Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 martial arts action movie, what is this movie about?

The middle-aged warrior Li Mu Bai, and his love and has been together for many years, Yu Xiulian, after half a lifetime of turmoil and tired of the Jianghu disputes, determined to join hands with the love of their lives to go into seclusion, to go to the usual life of firewood and rice. So Yu Xiulian gave his own sword, the Green Destiny Sword, to the Beilei Master to make his mind clear. As a result, the sword was stolen in the hands of Yu Xiulian, the two in order to recover the Green Destiny, all the way to the head of the high-ranking officials gold Yu Jiao Long, and thus began a period of around Li, Yu, Yu three people's grudges and entanglements. This is the most superficial meaning of the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," but it is by no means all that director Ang Lee intended to convey.

If we think a little deeper, it is not difficult to realize that the Green Destiny Sword represents the repressed desires and aggressiveness of a traditional warrior like Li Mu Bai, who is loyal, filial, fraternal, and righteous, and that Jade Jiao Long, who seized the sword, is the envied but long-lost ego of the conservative, middle-of-the-road jianghu children, Li Mu Bai and Yu Xiulian.

Li Mu Bai is a warrior who puts his family and the world first, and is all righteous and puts others first in everything. Even though this has earned him a half-life of fame and the respect of many people in the jianghu, it's not the life he wants for himself after all. From the beginning of the movie, we know that half a lifetime of running Li Mu Bai on the complexity of the dangerous jianghu has been born to escape, the warrior can not leave the sword had with others, means that he let go of this lofty identity of determination, living half of his life, he finally decided to hold the hand of the love of his life, to go to live for themselves. But this time, Jade Jiao Long appeared, she was born affluent, pampered from childhood, indulgent and capricious, and get the master of the jade-faced fox's true heritage, learned a good kung fu, want to break away from home, do not serve the father pointed to the marriage of the love of their own people. Such a reckless and unrestrained, so that has been repressed by the morality and tradition of Li Mu Bai and Yu Xiulian eyes, as if to see the young pursuit of freedom in the ideal of their own, so both of them are tolerant of Jade Jiao Long. But also out of a person's experience, know that Jade Jiao Long so crazy can not be in the jianghu long-term foothold, and want to lead her back to the right way up. Li Mu Bai is for the sake of Yujiao Long, not hesitate to protect his own body, give his own life is also in the heart, see its to Yujiao Long, both to the past failed to realize the feelings of love and care of the self. However, Jade Jiao Long, after experiencing some of the storms of the jianghu, finally realized that the young himself in fact can not escape the reality of the step by step to force. The sword of the Green Destiny is sharp, but also can not break the stereotypes of the jianghu for thousands of years, Jade Jiao Long is fierce, but also can not break through the dragnet laid by the father's authority, whether it is the jianghu or the family, she can not really have a free future. In the end, Yujiao Long jumped off the cliff, not only is her personal ideal of destruction, but also Li Mu Bai's repressed self can not be realized a reflection.