I got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love of the moment, and the wish to prolong and enhance it; Sebastian drank to escape. As we together grew older and more serious I drank less, he more.
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.