Lust Caution:
This is a new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary woman's heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei.

After watching, I think much of it and It has haunted me these days.
I love this movie, not for its sex scenes, but for its perfect portray of figures, especially the woman (Wong Jia Zhi). The whole story seems like tedium, but the heart of person is surfy.
Many cinephiles are anticipating the explicit sexuality, and some of them even criticized Lust Caution as a blue movie, but, I was attached to that woman!!
Maybe it's hard to understand the roles in this movie without the Chinese background and specific life experience. It's not an erotic movie but a psychologic movie. It sculptures an ordinary woman's heart and how it changed from innocent to sophisticated, from vivid to desperate.
She (Wong) used her whole life to struggle with despair. As a college student, she admired the leader of the theatre troupe (Kuang) and followed him to be a part of this absurd and insane assassination to a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee. For success in this assassination, she start to play a game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure. She devoted herself to her character and also broken her innocent dream with Kuang. The scenario proceeds as scripted until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee.
However, the game is not over. Several years later, she met Kuang in Shanghai and was asked to reprised her role again, this time she grew the hope for a new life again, and it leaded her to proceed. But after she realized her identity went to the limit, the preliminary hopes became the bubbles and disappeared in the crucial society, she was near to collapse until she really felt the real love, it is not from Kuang, or her father, but Yee, she was moved by Yee and realized his love at the last minute of the assassination. After conflict of sense and sensibility at that moment, she decided to save Yee's life by betraying her organization, in exchange for her last hope to get a life from Yee. but the result was unfortunately going to death! It's her destiny.
No matter how much Yee loved her, no matter Yee was so distressed, he had no other choice to dispose of an disclosured espionage.
With the advent of death, she didn't cry, because she was totally desperate with her life, there is no hope in her life to keep her desire to be alive.
It's sentimental to see this conclusion of Wong. She set up her hope every time ,but the crucial society brought her the life end.
Years to come Lust Caution will be studied and watched compulsively, it will strike debate among cinephiles of its worth. Most importantly it will be a film to be treasured, perhaps not by many, but by a very enlightened few who can really understand it.
I love this movie!!

Susan