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Monday, March 17, 2014

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a  film talks about Wuxia. The whole movie links with the sword called "Qing Dynasty". People who considered as "Xia"  preferring to a person whose sense of righteousness is so profound that it empowers them to sacrifice themselves and even break the law to help people.  Li Mu Bai is an typical example of this. The values that Wudan masters teach their puplis is in the similar way, to teach them use their fighting skills in a right way and help people. As a disciple of Wudan, Li Mu Bai is knows the value of fighting skills and feels responsible to help Shu Lien. She is talented, but she is too young and does not know what she should do. Li Mu Bai tries to lead her with Wudan rules. For the teaching of Buddhism, everything exists for its reason, nothing worth having. The things that having is depend on yourself, it worth having if you want to, otherwise it does not. There is not a criterion  to judge worth or not, you choose what to do and you are responsible for what you have done. All the fighting scenes makes the whole movie more exciting and push the plot to a climax.The final fight between Li Mu Bai and Jen takes place in a bamboo forest. That fighting is more like a lesson Li Mu Bai gives to Jen instead of a fighting. He teaches her to be a righteous person like the bamboo and uses her skills in a right way. In the end, Li Mu Bai dies to save Jen, Shu Lien does not kill Jen instead but asks her to be true to herself. Actually, Jen does that and chooses to oil herself because she knows that is the best way to get the redemption and get away from regret. The ending is ambiguous but I think it is a good ending because Jen finally knows the importance of responsibility.

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