Yi is not like her.
Hong is very, very circular.
Some people have a hip look, some have a professional look, and some just seem to have a creepy look.
Now to come from this world and enter a completely new alien world, that immediately for me, personally, it jumped out as weirdly exciting.
What makes this one unique is the specifics, namely the Japanese occupation of China, which is a topic not often explored in film so far as I know.
There is nothing wrong with interracial or intercultural marriages.
Ang Lee's wartime thriller plays out in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and focuses on the trials of a virginal student who is ordered to seduce and then assassinate a Japanese collaborator.
I'm glad that Lee decided to try to bring more attention to it.