Do you have anything in common? No. Is she intelligent? No. Then she understand you? No. Then the only thing she can give you is sex. The only unbearable thing is nothing is unbearable.
The director talked of his own issues in the interview, ‘I was always encouraged to speak English. And it’s easy to me to fit in. I didn’t think of I’m an Australian. But I didn’t think of I’m a Chinese. I’m just a kind of the other.’