Did you manage to watch Ahn Li's "Lust Caution" yet
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puffy-bluffy
Nov 24, 2007, 1:34:20 PM11/24/07
to yesterday once more once more
I had finally walked into cinema with two other gals of company. It
was a Thursday night after having been swamped by loads of work. The
sudden hit of romantic tragedy seems so surreal that I even lost sleep
at that night.
The story and casting were very subtle, attracting but depressing in
general, a typical Eileen Chang's writing style. Being a little woman
with sophisticated observation of life, I always admires her capture
of every single details of feeling of ordinary women, mundane but each
unique in their own way.
Interestingly enough, one of my girl companies asked "do you think she
did it simply because of that ring?" I was surprised how superficial
this question was because the answer is a definite no! Nothing could
blind women than love. Women are rather different species than men
who can totally be controlled by emotions and sacrifice for them. Men
tend to have more biological desires (or being controlled by lower
part of body) hence ostensibly looked sensible. (No offence to my
male friends please )
The sex part was inevitably striking most people's attention, which
might have dragged 80% of audiences to cinema with 80 bucks out of
pockets at the first place. However, personally I think it was
overrated. Firstly, although it was quite real, watching a twisted sex
of sadism wasn't really enjoyable. Second, Tony Leung seems desperate
for winning some international prize by astonishingly exposing so
much. A funny episode off the stage was that a westerner man sitting
beside me has always folded his legs at every time intimacy parts went
on. Well at least he is a normal guy I guess .
Not sure if you had seen a full version of that movie. It would be
nearly 3 hours in length. Hope that it won't be stupidly cut into a
"cleaner" edition. Without the sex part, you won't observe "Mr. Yi's"
desperation, perversion, fear of intimacy, and being unable to trust
anybody... As for the leading female role, there seemed not much
underneath implication from Wang Jia Zhi's acting.
was a Thursday night after having been swamped by loads of work. The
sudden hit of romantic tragedy seems so surreal that I even lost sleep
at that night.
The story and casting were very subtle, attracting but depressing in
general, a typical Eileen Chang's writing style. Being a little woman
with sophisticated observation of life, I always admires her capture
of every single details of feeling of ordinary women, mundane but each
unique in their own way.
Interestingly enough, one of my girl companies asked "do you think she
did it simply because of that ring?" I was surprised how superficial
this question was because the answer is a definite no! Nothing could
blind women than love. Women are rather different species than men
who can totally be controlled by emotions and sacrifice for them. Men
tend to have more biological desires (or being controlled by lower
part of body) hence ostensibly looked sensible. (No offence to my
male friends please )
The sex part was inevitably striking most people's attention, which
might have dragged 80% of audiences to cinema with 80 bucks out of
pockets at the first place. However, personally I think it was
overrated. Firstly, although it was quite real, watching a twisted sex
of sadism wasn't really enjoyable. Second, Tony Leung seems desperate
for winning some international prize by astonishingly exposing so
much. A funny episode off the stage was that a westerner man sitting
beside me has always folded his legs at every time intimacy parts went
on. Well at least he is a normal guy I guess .
Not sure if you had seen a full version of that movie. It would be
nearly 3 hours in length. Hope that it won't be stupidly cut into a
"cleaner" edition. Without the sex part, you won't observe "Mr. Yi's"
desperation, perversion, fear of intimacy, and being unable to trust
anybody... As for the leading female role, there seemed not much
underneath implication from Wang Jia Zhi's acting.
王刚
Nov 25, 2007, 11:55:12 PM11/25/07
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[A funny episode off the stage was that a westerner man sitting beside me
has always folded his legs at every time intimacy parts went on. Well at
Haha , really it's funny, I wonder the guy folds his legs because the movie
or because the young girl next to him.
No offence to my female friend in HK. Sexy is not a sin
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