While some felt she had enough footage already--it had been gathered over a year's time--to tell the story of the society, Lee still felt that the work was not finished. She felt that the oral histories she had taken of veteran troupe members carried nostalgic longing but did not address the underlying causes for the troupe's rise and decline.
雖然許多人都認為李香秀花一年時間所拍攝的拱樂社，已經能勾勒出一個大概了，但她仍覺不完整，因為資深退休演員的口述歷史雖然豐富動人，但只帶出懷舊的情殤，卻沒有記錄到戲曲本身興衰的樣貌。