As much as to her academic training, her success was due to her bold and questioning spirit, which breathed fresh air into the stuffy atmosphere of local film criticism at the time.
她的成功，一方面來自本身的學院修養，一方面則是勇敢的質疑精神，打破了當時國內影評沈悶的空氣。焦雄屏曾為文批評「聖戰千秋」是部「反效果的愛國片」。