‘Today i begin to understand what love must be,if it exists,when we are aparted we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves.we are incomplete.Like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost.This is what i imagine love to be.Incompleteness in absence.’
In an interview, Li Yu emphasized that one of her objectives was to show that lesbians are not the “other,” and their love is not otherness. This is why she kept the two characters and their love ordinary, even cliche.