Chiu Juo-lung, seeing that the people in the film had five to seven stripes painted on their faces, pointed out that the main characters in the first half were members of the Balanshe tribe of the Atayal of Taitung.
邱若龍觀察影中人臉上五到七道的黔面，指出前半段影片的主角是台中巴蘭社的泰雅族人。