The essence of a message

Rating: 10/10 (24 February 2001)

I wish I could fly. Not fly just as the word says, but fly with my imagination and be capable to came out with a feeling, honest and complex, and transpose it into a message. A message who only a few would understand, truly, but everyone could feel it, like a pulse.
Wo hu zang long, or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is a message, complex in the brutal form, but beautiful, simple and epic in its form. The movie express a culture, a feeling and most of all, the power of will.
In a way or another, the secret of the movies is that - get a feeling and use the cinematographic language to make reality of it. Ang Lee could do it in a way that nobody did before. Because he did it in his own way.
The movie is not about fighting, is not about China. The movie is about people, and what's around their beliefs and wishes.
The best on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the essence of it. In its way to express that each one of us has something to dream and fight for. Some of us denie it, some of us runaway from it.
But, sooner or later, we'll have to face it.