Wang Chih-cheng regarded Kuo Cheng's UFO Diary as one of the scripts most deserving to be filmed of those winning awards in 1996. Kuo Cheng had his fingers on the pulse of the times in writing about the high tide of emigration that took place as the result of a best-selling book predicting a mainland invasion during the extra lunar "leap month" of 1996.
郭箏的《匪諜周報》被王志成認為是八十五年度的劇本中，最值得拍攝的作品之一。郭箏捉住了時代的脈動，針對「一九九五閏八月」一書引發一陣奇怪的社會移民潮所寫。