Now I find that this film can be compared with the recent "Grandmaster". After watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I decided to start hating The Grandmaster all over again. One is that the words are full and the meaning is endless, the other is that you deliberately do not finish the words and let you guess, anyway, the audience will forgive you no matter how you cut it. To tolerate Wong Kar-wai fooling the audience with messiness and narcissism is too unfair to a neat director like Ang Lee. The film should be allowed to speak for itself, so why should the audience have to do their homework? Is it possible to ignore the "form" completely by focusing only on the "meaning"? Either all the scenes between Zhao Benshan and Zhang Zhen should be cut, or please explain it a little more clearly?
Back to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This film may also be called "How to Train the Dragon". Both Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian wanted to tame Yu Jiaolong, but they were both dead and injured in the end. My understanding is that not only Qing Mingjian is equivalent to the tiger in the youth pie, but also the character Yu Jiaolong. Li Mubai said, "The human heart is also a crouching tiger, hiding a dragon." Yu Jiaolong stole his sword, but his heart was not settled. He tamed Yu Jiaolong, which was actually the process of taming his own heart.
The ending Yu Jiaolong jumping off the cliff, together with the death of Li Mubai, may be to show that Li Mubai's self-taming has failed. The movie seems to be depressing, but Yu Xiulian talks about some traditional etiquette, but in fact, the focus is completely on Yu Jiaolong's liberation. So Yu Xiulian finally said to Yu Jiaolong that she hoped she could face herself sincerely in the future.
Whoever wants to tame himself away from danger and follow the world is sometimes the most dangerous.
Yu Xiulian, who is walking in the rivers and lakes, has many fetters in her heart, while the daughter of Jade Jiaolong in the deep boudoir courtyard is unruly and fearless. This contrast is very interesting.
Luo Xiaohu rushed from Xinjiang to Beijing to see Yu Jiaolong, but Yu Jiaolong was icy cold. I didn't understand the reaction. Maybe Yu Jiaolong doesn't love Luo Xiaohu at all, her heart is too big.
Although the lines are too westernized, but fortunately there is something in the words, for example, Yu Jiaolong said to the blue-eyed fox: "You gave me a dream, but one day, I found that I could defeat you, you don't know how much I feel in my heart. I'm afraid, I can't see the edge of heaven and earth, I don't know where to go, who can I follow?" She explained her psychological motivation very well. And things like "If you keep thinking about it, there will be echoes" in "The Grand Master", it seems to say a lot, but it seems to say nothing at all. I hate this kind of tone the most.
Zhang Ziyi's performance in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is still remarkable, especially the fierceness. However, sometimes it is too tight. If there is a proper expression of agility and stretching, the character should be more three-dimensional.
As for Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh's lame Mandarin, as well as the blunt exaggeration of some action scenes, it's actually not that hard to accept.
The scene in Bamboo Forest, I only saw the clip before, but now I watch it with the beginning and the end, the mood is really great. What is "the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop"? This is! How to make the environment a projection of the character's heart? Just do it!
In the end, I would like to shout out: The Xinjiang barbarian played by Zhang Zhen should be regarded as the most handsome and charming role he has ever played!
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