Leaving films aside for the moment, Godot Theater Company director James Chi-ming Liang describes his own path toward realist theater after accumulating a sufficient amount of self-awareness as "water boiling." This type of trend in theater is similar to that in film making.
電影之外，果陀劇場導演梁志民以「水燒開了」來形容這種累積了對自己足夠的認識後，自然走到反映現實的必然趨勢，這種趨勢劇場與電影相同。