After getting married, Lin concentrated on writing scripts. He started talking more with his father. Sometimes his father would go to Lin's apartment in Hsintien and borrow books to take home and read. "One afternoon," Lin recalls, "my father was suddenly moved to say, 'I never thought movies would save my son's life and allow him to become a man.'
結婚之後，林正盛專心寫劇本，他也和父親越來越有話說，有時父親會來到林正盛新店的住處拿幾本書回去看，「有天下午，父親突然有感而發的對我說：『想不到電影會救我兒子一條命，讓他活過來，像個人！』