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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
I thought this was the kind of movie where anything you
say about it will
give too much of it away, so if you havenıt seen it and
donıt want to know
how it ends, you might not want to read my review.
Most reviews that I read about this movie said that it
was a story about Shu
Lien (Michelle Yeoh) and Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) and their
quest to recover
a sword called the Green Destiny, but I thought it was
really about the
girl, Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi), and - okay, I wanted to
say something really
deep and insightful about the overarching theme of the
movie, but Iım not an
English major. Anyway, the point is that unlike other
Kung Fu movies this
one is actually ABOUT something. (The moral of the story
is: Donıt fall in
love with a Mongol. )
There were 3 major fight scenes in this movie and a bunch
of other ones.
The first one is mostly between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang
Ziyi and takes place
at night inside a courtyard. It kind of felt like a scene
from a
Playstation game. The third one is also mostly between
Michelle Yeoh and
Zhang Ziyi and takes place inside Michelle Yeohıs house.
This sword, the
Green Destiny, is the kind of sword that in the right hands
can slice
through anything, and boy does Zhang Ziyi take advantage
of that (it has
zero point control though). She keeps slicing through
whatever weapon
Michelle Yeoh is using on her. Stone floors get smashed
to smithereens.
Zhang Ziyi flies off at the end to fight Chow Yun Fat in
the treetops. The
second fight scene is, like, the best scene of the whole
movie. Zhang Ziyi
lays waste to an entire restaurant full of thugs as the
Invincible Sword
Goddess.
I saw this movie twice. The first time I saw it I got
to the ending and
thought, Huh? What kind of an ending is that?. The
second time I saw it,
the ending made a lot more sense and I was totally bawling.
I had to
apologise to Owen for crying at the end of a Kung Fu movie,
but like I said,
this isnıt just any Kung Fu movie, it actually has like
a plot and
characters and motivations and stuff. It was a lot better
than Gladiator.
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