Best movie of the year! One thing to make it better..

Rating: 10/10 (25 December 2000)

CTHD is my favorite movie this year. I think you can see other comments to know how great this movie is, so I just want to comment on something that can make it better, at least I think...
I am a big fan of chinses kung-fu fictions (or wuxia novels). The kung-fu world in wuxia novels are fantasy that I grew up with. People in this fictional world can leap hundred feet effortlessly, if they have a good "Light-Kung" (one kind of kung-fu that you can channel your internal strength, or "chi", to your feet and make you jump much higher than common people). Most critics call it "gravity-defying ability". Anyway, light-kung is something that you have to take it for granted when you read a wuxia novel. However, people don't just fly. You gotta bounce on something. Worrior with high-level light-kung can even bounce on a twig or water. When Jen leap over water for hundred feet, I took it for granted. But when Chou Yun-Fat raised his right hand and did a superman style flying in the bamboo forest and other scene, me and my friend both yelled "that's impossible". I guess most die-hard wuxia novel fans will feel the same because there is no kung-fu that can make people fly. It's a rule, period.
Chou Yun-Fat did several "fly" in this movie and it looks so "made-up". But I guess I'm too hard on him. I just saw a review from Ebert. He asked Ang Lee if computer trickery was used and the actors were not really 40 feet in the air holding onto the bamboo tree. The truth is that Chou Yun-Fat was really hung in the air, with his wife 40 feet down on the ground crossing her fingers. For that, I have to say he did a really good job.