By the time he'd read halfway through the script, though, he got it--his last three Chinese-language films had all had themes of struggle between "sense" and "sensibility." These two, he thought, were the unwritten common elements of Eastern and Western cultures, and in a flash he grasped the essence of Jane Austen's novel. A long, difficult path
等劇本看到一半，李安明白，他之前 3 部華語片的劇中人物，一直都在「理性」與「感性」之間掙扎；這兩個元素也是東西文化生活的共同暗流，他彷彿一下就洞穿了珍・奧斯汀的小說筆觸。