"What we read in the histories recorded in textbooks seems a bit at odds with what the old people tell me," says Liu. "When I was filming the tattooed elders, I not only asked them about the tattoos, but also about their general situation in the past. Did they drink? What were relations like between the sexes?
劉康文常想，過去泰雅族的文化難道是這樣不堪一擊，「我們所讀到的教科書中的歷史，跟我從老人家口中聽到的，似乎有些不同」，劉康文說，「我拍文面老人，不僅問他們文面的事情，也問他們過去的生活狀況，喝不喝酒，男女關係怎樣？