I found this review of Taipei to be similar to Hemmingway’s The Sun Also Rises. The casual indifference of the characters toward eachother while living in a world where they are unchallenged and taken care of by inheritance or parents.

It’s a unique type of person and scene until you run into it in real life. The connecting insight between Hemingway and Taipei to me is that this scene has actually be around for 100+ years. Kids with trust funds who travel to hip places, drink and do the latest drugs, have a thrill, but never invest in themselves, eachother, or a future.

They just wander aimlessly, seeking pleasure in a world that won’t kill them off, but won’t help them along the path to growing up either. They inhabit a thin envelope of a superficial universe that not happens to play well you YouTube.

It’s a sort of profound thing… man. Or not.