I don't talk about the director's skills and the professionalism of action design here. Ang Lee is a master at capturing the inner entanglement of human beings, from "Pushing Hands" to "Brokeback Mountain". For Ang Lee, the subject of martial arts is just a prop, or a medium, used to describe the deep-seated mountains and rivers and stormy waves.
I thought that Yu Jiaolong (played by Zhang Ziyi) was the real protagonist of this film. The eldest young lady who locks her boudoir alone is about to get married, but at the fork in her life, she has the ambition to escape from reality and devote herself to the blood of the rivers and lakes, and put it into action rebelliously. Unexpectedly, although the pampered eldest lady has a good martial arts skills, she can almost defeat all opponents except Li Mubai, but she is defeated by the most common people in the world. Whether it was the old love of youth many years ago, or the countless hidden reefs in front of me, this stubborn girl fell into an incomparable entanglement, only to find out that the real arena is not as bloody as the novel, but Instead, it showed a more cold-blooded attitude. Even Li Mubai, the famous hero of the world, unfortunately died in the end of the bad guy's poisonous needle and hidden weapon, and he couldn't escape the sad fate of cold-blooded rivers and lakes.
Yu Jiaolong recognizes Yu Xiulian (played by Michelle Yeoh) as her god sister. In fact, they are a pair of sisters who share the same disease. As women, whether in the palace or in the real arena, they are unable to withstand the cold-blooded reality. succumbed to a bland fate. Yu Xiulian is a generous person in the arena, but she never dares to break the traditional ethics; Yu Jiaolong is a savage official lady, but she has to accept the lifelong events arranged by her elders. But the reason why Yu Jiaolong is the real protagonist is that she dares to fly into the flames, burn her life with the capital of youth, and send a childish but futile counterattack to the powerful and silent destiny.
Li Mubai, as a generation of heroes, has the demeanor of an elder. He fought Yu Jiaolong with a sword in the ancient temple and scolded her: "Li Mubai is a false name, a sect is a false name, and his swordsmanship is a false name. 』 This is not only the elder's compliment to the child, but also Li Mubai's own voice - for many years, he has already looked down upon and seen through the reality of all things. Just a concept. Yu Jiaolong desperately competed for the Qingming sword used by Li Mubai, but in fact she was just chasing an excuse to deceive life and escape reality. After the Battle of the Bamboo Forest, Li Mubai threw the Qingming Sword into the water just to remind Yu Jiaolong that he must let go of the vainness of life in order to gain true freedom. It's a pity that Yu Jiaolong at that time was still obsessed with taking the Qingming Sword as a life-saving straw, and desperately went into the water to search for the sword, and then gradually brought the whole story slowly to the end of the difficult situation that could not be escaped.
Li Mubai was murdered by the blue-eyed fox. Before his death, he said to Yu Xiulian with his last strength: "What we can touch is not forever. Master said over and over again, hold your hand tightly, there is nothing in it, let go of your hand, you have everything. ’ This is a tact that is close to Zen Buddhism, but it is used here to wake up the audience: At the final moment of the story, even the existence of life itself is a kind of falsehood, which can be abandoned, must be abandoned, and even forced to be abandoned. Abandoned thing.
Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" did not achieve the best martial arts action design, but it created a martial arts humanistic temperament that no one has surpassed in the past ten years. Li An spent ten years at home before finally achieving his achievements at that time, and he should be able to have no complaints and no regrets.
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