Whether speaking of Ah-tang's documentaries of the 1980s, which strove for fairness and social justice; or the idealism of his "river trilogy"; or the native flavor and redemption of his "tribal trilogy"; or the striving of the characters in The Passage and Blue Cha Cha to overcome life's obstacles, the people in Cheng's works are always striving to fulfill some kind of dream.
而無論是阿堂 80 年代社運紀錄片訴求的公理正義、「河流三部曲」的理想主義、「部落三部曲」的原鄉與救贖，或是《經過》與《深海》裡，角色們努力想要掙脫的生命困局，鄭文堂作品裡的人們，似乎總在尋找某個夢想。