Speaking as an American who learned how to speak an syncretic version of Western Oklahoma and Eastern Oklahoma English before I attended public school and lived around small community and rural folk and having lived in the country, rural communities and small towns, where many of the students in the public schools and in college were from the very same kinds of places, I just look at things differently and speak from my own world point of view, too.
I was a full-time public school teacher in Southwestern Kansas in a very small town where most of the students lived out in the country. I was a teacher years later in SW Missouri where many of the students lived outside of the City limits. And the next school term, I was in NE Missouri where the Junior-Senior High School was literally in the country south of a town which had around 2,000 in population.
Besides working and living on farms in Oklahoma, I have also lived on a dairy in Northern California; worked in fruit orchards and vegetable farms in Oregon.
I don't consider myself to be better than anyone else. But, as an art student who studied design and composition and and also as a person who has some experience in the theatrical arts (I was a member of the players group in college and a member of the National Honorary Dramatic Fraternity - one has to be invited to join that after one has done so much work with on-campus productions, on stage and behind the scenes), I don't see why people have to explain why an artist, aka the director, Ang Lee, had to use an Asian philosophical context as a reason why he did things a certain way or why they just came out that way.
BTW, I have directed stage plays and I even designed the scene sets, too. I just created them the way I thought would look the best from the audience POV, composition and design wise, with no thought of philosophy whatsoever.
