The production and release of [Seediq Bale] may prove to be a significant turning point for the Taiwanese film industry. With a budget of 600 million yuan,the film has the highest budget in the history of Taiwanese film. [Seediq Bale] is Wei Te-Sheng’s dream project, finally completed after numerous complications, the least of which were a script that was rewritten more than 10 times in 12 years, and re-creating the Ushe streets of the 1930s on 3,600 square meters of fields in the Linco region at a cost of an estimated 80 million yuan. Wei also commissioned Korean and Japanese special effects experts to enhance the film’s visuals. Certain subjects are generally avoided in Taiwanese cinema: the 228 Massacre, the White Terror under the Kuomintang Government, and the lives of the marginalized aboriginal people. [Seediq Bale] challenges another taboo topic; the Ushe Incident, something rarely openly discussed. Regardless of reviews and the box office figures, [Seediq Bale] is sure to remain a very important film in the history of the Taiwanese film industry. (KIM Ji-seok)