some will love it, the ignorant will hate it

Rating: 9/10 (13 June 2001)

seeing this movie once makes me want to see it again and find what i missed. more than anything, this movie makes me want to learn chinese so i can catch the entire meaning of the film. you can translate a language so it is understandable to a person without delivering the whole meaning. my girlfriend is japanese... i know what i'm talking about here.
one thing too many people complain about is the so-called "flying" in the film. first, it is not flying. in kung fu there is a certain skill to be learned where a person makes themselves lighter. to actually reduce one's own body weight. without knowing this, you won't understand what they are doing in the film and you'll question why she rode a horse instead of "flying" for the antidote. the people who complain about the accuracy of the movie are usually the same ones who make me ashamed to be american.
some can go and watch Pearl Harbor or Gladiator and love the film without caring about the historical inaccuracies because they say the film is not a documentary. that it is only for entertainment. yet, by watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, they are the same ones to complain about the accuracy of flying.
to dislike a something because you don't understand it is what's wrong with this world. that is how people become prejudice. if you don't take the time to learn about something different from yourself, you will never understand the beauty in the world.
the movie was quite enjoyable and the end of the movie has stuck with me to this day.