Dealing with the two hours on the eve of a theater closing, the film can be seen as a hymn to old-style cinemas. The film begins with the last screening in an old 1000-seat theater, soon to be replaced by a new multiplex. Significantly; the film screened is King Hu′s Dragon Inn. Seated in this old theater rs a distinctive audience. Among them are old forgotten actors Miao Tien and Shih Chun who both starred in Dragon Inn, to whom Tsai Ming-liang shows his respect and sympathy. Unlike Cinema Paradiso, which shows beautiful and nostalgic memories of old cinemas, Goodbye Dragon Inn depicts the shabby old theater as a place for the alienated. Capturing every comer of this theater, the director portrays unique and hidden stories, like the story of the impossible relationship between a box office girl and a projectionist, and that of the ghosts haunting the old theater. Tsai Ming-Jiang himself appears in the film as one of the audience who misses the memories of this theater. (Kim Ji-seok)