Although it was written by a mainland playwright as a political critique and Lu made a deep impression on viewers by showing her character's stubborn resistance to the hand she was dealt in life, the film's promotion and the media focused on one scene of Lu cutting her breasts.
雖然那是一部大陸劇作家批判政治的電影，陸小芬在其中一些倔強、反抗命運的演出都有十分深刻的表現，然而卻因其中一場拿刀刺胸的戲，被片商及媒體大肆宣傳。