"Always drawn to opposites, [Ang] Lee 
balances the film's grasp of 
the fleeting with reminders of nature's patterns and eternal rhythms. 
There's an austere, almost abstract beauty to 
the horizontal tree line; the verticality of tall, thin pines; and 
the flock of sheep heading downhill like a water droplet. And 
the campsite 
the two men retreat to is an uncommon thing in film: a believable paradise."
=aside= SandyThanks.