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Lust, Caution (Widescreen, NC-17- Rated Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025193330628
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 125
Label: Focus Features
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Focus Features
MPN: 62033306
Publisher: Focus Features
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Studio: Focus Features
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Editorial Review:
Provocative thrilling and passionate Lust Caution is the daring new film from acclaimed Academy Award®-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). Set against the backdrop of a transforming countrya young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress she becomes entangled in a dangerous game that will ultimately determine her fate. Erotic breathtaking and suspenseful this award-winning film is being called "exquisitely beautiful" (Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times) and "lushly sensual" (Leah Rozen People).System Requirements:Running Time: 159 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: NC-17 UPC: 025193330628 Manufacturer No: 62033306
Lust, Caution, Ang Lee's follow up to Brokeback Mountain, for which he won the Academy Award® for Best Director, continues his exploration of people with a passion for each other trapped in a world where their passion could be life-threatening, but in a very different context this time. Set in China during the Japanese occupation of early World War II, the underlying plot concerns the story of young Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei), an actress and member of a small group of student resistors planning to infiltrate the home of Mr. Yee (Tony Leung), a high-ranking collaborationist government official, in order to kill him for his role in the torture and executions of Chinese resistance fighters. Chi ingratiates herself with Yee's wife, the sophisticated and cultured Mrs. Yee (Joan Chen) under the guise of being the wife of a wealthy but unseen tycoon. Flashbacks tell the tale of how Chi came to be involved with the resistors: her acting ability is her most valuable asset, and her assignment is to act the role of Mr. Yee's lover, right down to the sex. The story of their love and the painful intimacy it involves for both of them is told through their sexual relationship, which starts out violently, drifts into S&M, and shifts with their feelings, moving from pain and fear to some sort of desperate connection. This is lust with a capital L; the film's sex scenes have become famous for their frankness and acrobatic portrayals (they took 12 days to film), but amazingly enough, it's never prurient. The nature of their sexual relationship, and not the sex itself, is the point. Chi falls in love with the man she's supposed to kill, but there is no stopping the mission and she knows it. The danger of it all collapsing for them both is ever present, and that's the Caution. The cinematography and direction in Lust, Caution is masterful, and every scene is beautiful. The film does drift into a languid pace, and at times one wonders why Lee would feel the need to draw it out at the expense of delaying the crucial climactic scenes. Still, it's a wonderful piece of storytelling that should only help solidify Ang Lee's place in cinematic history as a master of films that express the difficulty of being essentially human in an inhumane world. --Daniel Vancini Stills from Lust, Caution (click for larger image)
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Loyalty overcome by longing -- in this sumptuously filmed tale of occupied China
Wong Chia Chi is a young and inexperienced woman from Shanghai, studying at a Hong Kong university to escape from the Japanese occupation of her home city. She is soon caught up with a group of idealistic young revolutionaries, in a plot to assassinate Mr. Yee, a high ranking official in the collaborationist government. Posing as Mrs. Mak, the wife of a wealthy businessman, she insinuates herself into the family of Mr. Yee, eventually winning his trust and becoming his mistress. Trouble is, the ... Read More
Rating: - A Glamorous Noir Vision of China
Chinese auteur Ang Lee is the chameleon of directors. Who else has such a broad, genre-busting resume? A period piece based on a beloved classic of English literature (Sense & Sensibility); a superhero flick (The Hulk); a meditation on dysfunctional 1970s suburbia (The Ice Storm); another period piece about two doomed cowboys in the love that dared not speak its name in 1950s Wyoming (Brokeback Mountain). Lee returns to his country and language of origin with "Lust, Caution". This follow-up ... Read More
Rating:  - Great characters, but needs more historical context
I recognize that many aspects of this movie are nothing short of greatness. Ang Lee has once over outdone himself in a new genre - that said, "Lust, Caution" is deeply lacking as a Chinese movie published to the Western world. While the characters' actions are moving, there is not enough historical context to explain their motivation. For example, the audience is not introduced to any of the horrendous crimes on the part of the Chinese collaborator guy that justify the plots against him. There was ... Read More
Rating:  - Loved this film
Another film I purchased after renting it. I only wish I had seen it on the large screen....one would really have the feeling of being there in this time period.
Brilliant editing, filming, script, performances, story telling as well as sensual.... it is a breathtaking film!
Highly recommended!
Rating: - a dish best served cold
I have to admit I did not read the original story this movie based on.
With that aside, I find this movie ending very " disturbing ".
May be Mr. ang lee do not want to excrcise too much artistic freedom ( ala that Demi Moore's Scarlet Letter fiasco ), but a director's cut is in order with alternate endings.
1. The bad guy died in hails of bullets......happy ending but no depth.
2. The bad guy and girl died in hails of bullets..... better ending, it shows girl died for country ... Read More
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