Just like the young people in Hou Hsiao-hsien's film The Boys From Feng-Kuei, when Chen was 19 he didn't know what he wanted to do with his life. He came from Taichung to Taipei to attend English classes, but his purpose was not to pass the university entrance exams.
就像侯孝賢電影《風櫃來的人》劇中青少年對未來的茫然，十九歲那年，不知道要做什麼的陳國富，從台中上台北補習英文。