30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 04: A Movie That Makes You Sad
I would really like to pick a movie that I thought I’d love, but ended up hating, but that’s too easy and there are too many to list.
This was a really hard one for me to decide. To help, I limited my choice’s to movie’s I actually own. Which led me to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has some of the most amazing action and martial art sequences to ever appear in film. It also has some of the most amazing acting performances. The scenes between Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh are… I can’t describe it! They display so much in the few lines and stares that they share in their scenes together. With a few awkward pauses and longing looks they tell a history, decades long, of battle, friendship, desire, and love.
Why is it sad? It’s sad because no one gets what they want. Every character in the film comes into it the story already having made tremendous sacrifices in their lives and they make even more in each minute. These sacrifices never led them to anything they actually want. All of these amazing people, who are capable of such tremendous feats, are hampered by their class, their sex, their abilities, and even their love.
There are no happy endings. There is peace and finality for everyone in the film, but no reward and no measure of happiness.
