天梯是蔡試圖消解藝術與政治、商業矛盾的嚐試，隻有親情和鄉愁可以跨越之間的藩籬。作為紀錄片顯得主觀性太強，更適合做一部傳記電影。

致敬《終結者》的沒落家族女仆和致敬《英雄本色》周潤發的張先生令人印象深刻。 許多有趣的曆史與政治時局梗（以及高倉健），然而主要角色塑造的台詞實在太多太密集，嚴重影響觀感。人物的裝逼太刻意以至於覺得冗長與低級。 “每個人的腳裸都深陷於淤泥之中啊。”

我倒是看著沒什麽意思，不知道有什麽感動的

適合秋冬微涼寒冷時看的溫暖人心的父子之情的緩緩流動~

kept all those things,"give me a sense of knowing who I was then who I became who I am now, give me a sense of time and a sense of one's own history so to speak", I should learn to and get comfortable/easy to keep those things important to me from time to time she's still youthful and optimistic at the age of 92 from her son's eye, what a legend