Director Stanley Kwan cut certain inflammatory portions of the original work, employing a plain narrative style to tell the story in a matter-of-fact way. In the absence of the exhibitionist language seen in earlier works of Kwan's, Wen Tien-hsiang qualifies the final version as "accessible without being low-brow."
導演關錦鵬刪去原著部分煽情枝節，平鋪直敘地將故事娓娓道來，不見過去作品中炫技的電影語言，「通俗而不流俗」是影評人聞天祥的評語。