition and a large number of seemingly disorderly flashbacks can just convey the meaning and echo the plot. It can be said that MTV-style lively and pleasant rhythm moves inside and outside the camera. All the above have eliminated the decadence and dullness of similar themes, and produced the relaxed interest and middle-class sentiment of UFO films in Hong Kong, which made the films full of youthful dynamic and relaxed atmosphere from beginning to end, thus ensuring the audience to go through the whole viewing process more comfortably and carefree.