蘇偉貞的小說一直在為女性的處境找想法，也為女性的世界找出口，在《魔術時刻》書中，她一篇一篇道出女性自我認同的掙扎，其中〈以上情節 ……〉這篇，蘇偉貞將小說重點放在人物的內心體驗，注重女性生命體驗的深層敍述。由於電影語言常令讀者跌撞在虛實之間，蘇偉貞將書寫的架構藏在電影鏡頭的內外，蘇偉貞自己與小說中的主要人物（寶聖）都學會套用電影的語言，來展現虛構與真實的一體兩面，可以同時存在的弔詭。寶聖在電影中所見的鏡中像成為一種託喻，寶聖執著成癡，認為經過重複的虛構，真實才會更真實。到底小說的終極關懷是什麼？筆者以為，應是現代女性將如何面對人生真相與假象反覆呈現的生命情境。至於小說中所論及的幻想與真實之間的關係，本文借用法國精神分析學家拉岡的「鏡像階段」理論來理解。

The novels written by Su are constantly searching a relief for current status of the role of being a female; meanwhile looking for the exit for the unequaled world. In the book of The Magical Moment, chapter by chapter, she conveys the struggle in the self identification of women. In particular, in The Episode Above, she focuses on the interior of characters and emphasizes the life experience unaware. Audiences are often confused among the reality and fiction in a movie. Therefore, the writing in The Episode Above follows the structure of how movies transform reality into a fiction: the story teller and the main character in the novel (Bao-Sheng) applies the lines from movies to express the idea that life itself is not so different from fiction; and neither is more of a reality than other. The made-up stories that Bao-Sheng encountered in movies became the support of her life. The madness toward fictions drives her to feel realness through the process of continuous imagination. Throughout her life, Bao-Sheng failed to distinct real life from fictitious stories in movies. This situation is caused by her mother, who led her into the dimension of fictitious movies under the expectation that her emotion can have a mainstay. Tragically, the stories in movies turned out to be unhelpful to daily life. What is the theme of this novel? In my opinion, it reveals the difficulty to modern female in the attempt of striking a balance between our own imagination and the reality. As for the relationship between imagination and reality mentioned again and again throughout this novel, our strategy is to interpret them according to the theory of “the mirror stage” proposed by famous French Psychologist Jacques Lacan.