"Crouching Tiger.", I am told, is representative of a specific literary/cinematic genre in China: Wu Xia.the wizard/warrior piece.magic and martial arts blended. What a film this is: a superb action adventure romance with terrific acting and a much-welcome heart underlying the technical superiority. The camera rises, we see an almost impossible panorama of Peking, the Forbidden City spreading out before us like an Oz extending to the horizon. The cart rumbles on, its wheels fitting perfectly into the grooves worn by unspoken centuries of just such passing wagons.in one image we see how tradition creates its own paths, how contemporary reality is fabricated to fit such traditions. They nestle in deep ruts worn into the stone paving blocks of a roadway entering a gated city. There's a telling moment near the beginning of Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." In closeup, we see the rough-hewn, heavy wooden wheels of a peasant cart.
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