You may or may not like the movie as much as I do, but here are a few observations, and predictions re your response: one, while the main drift of the story is unsurprising, the move is far from totally predictable; two, as in movies greater than this one, there are here many "unnecessary" elaborations and details that pay tribute to the complexity
Ang Lee accurately captures the essence of ‘sense’ and ‘sensibility’ and incarnates them in two of the most distinctive female characters created by Jane Austen. Again, this film is an exemplar of artistic unification of aesthetics and subject matter. @ Broadway Mystery Film (Dec, 2019)