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| IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 out of 103,170 votes |
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” Movie Review
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Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman’s daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life. add synopsis
Breathtakingly Beautiful…
As a film student living in Toronto, I look forward to the Toronto International Film Festival every year. Last year, the highlight of the festival for me was American Beauty. This year, it would have to be (so far) Ang Lee’s ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’.Being of Asian descent, I’ve seen my share of wu xia genre movies to last me a life time. However, most of them are so centred on the fighting, that they forget the rest of the elements that are involed. The movie turns into one long scripted fighting scene with maybe a slight hint of story. Crouching Tiger, on the other hand realizes these issues, and builds these oh-so entertaining action sequences into an epic with typical asian themes such as true love and honour
Being an epic, one would expect the usual long takes and establishing shots, and boy does it ever look beautiful. Traversing through a myriad of regions spanning the lengh of China (from the deserts to bamboo forests, to mountains high in the clouds), the film soley based on its asthetic properties is nothing short of stunning. The lighting of different landscapes and the exquisitly designed costumes all radiate with stunning colour. And then there’s the cinemetography. Wow! The backdrops, establishing shots look absolutely marvelous. If your jaw dropped when you saw Rome and its coliseum in Gladiator, wait until you see ancient Beijing recreated on the screen!Okay, so it’s a good looking movie. What about the story? The complexity of the plot is rather sparse, probably reminiscent of epics such as Braveheart or Gladiator, which is by no means a bad thing. Although both Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeo did have major parts, this movie belongs mostly to Zhang Ziyi who IMHO did an amazing job playing a very complex role (one which required her to represent nobily as a princess, naivness, as well as show inner strength). Mainly concentrating on her unwillingness to give in to the ideals of an arranged marriage, the decently written script adds a story of an old warrior trying to retire and a 300+ year old sword
All in all, this film blends story, well choreographed action, and a stylistic eye to create a mythilogical piece that not only represents the wu xia genre justly by doing it well, but also contributes to raising the quality of filmmaking usually applied in the making of a similar type of film.
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A great movie that changed my view…
on how I view other movies. This movie was so fresh and exciting that it made me look at the Asian cinema scene a little closer. The story alone is great. It is simple and very different from what I am used to here in the States. Visually it was one of the best movies I have ever scene. From the effects matching the tone of the movie, to the locations and the colors used in those locales. The fight scenes were very cool. I love good fight scenes and I love swords. This movie pulls off both very nicely. Since I have watched this movie, I have watched many other Asian films and I find them refreshing. The movies are more story driven with a heavy emphasis on tones. I might watch this movie this weekend now that I am thinking of it. Really cool movie especially on a rainy night.
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Love is the key
This film is a love story
If you have trouble understanding love you may not like it. I love this movie because it delineates the sacrifice characterising selfless love and all the steps between that make such divinity a necessary step to giving meaning to the brief flicker of life we are so fortunate to know. (Even if it appears to be punctuated by long stretches of boredom, waiting in line for tickets, finding the damn car in a lot the size of Kansas etc).
Forget the ‘martial arts’. I’m proficient in Tai’ Chi a discipline based on turning the agressors energy against them; this film has some elements of that but too few to be noteworthy. If you want impossible kicks, retributive gratification and/or worthless one-liners to build the ego, you can find them in spades amongst the hundreds of pulp movies in that genre
To compare this to those is to miss the point by several miles
This movie will emphasise the reason humans _can_ be so beautiful, and serves to underline our need for continuous development. Ideals and ego are ephemera that can be discarded; life and love are eternal
Embrace this concept or sink.
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