What's more, notes Little Yeh, "The suffering of his motherland, and the difficult process of his rootless floating while working and studying have continued to affect the innermost feelings of his creations whether they are visible or not; he can't escape them, and he doesn't want to cast them off."
此外，「苦難的母土，漂浮不定半工半讀的艱辛歷程，一直是吳念真創作時如影隨形的情愫，他甩不掉這些，也不想遺忘這些」，小野說。