Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

In the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Li Mu Bai and Jen have a fight in a forest of bamboo.  In China bamboo has great significance with righteousness.  Righteousness can be defined as morally justifiable or right.  Because of this battle between a master and what is to be seen as a pupil, this battle could be seen as Li Mu Bai trying to teach Jen something.  This lesson could be how to be morally justifiable or righteous.  The scene that precedes this is when Jen is in a bar being very rude and ends up beating up everyone in the bar.  During the fight between Li Mu Bai and Jen, the two handle their surroundings very differently.  Li Mu Bai moves gracefully through the bamboo and Jen is very wobbly and new to her surroundings.  This is shown to emphasize how righteous of a man Li Mu Bai is and how new this whole experience of being righteous is to Jen.  A good example of how righteous Li Mu Bai is when he gets hit by a poison dart trying to protect Jen.  At this point he realized protecting the potential of this girl was worth more than his own life and maybe through his acts Jen could learn to be righteous.  Jen was able to see how Li Mu Bai held no resent towards her even after she got him killed.  Although Jen wanted to be a warrior she skipped the lesson of being righteous.  Li Mu Bai saw this and realized that he needed to teach her this in order for her to become a great warrior.