As a matter of fact, at the end of last century, China's films already had a high international status. Films such as Farewell My Concubine, Alive, Story of Autumn Chrysanthemum and Red Sorghum have won awards at major film festivals around the world, but there is no doubt that these films all have a common problem: digging up national inferiority to please the judges of western film festivals. These films are reflective films with strong political and national characteristics, although objectively speaking, they are really enough to be called a film.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directly throws the story background into ancient times, re-inculcates the martial arts stories that China people love, and introduces western thoughts to the world, which has a great response. Do you really think it's enough for this movie to win an Oscar by letting people fly around and fighting martial arts in a cool way? That's too simple for you to think of.
In fact, if we want to talk about the core of "western thought" contained in it, we must introduce an Oedipus complex to everyone. The author of this prototype "King Oedipus" will not go into details here. You can understand it as an irresistible fate tragedy caused by the restriction of secular ethics, which can generally be applied to Oedipus complex or Oedipus complex, so it can also be called Oedipus complex.
In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the forbearing and deep love between Yu Xiulian and Li Mubai is an extension of this complex. Although they didn't have the same friendship, Yu Xiulian's husband died unexpectedly, and Li Mubai promised his best friend to take care of his wife for life. As a result, they were not together until they died. This fate tragedy caused by secular ethics is the "Oedipus Complex" sung by westerners for thousands of years.
It can be said that Ang Lee, as the director of China, introduced the western tragic thoughts into China films for the first time, which broke the shackles of domestic films reflecting on history and times and belittling their images, and introduced the "China Martial Arts Story" to the world in a way that westerners could understand for the first time. In this sense, it is indeed a classic in China's film history.