crouching tiger, hidden dragon

I recently watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in class the other day... i must say that it was not the typically movie you watch. It was a martial arts movie, with tons of action and lots of meaning behind the actions of the people. With all of the action in this movie there was a lot of fight scenes. I feel as if there is a purpose behind so many fight scenes. The purpose of these fight scenes is to focus into on how much martial arts and their fighting techniques mean to them. It is as if the fighting and learning the ways to fight are extremely important to them. I also believe part of the purpose is to intensify and to describe the meaning of their emotions. The way they fought with all the passion like jen and Li Mu Bai shows how much respect they have for each other. Also the fighting scenes shows how good their training and how good of fighters they are. For example when they can define gravity and fly, then they have reached a certain level where they are above others. Thats what i believe is the purpose of the fighting scenes.