Movie Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Although the issues between two genders become serious and difficult to solve with, there still exists love between the two genders. Love is a constant topic among the people. Besides, Love is fantastic, unpredictable, and a main emotional connection in two human beings. There are several couple relationships in two movies. Some of them is searching for freedom of life. Some of them need to concern the ethics of society. No matter how the love has being created, the love is natural moments for human being to express their desires and thoughts.

The title of the movie is called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Crouching Tiger is represented by Lo, and hidden dragon is Jen. It is apparently that Jen is looking for an absolute freedom in both

Mu Bai’s death can defined as sacrifice for Jen. For instance, Teo argues in about the hero’s destiny that “We may define “the essence of heroism” as the drama of mortal men who fight and die for a worthwhile cause, attaining epiphany in death”. Death is a necessary to achieve the heroism in certain sense. Mu Bai is such an example of heroism in the movie. His death is to complete his task of heroism. Also, the death is associated with Daoism, which is following with nature. It cannot change by individual willingness. Moreover, at the end of the movie, Jen jumps off the Wudan Mountain. This clip becomes one of the most thoughtful scenes in the movie. It is convinced that her suicide is for Mu Bai. Levie notes that “The obvious answer is something sentimental, in keeping with the epic-melodramatic aspects of the movie: she wishes that she had arrived in time to save Li Mu Bai”. Perhaps Jen wishes her death can not only lead a rebirth of Mu Bai, but also change her minds of the martial arts. It is obvious that Mu Bai hopes his death can lead Jen go to a higher phase of the martial arts. The death of Mu Bai is the lesson that he teaches to Jen. And this lesson becomes the most significant moment for Jen. Jen eventually understands the Daoism of the life and the martial arts. Her jump from the Wudan Mountain leads a new stage of the Jiang

When Dieyi learns the opera in the school, the teacher is extremely strict. The teacher usually gives a serious physical punishment if the student performance needs to improve. Young Dieyi is punished due to his error of the words of opera. The critical line is “I am by nature a girl, not a boy”. In the beginning, he is keeping saying “I am by nature a boy, not a girl”. After several punishments, he is forced to accept his position of female figure and correct the line. In a certain sense, Dieyi is forced to switch his gender by the society. At the moment of his death, he repeats the words of “I am by nature a boy, not a girl”. he commits suicide after he finishes the performance. It is disputable for the reason of his death. A convinced statement illustrated by Chen is that “he dies not as a male, but as a female impersonator in the role of Concubine Yu, with which he so devotedly identifies.” Dieyi’s gender is blurred when he is in the opera school. Moreover, his death can be his own desire that he does not want to separate from the Xiaolou in his spiritual