Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution was raked over the coals by some movie reviewers when it first appeared in the theaters. They were mostly disappointed by the less-than-erotic soft-core sex scenes. (If you’re looking for an erotic WWII spy film rent Paul Verhoeven’s Black Bookinstead.) However, in Lust, Caution, sex serves not to arouse lust, as the title would suggest, but rather to peal away at Yee’s personality like an onion, undressing the calculating bureaucrat to reveal a desperate lover. We come to realize that each new layer reveals more lust, caution, and eventually no core at all. Unfortunately for Wong, she realizes too late.

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