It is, however, an incontrovertible fact that the audience for Taiwanese films has dwindled in last few years. What can account for the contrast between the positive reception for Taiwanese movies at festivals in Nantes, Cannes, Venice and Berlin, and the parlous state of the market for domestic films in Taiwan today, along with the cries of "cinema is dead!"?
然而，台灣電影近年來在市場上的不景氣確也是不爭的事實，那麼，從南特、坎城、威尼斯、柏林影展對台灣電影的肯定到國片市場哀鴻遍野的「電影已死」之喟嘆，又該怎麼解釋呢？