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A new me!! Well, a new profile, at any rate. I continue to be a marginally insane English teacher with three cats and a wonderful husband (awwwww) BUT, there's more! I am also a would-be writer of children's fiction and am currently working on my fi...
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Last night I went to see 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon', thinking I was going to see a martial arts film set in contemporary New York with English-speaking Chinese actors. It was a delight to discovery all my preconceptions were totally, utterly, wrong. This is a mesmeric film, beautifully shot, superbly performed and totally absorbing.
Although the plot seemed to dart all over the place, I suggest that confusion felt as a result of this is not due to poor story telling, but the fact that this follows an Eastern approach to story-telling, rather than a linear, Western one.
The film covers many traditional elements of Chinese / Far Eastern mythologyand philosophy. Strongly grounded in Buddhism and the coda of the honourable warrior, the film recounts the story of a Wudan warrior who has to reclaim his sword, stolen by a corrupted wannabe.
A key feature of the film is the romance and the oriental concept that the purest form of love is that shared, but never acted upon. This is demonstrated by the warrior Lee and his 'partner' Lu Shien. Only at the end of the film does he finally tell her how he feels - and the language is such that Hollywood would do well to look at the beauty of the language used to convey such emotion without once falling into cliche.
This is a film which contains something for boys and girls alike. For once, I agree with the oscar nominations.
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I agree that this is a wonderful which swings happily from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again. The martial arts scenes are breath-taking and the cinematography is superb. Nice op, Medusa. ;-)
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