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The story depicts the changes in Taiwanese society under the influence of economic growth, particularly portraying the rapid increase of youth violence. The setting ranges from Beigang-zhen, Yunlin County, to Taipei, Wanhua District, Ximending. The simple town is compared with the bustling metropolis as a metaphor of the erosion of society and its changing values.[2]
Beigang teenagers A-guo and A-douzi spend their days fighting and causing trouble in karaoke joints, hanging around in the billiard rooms, taking drugs, and generally loafing and playing all day. Little Gao, bro Jie, their friend from Beigang, has made something of a name for himself in Taipei, and brings his girl Meimei back to Beigang. A-guo and A-douzi accidentally grab a bag with guns and drugs, and head for Taipei looking for brother Jie.
The soundtrack features ten Taiwanese, instrumental rock and ambient music songs by performers considered to be alternative or avant-garde in the Taiwanese music scene at the time. Some of the contributors to the album united in the mid-2000s for the series of Taike Rock Concerts (台客搖滾演唱會).
Popular singer Lim Giong's "A Soundless Place" (無聲的所在) performed with Hou Hsiao-hsien (the movie's producer) became a popular Taiwanese staple. Rock singer-songwriter Wu Bai who achieved immense popularity in East Asia the late 1990s and 2000s, contributed two songs including the title track under his given name of Wu Chun-lin. These songs represented Wu Bai's first major commercial music release and featured two of the three members of his band, China Blue. Fellow Taike performers Baboo contributed three songs and had backing roles on several of the others on the album. Chinese jazz saxophonist Liu Yuan also performed one of the album's songs.
For the 29th Golden Horse Awards in 1992, the soundtrack was nominated for a Golden Horse in the category of Best Original Film Music, losing to the soundtrack for Rebels of the Neon God. The song "Dust of Angels" was also nominated for the Best Original Film Song award the same year.[4]
^Sylvia Li-chun LinThe 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film 0231512813 2010 With its vivid depiction of violence and drug use, Dust of Angels was derived from the director's concern about a generation of youth from broken families in a rapidly changing rural society that is ill equipped to deal with the impact of modernization."
^ ab經典黑道電影《少年吔，安啦！》 林強和羅大佑的電影處女秀 [Classic crime film Dust of Angels features Lim Giong and Lo Ta-yu's film debut]. 聯合新聞網 (in Chinese). 3 March 2022. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 2 0826474365 John Shepherd, David Horn, Dave Laing – 2005 "Taiwan. Lim Giong, Baboo, Wu Pai, and Hou Hsiao-hsien. Siao-lien-e An-na! [Dust of Angels] (Original Soundtrack). Pony Canyon PCTA 00004.
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