Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Farewell

[kanarinakimou]

so beautiful

[Metticus]

I don't know what happened to her. But she didn't die people. She can fly. Hello?!

[Deep0cean14]

The way she asks him to make a wish, so calml yet suicidal. The way he responds, such a pure answer, with his eyes closed, like if he knew she was going to throw herself and he didn't want to see her going away. The way she flies away so gracefully, like she would fly forever. The way he reacts to her flight, so peaceful yet so beautifully sad. The way the music portays so accuratelly the feelings in this scene.

This film is so incredibly amazing, truly inspiring and undoubtebly my favourite.

[ihsaraaa]

This always brings me to tears..

[6j6u6a6n6t6e6r6a6n]

anyone know the name of the place where this particulary scene was film?

[bobjth]

@Jijenji - "She does not die. She does not live." that sounds like Schrödinger's Cat ... the results are indeterminate until the base of the mountain is checked.

[bobjth]

"Shing Chun Tzuh Lee" ... I can't get over this.

[bobjth]

Of course she does not die ... "She wasn't even hurt. She floated away, far away, never to return. She knew his wish had come true."

Like mrsotter said, its about sacrifice. She could not bear to hurt anyone again, so by leaving she preserved forever Lo's memories of their time in the desert.

[Greenbat85]

According to the book it is inpired from, she does not die.

[InvalidAuthorization]

I dont know if Americans can understand the ending. But this is typical of Chinese stories, particularly of this type of historical/period fiction.

[SparadicMathematic]

A brilliant ending...

"A faithful heart makes wishes come true"

This still resonates with me after years. 

[novittumira]

after watching this all i could do is cry !!

[vvt2003]

"她在结尾时的纵身一跳，是对小虎讲的那个跳崖许愿会成真的故事­的回应，也是为了要对得住自己的心的一种决然，更是对未来的一种­期许。如果《卧虎藏龙》有续集的话，章子怡应该会复活成另外一个­觉悟了的人，她会对得起自己的心，不会像现在这样任性甚至自毁，­也不会像周润发那样总是收藏着自己（其实也是一种自毁）。周润发­的最后一口真气不是用来保全自己而是用来表达爱情，是一种忏悔是­一种弥罪；章子怡的最后一跳与其说是为了赴死，不如说是为了复活­心愿的达成。"

[Jocjabes]

Suicide? I dunno. How do you jump to your death when these ppl can fly? Its like seeing a fish drown to its death.



[ThePropheticfire]

she does commit suicide ,,thats why he hangs his head all sad,,,but it is spiritual to her and the story behind it about the boy who jumped off the mountain and God caught him and he lived forever.....with God....all through the movie she wasnt quite happy in her relationships at the end she frees herself in a nirvana type way maybe

[gossipIluvUihate]

she was freeing herself from the guilt she felt. or a least thats what some say.

[markbot]

i always gets tears...

she doesn't commit suicide! she is granting the wish and they will live happily ever after. sheesh.

[markbot]

i always gets tears...

[dhudhi5]

very pain ful end..i like this movie sooooooo much,,,and all movie sooo good one of the best movie i like

[EternalLoveism]

She is not Die.... She achieved Nirvana!! 

[weepingboy3]

The mystery of life is found in love  --- once lost it can never be found again

[TheGolipo]

Seems a lot of life / death / trascendental thing discussion in here...

Can anyone tell me if once experienced death ?

(and what is like?)

[fgtuh]

BASE JUMP !

[vaxetihirr]

beautiful ending to a beautiful film - why cant bollywood produce films of this quality?

[battaberry]

imagine thinking halfway down what a stupid idea it was...

[kingabz108]

beautiful.. she jumps because she believes.. if they are destined to be together again it will be.. he has faith also and doesnt disagree with her action.. they have come along way in their journey and to start again in a new future and better life they must let go and trust in themselves.. its all about ending beginning attachment detachment seperation uniting..cycles within eternity.. there is no beginning and there is no end..everything happens for reasons in which it is supposed to.. destiny

[magegirl8]

@kingabz108 your statements are somewhat contradictory... saying: "to start again in a new future and better life they must let go and trust in themselves.. " implies free will, like they have a choice to trust in themselves or not - yet the you invoke destiny.

[Bolt646]

make a wish lo.

[taxandroid]

this is the same as: if u love me u will jump with me...

[Crowett20]

I think that she just goes on forever in the wind... Which would mean she has a faithful heart... Kinda sad that Li mu bai had died...

[RottenAppleSeeds]

i don't get the ending. lo wishes for the two of them to be back together in the desert. but in the legend that he tells, the boy who jumped got his wish, but never came back.

is she just using the jump as a metaphor for a fresh start, but in reality, she's just floating down to the floor to race lo to the desert and surprise him?

[KevinManh]

I watched this first in my Chinese Cinema class. This scene gives me the chills still. I think what gives this scene so much more emotion is the song. It gives a feeling of melancholy, but also a sense of hope for a new beginning between Lo and Jen. It gives off a bittersweet type emotion just as the song title implies, "Farewell." I also recommend the movie, "Eat Drink Man Woman" by Ang Lee. Another beautiful movie.

[ThnkHppyThghts]

@KevinManh Lol If you like this song then you should watch Hero...this is pretty much the main theme of the entire movie :)

[mrsotter19]

I think she jumped because she messed her life and the lives of those around her so much she couldn't see a logical way of erasing the past and have a normal life... Besides the legend said the little boy cured his parents but he floated away, never to be seen again. It is about sacrifice. In her mind he will always remember their time in the desert.

[harry911tk]

@mrsotter19 i totally agree, she jumped because she blamed herself for everything that happened, she mentioned the legend as a way of saying goodbye but they both knew they would never see eachother again, which is why the dude was crying after she jumped and why sad music was playing. how do people not get this?

[harry911tk]

@harry911tk and in some asian cultures suicide was an option for righting a wrong

[Thelookoutslookout]

i could listen to that music for another 5 minutes, shame it got cut off

[mikedeviant]

I guess I'm a sucker for a sappy ending, cos this makes me cry like a baby every time.

[aussieguy2109]

If she is able to fly across lakes, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch for her to survive jumping off a mountain.

[DawnMarie121]

OMG.. this wasn't a suicide. She made a wish to be back in the desert and with a faithful heart it will come true. I researched this film. Also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Means things that are hidden. this film should of won for best film.

[Pelon771]

how can you guys be so retarted, the guy who jumped off the mountain got his wish granted, so Lo made his wish to be back with her in the dessert so she jumped and if she had a true heart her dream would of come true

so at the end basically they were both back in the dessert

[phialinrf]

darling, as far as I remember, that is not what happened...

She wished and jumped...good riddance..she is a rotten person.

[aussieguy2109]

@phialinrf how is she a rotten person? She wanted freedom, thats why she stole the sword and learnt martial arts. If anything was rotten it was the female repressing society of the time.

[phialinrf]

@aussieguy2109 --hello, she is a rotten person --I said that! Because she killed all the people who represent good.. Stealing the sword and learning martial arts was something she used with purpose..She defied authority from the beginning, lies, and murdering her teachers..For freedom..What freedom? why did she kill herself in the end...guilty of what she did? Freedom..yeah right..

[aussieguy2109]

@phialinrf if you actually watched the movie, you'd see she never killed anyone. She lived in a society where she was only as worthy as her fathers bank account. she didnt want to be in a forced marriage and remain a piece of property for the rest of her life. She saw her opportunity when she was young to learn martial arts and when she finally saw the sword she realised that with it. She could be independent and live a free life.

[phialinrf]

@aussieguy2109 I studied Asian civilization..during the time, she was not one of a kind as in trying to emerge as a warrior--there were women warriors before her..As i saw, my interpretation is different from your man's point of view..If it was me, I would have done it differently.. I would have the sword ---with permission..

[aussieguy2109]

@phialinrf She wouldn't be allowed the sword, her father would of went mental. She was put in a bad place

[aussieguy2109]

@phialinrf she later on went to realise, that a life of a fighter was a hard one. However even with lee mu bai's constant chasing she didn't want to give up the sword. She didn't want to return and be some mans repressed wife.

She might of been responsible for lee mu bai's and even jade foxx's deaths indirectly. But that is irrelevant. She never killed anyone, she was just a victiom of fate and circumstance.

[jrobertp67]

what??? the hell r u talking about

[jmgonzalez58]

Well, people don't fall in diagonal. Simply, she isn't falling, she is flying down to the valley.

[duluktarilla]

@jmgonzalez58 dude, you haven't got any imagination

[emmajpatton]

i never thought of it as a suicide, i always thought she was freeing herself from what she had done. and from the world created in this movie i think its a lot more complicated than simply being alive or dead.

[juancho0386]

Love this song, and the ending, but I have to recognize that I´ve never understood what it means, I always thoght that she is like "killing herself" in a "poetic" way, but maybe that's wrong... anyway I really love it!

[sajiduk]

Well Shu Lien told her to be true to herself in whatever she does in life. She knows she took away Shu's only love and is therefore being true to herself by ending her own life. At the same time she's giving Lo some sort of hope because he believes in the legend of the boy who jumped from the bridge and floated away into heaven. So she's making up for what she's done, yet at the same time Lo will get some sort of comfort and understanding from it. That's the way i see it.

[5ick1ntheH3AD]

The alternate ending:

"Make a wish, Lo."

"To be back in the desert, together again."

[She jumps off-]

"WAIT!! THAT WASN'T MY WISH!!"

[She screams on the way down]

[cesar630]

oh crap!

lol XD!

[Marleneagnes]

I visited China a couple of years ago, it is a wonderful country!

[ForgotEnglish]

does it look anything like this movie?

[P2K725]

I think that because she knew she wouldn't be free like she was in the desert, she merely made the decision to end it all, and remember things as they were.

[Jijenji]

She does not die. She does not live. It is up to the interpretation of the viewer and whether or not you think her faith made her wish come true.

How you view the ending says a lot about you.

[subroto81]

What a beautiful response....totally asian in belief. a westerner or a middle easterner would not be able to grasp this concept.

[lex588467]

@Jijenji

wow b what you are saying they have porn at the end. "it is up to the viewer and by that says what kind of person he or she is. hahha. omg. humans.

[SuperOxideDimutase]

@Jijenji She committed suicide because of the guilt she felt. is this not obvious?

[TheGolipo]

@Jijenji a lot?? look at your tie knot !

just kidding

[InvalidAuthorization]

@Jijenji word!

[cnguyen58]

Smart guy! stay badck, did not jump along with her

[pitabreadpita]

"CRYING!"

[taliayu]

she throws herself to chage the past ad be with hi i the desert forever

[alra1975]

You really understand... She still loves him.

[ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

no she dies

[phialinrf]

Atonement...that's why it's sad. This movie was made according to hte culture set in this period. so yes, she jumped to her death. So many interpretation...but if you study Asian civilization..there's metaphors for every word and actions. I had a professor who lived in China for 15 years to study ---the mysteries of China, Japan, Korea before they became a warring nations. It's so beautiful to remember listening to him. at New Mexico State Univ.

[ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

lol sometimes i just wish to just live a life of solitude on a beautiful mountainous hill in china, just learning all those touching and eerie mysteries

[phialinrf]

Sometimes it is the BEST way to live.

[ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

what do u mean sometimes

[phialinrf]

I would like to live in a place like solitude in a place where I can just stare at the mountains in China or here at the Appalachians, Rocky Mountains in Ohio and Colorado... or hills of New Mexico, rivers, marshes in Kentucky. But, we also need to LIVE according to what we DO in life. What are you? What do you do? I am a writer so yes. I would love to live there.

[ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

im 15, i wanna be a doctor

[zeogeox]

Ahhh sounds great perhaps when I retire I'll go back to Albania and live in the mountains.

[ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

yea.

[thesungodterry]

OMG Me too!

[PrincesaDeLuna]

Como lloré yo con esta película,es preciosa

[moralmaster]

Pues yo mira k ace tiempo k la vi y aun alguna lagrimilla cae, sobre todo con esta escena.

"Pide un deseo...."

[yoshikm]

Don't watch this movie after a break up! oh it'll make you cry so much. Yo Yo Ma was the perfect choice for the music. No one else on earth could have portrayed such emotion through music.

[luvliuyifei]

This film REALLY made my obsession with chinese girls take-off. Now I can think of nothing but them......chinese girls are SOOOOOOO beautiful!!!!

[movieviewer9020]

Yes ....chinese woman are sooooo beatuiful....i agree

[luvliuyifei]

.........MAKE A WISH LO!

[luvliuyifei]

Totally agree! This film is the best....EVER!

[luvliuyifei]

MAKE A WISH LO..................

[leopeo207ver]

This is a masterpiece. Truly breathtaking, this scene alone makes me bawl like a little baby. This freaking movie has it all, it is my all time favorite! Make a wish lo....

[Danina92]

i looooove it"!

[Ge0ffrey1]

This is the ultimate anti-feminist movie. The man voluntarily gives up his "sword," and the three women who try to wield it come to unhappy endings. One is killed, another commits suicide, and the third loses the love of her life.

[sajiduk]

Come off it

[Ge0ffrey1]

Perhaps you've also given up your "sword."

[sajiduk]

On the contrary, it sounds as though you're giving up yours (",)

[rybannah]

The woman didn't commit a suicide. You don't understand anything. She is flying down the valley to make her wish and the wish of her lover come true.

[smgfan150]

can you explain further... ^^''

pleeeaaaase.... I was quite young and I think I didn't quite catch the end...

[rybannah]

Yes I can. This is a kind of film in which the "well trained heroes" can fly. This woman (a princess) had trained secretly. The man she is talking to in this scene is her lover who she had met in a desert before. They couldn't stay together because she was a princess. In one of the previous scenes, she was telling a story about a man, who wanted his children to recover from illnesses, and so he dived into the valley. The children recovered, but the man has never come back.

[rybannah]

(now I continue :-) - and in this scene, the woman asks her lover about his wish. He replies "I want to come back to the desert." So she flies down the valley to make their wish come true. The film was made according to a serie of book. In the following part, these two people are really living together in the desert and they have a child. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is such a wonderful story... If you understand it, it TAKES your breath away.

[smgfan150]

THANKS a lot !! I remembered I cried cause I though she commited suicide or something like that !! Thanks to you I can now re-watch and catch the end ^^...

[altodivo]

well one can see her as killing herself as the only means of coming to terms with the fact that she is essentially responsible for Li Mu Bai's death, and this is the only way she can atone for it. The legend is essentially metaphor I think; something to make the truth easier for her, and others.

[staronciceli]

i think a lot of westerners believe that she jumped off the cliff and therefore committing suicide, but I think it's open to interpretation. since the director left this particular chapter of the story at that scene, you aren't supposed to know if his wish came true later and they are rejoined or if he never sees her again. i just see it as she's letting herself be free of the things she has done, it's not so much what happens as she lands that's important, but the jumping itself.

[bananian]

@staronciceli

she jumped off a mountain head first....

[ZzLiGHTNiNGzZ]

its really touching..u gotta watch it again

[smgfan150]

I surely will !!! ;)

[keroumusername]

What an intelligent comment! You've actually seen the movie, right? Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? ... brain dead!

[Ge0ffrey1]

Loved the movie.

[Jijenji]

Hey if you click on my page I uploaded the other scene that goes with this. The one in the mountains where he tells her he loves her and then tells her the legend of the young man jumping off the mountain. Both scenes are beautiful.

[Marleneagnes]

Wunderbar!

[solofinns]

what a movie ! God bless them and ya'll in here...

[OctobreTress]

now she is finally set free. this was an absolute beautiful movie! I loved it!

[ebonics4everyone]

Watching this again I'm not sure if this is suicide or not. This is the best movie China ever produced bar none. It's exquisite and better than all the American movies made so far this year.

[Haroun2k]

In the movie, pretty clearly to me at least, it's suicide. This story is based on a Manchu era novel. In the novel, she fakes her death and goes back to marry the man her family picked for her. A friend from China related that part to me, and it goes on beyond that. In any version, the ending isn't happy. =(

[nikosathens1]

best scene of the movie. every time i watch it i cry

[sajiduk]

tell me about it!

[ponting990]

there are no easy words to describe how touching this part and what a great movie this is...one of the best of all times me thinks

[cherri84]

I love this part!

[The4thLoV3r]

best scene ever. so sad and so beautiful.

[boyes1980]

Maybe the Uyghur people are ignored because they are muslims? Any way great movie.

[boyes1980]

Search for the video 'Yoyoma -the eternal vow- and snowy landscapes' the ending song of this movie begins with the dap and rawap, two uyghur instruments.

I've been to Xinjiang. I can recommend everybody to go there. It's on the silkroad and the uyghurs have a beautiful culture. They're Turkic people with a Turkic language, they are not (han) chinese. I wonder why there is so less attention for the Uyghur people. People only know the Tibetan and Mongol people.

[Railaaa]

True!

[boyes1980]

I wonder why Xinjiang is translated by 'go back to the dessert' Why not just 'go back to Xinjiang?' Xinjiang is the place of the Uyghur people. That guy playes an Uyghur in this movie, I remember that he sang an Uyghur song in the Uyghur language in the movie while that girl was bathing. A lot of uyghur music is used for this movie as well, the last song of yoyoma is definetely influenced by uyghur music.

[66QQ66]

you should read some works on "China's frontier studies." The notion of new territory is alwasys historically defined.

[BlueHaloPhoenix]

I remember this movie ending leaving the biggest lump in my throat it hurt. I'm glad I was able to hold it in cause I knew if I had let it go,I would burst out crying in public and being a dateless guy in a crowded movie thearter at the time,can't have that happen.

[superdome123]

BlueHaloPhoenix, exactly the same thing happened to me. I can hardly describe it. A lump left in my throat at the end of the movie. I couldn't stop thinking about this scene for days. I kept thinking of myself as Lo, running down the mountain to rescue Zhang Ziyi before she jumped (maybe the fact that i think she is the most beautiful women i have ever seen adds to that :-}. If a film has this effect on somebody, then it must be powerful beyond words. The music still brings tears to my eyes.

[thehackerivica]

sad ...

[WetChinchilla]

Oh god, i could just cry.

The music is absolutely gorgeous.

I've said this before and said this again - Asian films seriously master the Art of Beauty.

[libbeingcool]

Just beautiful!

[libbeingcool]

Just beautiful!

[ladydiangie]

I´m just love the end of that movie.. and the music!!!! awesome

[huadongfilm]

the ending , i was cried

[Kayenne54]

Best movie ever! hardly even needed the subtitles to "get it"...spent the whole movie crying! lol...

[5n34ky]

i was wondering if you could play the whole song...

[armygrl07]

If she really loved him she would have stayed...

[ro332]

"If she really loved him she would have stayed..."

That's a complete contradiction. She jumped because of the story he told her earlier in the movie. The whole reason she jumped was so they could be happy in the desert together again.

[BiggousDickous]

I agree sir. In her indolence, she inadvertently killed Li Mu Bi, ruined a marriage/her parents reputation, striped Yu Shu Lien of her lover... not things she can fix. They can't hide out in Wudan for ever. That was the only way they could truly be together, back in the 'dessert' aging.

[HyugaHinatafan810417]

Oh...I was really confused before.

[cagalli04]

she can fly?

[jizzdogs]

so beautiful. so sad! Such a beautiful scene. Why cant we have more films this standard???

[Peibolsantander]

me encanta la cancion

[EmSexyKhong]

I still don't really understand why she jumped...She was finally with her loved one...

[cals52]

That's what makes it so beautiful. And remember, in this story, she is the Hidden Dragon: We don't know anything about her and we know nothing of what she is thinking. In a way, like Shu Lien tells her, she is only being true to herself. Also I believe it allows for a sequel (I really hope so!!). I hope that answers your question :).

[bluensunshine]

Perhaps it was inevitable as the train of events she set in motion following her theft of the Green Destiny led directly to the death of Li Mu-bai and she thus deprived Yu Shu-lien of her true love... but of course I could be wrong

[cals52]

Favourite Movie, Favourite Scene :)

[pepuska]

This is my favorite film, song and secene. They know how to make people cry..

[Antares070]

One of my favourite movies and one of my favourite scenes, absolutely superb!

[vejamos]

I completely agree!

[femaleAngel2006]

Same here! Great song...When you feel the need to cry...

[leopeo207ver]

The best movie ever! Period! It has a little of everything to please everyone: Action, Adventure, Love stories, politics, revenge, betrayal, martial arts, you name it this movie got it.

This is my favorite scene, everytime I see it I cry like a baby!