Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon--A story of courage, love, hate, forgiveness and a girl who wanted something in her life

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2007)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon--A beautiful movie that will captivate its viewers...An Wu Xia film that is filled with love and romance.
Li Mu Bai(Chow Yun Fatt) is a legendary warrior in the show whose skills are incomparable. Shu Lian( Michelle Yeoh) is his friend. Both of them love each other with all their heart, yet, because of their pursuit of justice and peace, they do not make their love open to each other despite knowing how deep they each love each other. Yet, their love is true and some may say everlasting. Through the show, viewers can feel their love but yet, it pains them to watch these two warriors keep their feeling hidden despite their desire to marry each other. At the end of the film, as Li Mu Bai dies, he finally tells Shu Xian that he had always loved her. As she cradles him in her arms, he says that he will not use his last breath to meditate to leave this earth because he wants to follow her when he is a spirit, because her love will not make him lonely. That, is the most touching scene of the show. Even through death, their love shall not cease, because the love that binds them together is true and pure.
Their relationship not only adds a new face to Wu xia films but also touches viewers's hearts.
Jen( Zhang Zi Yi) a aristocrat who is the secret disciple of the notorious Jade Fox brings something more to this film. It shows the story of a girl who self learned the Wu Dan manual and wanted something extrodianary and exciting in her life. Going to be married to someone she did not love, she feels that soon her freedom will be gone, so she steals Li Mu Bai's sword for fun an also returns it later. But after a while, she is caught in a situation which is much more serious. She finally reveals to Jade Fox what she had kept from her. She had kept the secret of the Wu Dan manual to herself so as Jade Fox would not improve, causing her governess to hate her. Yet, through the show, no matter how much trouble Jen causes, viewers can feel her confusion. She is torn between Li Mu Bai and Jade Fox as she can choose to follow one. In the end, she follows her own path and is saved by Li Mu Bai, but he dies. Seeing all this, she becomes good and travels to the Wu Dan mountain where her true lover was. There, she jumped down the mountain, fulfilling a legend about -a man who jumped down a mountain to get his wish to come true..the wish she had was not hers but her lovers, and she floated away.....
Her story shows how from and innocent girl, she learns the ways of a warrior and turns from bad to good. In the end, she freed herself from all hurt and sorrow, by fulfilling her lover's wish.
This movie is a movie that words cannot describe. What I have said is not good enough to describe it. The only way to feel and understand the emotions of the show is to watch it. It will carve a way through the hardest of hearts and will leave you mystified at the beautiful show. 10/10 is my grade.