Lust, Caution (Widescreen, NC-17- Rated Edition)
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DVD Cover Information Director: Ang Lee Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN. DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: Mandarin Chinese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled) Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Focus Features |
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Movie Reviews of Lust, Caution (Widescreen, NC-17- Rated Edition)
Movie Review: Lust, Caution
Summary: 4 Stars
"Lust, Caution" directed by Ang Lee (winner of an Academy Award for "Brokeback Mountain")is set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during WWII. The movie is based upon a short story by Eileen Chang, and it integrates complex themes of war, sex, love, and betrayal. The movie develops slowly over the course of seven years. It centers around a young group of Chinese students who wish to assassinate a powerful Chinese collaborator with the Japanese. Naive at first, the students make connection with the organized resistance movement and pursue their plan carefully and stealthily. A young woman in the group, Wang, of little sexual experience, has been given the task of seducing Mr. Yee, a leading Chinese collaborator and the head of security for the Japanese. Yee is cruelly efficient at finding and severely punishing members of the resistance. He is also well protected.
Ultimately Wang succeeds in infiltrating Yee's circle, and the two begin an affair. Scenes of a violently sexual nature are graphically portrayed. Wang, out to kill, and Yee, out for lust, ironically fall in love, with devastating consequences to both.
The lengthy movie develops slowly and the couple does not become physically involved until more than half-way through it. The pace of the movie builds up a great deal of tension, sexual and otherwise. During the course of her seduction of Yee, Wang tells her fellow members of the resistance that she has fallen in love with her intended victim. But to no avail as the plot inexorably moves forward. An effective moment points to the relationship that might have been between Wang and one of her collaborators.
The movie is well-paced, well-acted, and offers a convincing portrait of occupied Shanghai, with its brutality, vice, and repression, as well as with people trying just to get by and on with their lives. But the core of the movie lies in the relationship between the two chief protagonists, and the exploration of the connection between violence, sexuality, and love. The movie ultimately is a tale of the mystery of the development of love in the human heart.
Total time: 157 minutes
In Chinese with Subtitles
Robin Friedman