Yang Kuei-mei, nominated for her fourth Golden Horse award this year, was rewarded for her performance as a single mother struggling to raise her child in the 1960s, in the face of traditional constraints and the strains on their relationship when her daughter gets a boyfriend. Yang's performance switches expertly between suppressed emotion and passionate release, and the conflicts between mother and daughter are brought to vivid and realistic life.
四度入圍金馬獎的台灣演技派演員楊貴媚，飾演民國五十年代獨力撫養女兒成長的單親媽媽，在傳統觀念的壓抑下，面對女兒交往男友的態度扭曲，心境複雜。楊貴媚從拘謹壓抑到情慾釋放之間的角色轉折層次分明，母女關係的衝突張力也有細膩表現。