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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon : 5 of 5
9.16.2007 7:26 AM \| Link	This was another impulse DVD buy for an incredibly cheap price, which was an easy decision since I enjoyed this film so much in the theater. My timing was pretty interesting, too, since two of the leading actresses from my recent viewing of Memoirs of a Geisha (Ziyi Zhang and Michelle Yeoh) were in this movie together, and watching their performances of much different characters was fascinating. Once again, I was blown away by the action sequences, which always seem more impressive than any Jedi fight in the Star Wars movies! The wire work used to make characters fly is beautiful, although I found a few moments less than convincing this time around. I paid more attention to Michelle Yeoh's performance, too, which is simply filled with emotion, even though she has to hide it behind her reserved facade (and I never realized before how difficult expression can be in Mandarin Chinese, because of the limited language tones). The way she looks at Chow Yun-Fat is incredible - you can just see her bottled-up love behind her eyes, which completely pours forth in their final scenes together. Ziyi Zhang is fantastic as well, and I love her attitude and coolness in the big restaurant fight scene (one of the best in the movie), as well as her stubborn feelings toward her dessert lover. The DVD includes a pretty nice documentary as well, which was originally shot for Bravo. It was really nice to see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon again to get caught up in the fantasy, the costumes, and the gentleness of it all. It may seem strange to call a martial arts movie "gentle", but the deeper you look, this film shows you so much more. Labels: dvds


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