wise and true

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2001)

With regards to two gripes about the film (the flying, and the lack of relationship between the 2 main characters) i have some comments. if you have didn't like CTHD because of the above two reasons, read on!
First of all, it just bothers me that you weren't able to accept the fact taht people can just fly in this movie. It's a part of the literary genre, and even the whole discipline of kung fu is to achieve an enlightened state so one can levitate and defy gravity. So i think the story is totally logical. But even if you didn't know that, which i didn't before my friends informed me, i don't understand why one cannot accept the movie. It's clearly a fantasy, a myth, very much like matrix. And movies, what movies are supposed to do is provide an escape not only from our world, but also from the very physical rules that govern it. Seeing people leaping towards buildings shouldn't be any more startling than seeing James bond dive from a plane, a technician disarming a bomb, or a middle aged man trying to seduce his daughter's cheerleader girlfriend. It's the movies!
And also, with regards to your "lack of passion between the leads," I'm surprised you would make such a statement if you had liked "the Ice storm" Clearly the leads cared for each other in their facial expressions, the tone of voice with which they communicated, but they DID NOT show unrestrained passion like the younger lovers did. Obviously, this was set up in a "sense and sensibility" kind of way. Some will even argue that they had passion but it's suppressed because of their oath to her late fiance. I believe that there is not so much passion between them, but that doesn't mean there love is any less valuable, deserving or beautiful. They are more like soulmates on an emotional level, and their love was something great to behold-Just like the movie itself.