If you don't have one of your own: An Interpretation of the ending (and the flying)

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2000)

Have you ever had the feeling that something you had hoped for, wished for, dreamed for, turned out to be your worst nightmare? It's like, all your life, you had been wondering what your birth father would be like (whom you had never met), and one day you found out his name was Darth Vader...

Would you feel like jumping off a cliff?
Jen may be a talented warrior, a passionate lover, but her true love was freedom. All her life, all what she wanted was to be like Yu Shu Lien, or more precisely, to be like the characters she read about in books, defying the rules of the society and laws of physics, roaming (flying) around as a carefree sword goddess. But after all the havoc she caused and a brutal confrontation with the reality, she realized, almost overnight, that there was no such thing as freedom. No matter where you are, no matter who you are, you are doomed to be a prisoner of your own past, your own circumstances, your own life...
Now, jumping off the cliff didn't seem to be such a bad choice after all, did it? It was Jen's last attempt at freedom.
Oh, what's up with all the flying? You might as well ask, what's up with "The Force"?
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(I gave this film the same rating as I did to "Star Wars".)