Nothing astonishes me more about Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon than its ending. Our hero, standing atop Wudan Mountain, poised to realize everything she’s struggled for, chooses instead to leap off its high peak, away from the lover and martial arts school that figure so prominently in her story.
As an eight year old, watching Zhang Ziyi’s character glide off a cliff and into the clouds seemed a little silly to me, but no more so than the rest of the…
