After In Our Time(1982), which served as a prelude, a group of young directors, encouraging and influencing one another, created the turbulent movement which is the Taiwanese New Wave. They began to make films with their own stories, films that were fresh, innovative. But with the collapse of commercial movies and the poor circumstances of Taiwanese cinema, the New Wave cinema [“can,” meaning now, at this moment, or “could” meaning at some time in the past?] no longer escape a crisis. Now we ask what history the New Wave Cinema inscribes, reeling between the uncertain mood of society and Taiwan′s political reality; between the ideal and the real; between suppression and rage? (Hsiao Chu-chen)