It doesn't hurt that Kate Winslet played both Marianne and Ophelia, and when I see her in either role, I get echos of the other.

But even before Kate played Ophelia, I thought that Emma Thompson's rendering of Willoughby's and Marianne's love in the statement "I've always preferred wildflowers" spoke about the connection between the fragility of wildflowers when pulled out of their natural element, and the fragility of what those two felt about each other having grown in a natural environment where things like money and social responsibilities didn't matter much at all.