Ang Lee has eyes of a stranger when it comes to making a movie about his own country. The same went true to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And his themes are always spinning around the love like Brokeback Mountain.
This time he shows what love is all about using tiny little bit of historical facts but his intention doesn't have any relation with the history itself. It's just a means to an end. His intention was expressed by some subtleties like the expression of Tony Leung and of Wei Tang especially through their flirtation and love-making. But the problem is that those erotic scenes was prolonged too much and sometimes out of focus. Another problem was so simple patriotism, specifically around the theater. It was simplistic approach to his own history. That's why I think that his movies about Asia are made in the eyes of westerners.
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