Lust, Caution

*ing : Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Director : Ang Lee


Tagline : To kill the enemy, she would have to capture his heart....and break her own.

Finally saw movie Lust, Caution. Directed by Ang Lee. I had this movie in my computer for last 2 years. It is a very tragic love story set in 1940s of China. It’s a beautiful film and the title sounds odd initially, bt if you see the movie, it is very well justified. This film is about a woman enticing a top ranking official in the occupying Japanese government, in order to assassinate him. And there starts the game of love, sex, deceit , helplessness and tragedy.
I have seen many movies in my life. Many. But Lust, Caution has the most explicit sex scenes ever shown in a mainstream film. Sometimes its too graphic and discomforting too but sometimes its really beautifully done.sex scenes, which are very very long and very very detailed , are never forced in the film. Infact those are very important part of story. Watch it for the movie and the story. If at all u also want to watch it for sex scenes, u wont be disappointed.
Ang Lee is a genius. He's so good at capturing the emotions of his characters and actors. It's like he unfolds them so that everything on the inside is laid bare
The film itself at best is a espionage film. but that's not all it is. It's very much like a noir and a war film and romance is probably the genre that is represented least.
The film hasn’t left me since I hv seen it. Watch it.
Rating :
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