The movie critic Li Yu-hsin thought that the importance of this film in material, form and content exceeded that of the films of Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien: "It found and created new possibilities for Taiwanese Film."
影評人李幼新就認為這部電影的重要性在於，題材上、形式上、內容上都擺脫了侯孝賢和楊德昌，「為台灣電影找尋並開創另一種新的可能性」，他說。