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[cicer]

I watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the five-millionth time last night.

This is definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. The fighting is truly awesome, but what I love most is how the movie isn't just an action flick. The drama and emotion in the movie is nearly unparalleled.

I almost never cry at movies. I'm the sort of person who cries maybe once or twice a year. It's just really hard to make me get soppy about movies. But when I watched the movie last night, and it got to the part when Li Mu Bai was dying, I started sobbing. Uncontrollably. When Li Mu Bai was telling Shu Lien that he knew he wasnt't going to make it, and he only had one breath left, and she told him to use it to meditate and let his soul move on, and not to waste it on her, I was very teary. When he said he'd already wasted his whole life by not telling her that he loved her, and that he'd rather spend eternity as a ghost by her side than enter heaven without her...ack. Soggy, soggy cicer.

Those themes in stories always break my heart. When people don't realize they love each other, or don't have the courage to say anything until it's too late, that's incredibly tragic to me.

I love Jen's character in Crouching Tiger, too. The viewer sympathizes with her, and hates her at the same time. She's so consumed with her pride and fear, that she ends up inadvertently destroying everything. And then at the end, when she throws herself off the bridge....well, I was already crying at that point, anyway. Sad, beautiful movie.

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[hungry-worm.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful movie, in so many ways. I've only seen it twice, but it's the kind that you can watch all over again. And that scene is really tragic. Augh. As much as I hate the cliché of the everpresent happy end, I sometimes ache for one. But it was good this way... just so sad!

[cicer.livejournal.com]

I know, it's so, so beautiful. And I actually really like happy ending! Sometimes they're cheesy, but heck, we could all use a little more happiness in our lives. Such a sad ending, though. *wibbles*