Review of Lust, Caution (2007) by Merlin — 05 May 2009
I will say at first that half way through the movie the story gets deep in sexual situations. It is very graphic to the point of almost seeming like soft core porn. But the movie looks at it a different way.
It is how the characters feel before and after the situation that shows why they went into so much detail. The film is set around WWII and a mix between the Americans, Chinese and Japanese. The movie is mostly focused around Wei Tang.
Her character is a young girl at first trying to fit in and gets mixed together with a political group because of a friend and a boy. This group later in the movie goes as far as trying to kill to change their world to what they want.
What really ends up happening though is that Tang's character becomes a toy to this political group and almost just a sexual object to get this one guy. She has to seduce him. She even gives up her virginity to train to become a great sexual object.
She ends up getting so use to it, that she starts almost losing her own mind and just has to finish the mission. It has a bit of a twist ending. I know the movie is almost 3 hours long, but it is worth it.
The whole film was done really well.
This review of Lust, Caution (2007) was written by Merlin on 05 May 2009.
Lust, Caution has generally received positive reviews.
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