Tarng observes that to make such a story shallower and simpler so that it is accessible to foreign audiences, who have to start from scratch in understanding it, and yet still enable people to see the depth of cultural history bound up with it, is an impossible task.
唐智超指出，對於必須從零開始去了解這部影片的外國人來說，又要淺顯單純化，又要從中看出文化歷史深度，是不可能的任務。