According to Tseng Ya-lan, an art critic who is intimately familiar with Dong's career, Dong made The Embarrassment of Going Home on a shoestring budget, and he had to deal with myriad restrictions imposed by the martial law authorities. As a result, the footage obtained while working on that documentary later got used in several other films.
深入了解董振良電影生涯的藝評人曾亞蘭說，董振良資金不夠，加上在軍事管制下拍攝金門影像受到重重限制，常常一次出機所拍的片子會多次使用。