The father of P4 is a civil servant, and his mother is a substitute teacher, who belongs to the low public salary class; Chinese teachers, Uncle Xiaoming, and Wang Gou are mostly humble common people; and only Ma Sling is the most profitable of these people.
The film records the life style of young people at that time, the pressure of entering school, the lack of information and transportation in the early 1960s, the lack of material, and the white terror deprived adults of the freedom of expression of opinions. The military training on campus regulated the behavior of young people, and the air seemed to permeate forever. With a certain depressed atmosphere.
The young generation of curious and empty souls has no lofty ideals. They grow up lonely, dating in the Ximending Cinema, soaking in the ice cream room, and playing marbles. That is, the individual is in a state of chaos, only seeing the multicultural conflicts of different regions and provinces. In terms of adults, basically the angry and helpless father role and the fate and helpless mother role are presented very clearly. The
film uses other people’s words to narrate the appearance of others, to set off tasks, and to use long and wide-angle lenses to reflect the more at that time. More overall social environment. At the beginning of the 1960s, it happened that a large number of people transferred from outside to Taiwan. The cultural conflict and interference brought about by this influx of people had a profound impact in that era.
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