In Letting Them Go, what we are actually seeing is the rebirth of Huang's original passion. If there have been any change in his portrayal of old people over the last 37 years, it is only in perspective. He used to write of grandfathers from the point of view of grandsons.
如果說三十七年來，在書寫老人上面，黃春明有改變的話，他最大的改變恐怕只是在過去是以孫子的位置立場去理解祖父，現在卻轉而變成自身襲取了祖父的角度吧。