Unlike the scripts of the "new wave cinema" era of the 1980s and early 1990s, which focused on documenting life in Taiwan, often telling coming-of-age stories about characters from various social groups, the younger generation is selecting largely urban topics that center around discussions of friendship, romance, and life and death.
不同於台灣新電影時期的劇本，著重在紀錄本土經驗，呈現各種族群的成長故事；年輕一代的題材選取，多以都市經驗為主，熱中於對友誼、情感、生死的探討，對政治社會議題表現得相當冷漠。就以八十四年得獎劇本瞿友寧的《從七點到七點》為例子。