Adopting the form of Ah-de’s subjective viewpoint, the film is a complex reflection on the meaning of politics, social movement, memory, and life itself.
Ma Le (played by Chang Chen-yue), an aboriginal youth who left his hometown to work in Taipei, was a construction worker.
On the night he committed the crime, Ma Le happened to take Ah-de’s taxi and left a one thousand NT dollar bill stained with blood.
The story of the aboriginal worker in the film is often linked to the ''Tang Ying-sheng incident” (湯英伸事件) that shocked the society in 1986, a tragedy about a Tsou youth who killed the whole family of his employer because he was mistreated and had to work long hours.
A lot of video tapes which recorded the social movements around the time the martial law was lifted in 1987 were also put into the film, shedding light on Taiwan’s political history.
The word “super (超級)” appears in the Chinese title of these three of the films, and the director Wan Jen had said that it was used to convey a sarcastic attitude.
[9] The other mistake is that when Pairang Pavavaljung died in 2023, several news articles stated that he won the Best Music Award at 2000 Asia Pacific Film Festival.
The correct information should be that Pailang won the award at 1998 Asia Pacific Film Festival together with Fan Tsung-pei for the music of Connection by Fate.