Hong Kong director Stanley Kuan echoes this sentiment, saying that many films by Taiwanese directors tackling cultural identity and critiquing the status quo could never have been made in Hong Kong, perhaps because of distortions effected by the colonial education, or due to political or commercial considerations.
香港導演關錦鵬也呼應這種說法，認為香港或許因為以往殖民地教育的扭曲，或者由於政治或商業考量，台灣導演的許多處理文化認同及批判現狀的作品，香港就做不出來。