Arnold with his pals lives in endless chats and antipathetic gossips all day. In the depiction of the group of teenagers who wander around the corners of the city, what Wu Liang concerns are aimlessly—he disdains to tell the relationship between people but select to seize the atmosphere and reappear temperature. In these colorful plots which seem to be the cinema scenes, Wu is like a skillful film cutter who currently grasps the color of that time, the step of life as well as the everlasting anxiety and disappointment of teenagers in Shanghai. It seems that he desires to reflect that disorderly time through this group of wandering teenagers. He means to help readers ignore all the life details reappearing in his description to feel the hidden current of time above them. 阿诺及其伙伴，整日生活在漫无边际的聊天和格格不入的闲言碎语之中。在对于这群游荡在都市缝隙中少年的摹写中，吴亮关注的目光是散漫的，他不屑于交代人物之间的勾连谱系，而是选择了捕捉气息和再现温度，在这些看似电影镜头般纷呈的段落中，吴亮却像个出色的剪辑师，精准地把握住了上海那个年代的色调、人们日常生活的步子，以及成长期少年那永远的焦灼和怅惘。他似乎是要通过这一群游散的少年，来绽现那个零乱的年代。他的深意是要读者掠过他所有再现出的生活细流，去感知那笼于其上的更加隐秘的时代洪流。