Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
It is a moment of pure beauty. It is the bamboo sequence in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. How the character played by Chow Yun-Fat ends up fighting the character played by Zhang Ziyi is very complicated. But there they are on the top of a bamboo forest that appears to be endless. The two fighters—one calm, the other angry—dreamily sway back and forth, rise and fall with the bamboo. It’s like they are leaping from one green gust of wind to another. This film is one of Ang Lee’s best, but this sequence I think is the most perfect piece of cinema in his large body of work.
by Charles Mudede