Lust, Caution

This has spoilers so don't read it if you think that you're going to watch this movie.

So after getting over my initial disappointment of not seeing Leehom Wang get it on and thinking about the movie in an unbiased way along with some overly enthusiastic Helen comments. I started to sit down an analyze the movie and really think about it.

This character is a woman who for the most part has not lead such a pretty life, her father abandons her, her mother dies, and for the most part she gets somewhat pushed into things by pressure, and infatuation. She never really desires to take a part in these things, but she ends up doing them anyway. Despite this she becomes the lead of every role that she plays. Also because of this she basically is used. She loses her virginity for this cause, and takes sexual pain to further this cause.

For the most part, I believe that the fact that she loses her virginity just for her mission, shows how much of a tool she is. It's something considered to be as precious as a jewel. Not only that but to someone who only fucks whores, it seems like she becomes nothing more than just a whore, someone who is just being used for the sake of furthering the game. To make things worse it is when she leaves that everyone is taken away into the resistance where she has to suffer living a meager life. But is they who desire be part of the resistance, to fight for their country, because it's they who stab Tsao, each and every one almost as though stabbing the man is a rite of initiation, all of them except for Miss Wong. It is all of them who is smuggled away but her, and she is the only one that has to sacrifice her innocence and purity to a whore lover for this. In some ways I believe that she is made out to be worse than a whore..at least they get paid. All she gets is the hope that Kuang will return her affections, and he does it...3 years too late.

But when I think about it..despite her playing all of what she is doing as an act, she slowly begins to fall for Yee. Despite being a rough, brutal man which is shown by his sexual demeanor he really cares for her and I think that this can be seen by the intensity of their love making. He loves her the only way that he knows how, the way he lives his life, and it is harsh. But when he finally starts to show her that he really cares, and that she is not just a whore like everyone else has been treating her she loses it and sacrifices herself and turns in her colleagues to save him.

Just that action alone makes me wonder. How must it feel to be him? To truly love her, through years of separation to open up to her about things that he would never tell anyone else. To allow her into the crevices that he refuses to other people, only to learn that she was a spy. And for her to realize that her mission, is not a man who cares only for himself but cares for her deeply. This fucked up love bond that they have, it would never work despite the fact that I hoped it would. Hey I can dream for a happy ending instead of a depressing realistic one.

The pain that they both suffer, I can only imagine how intense it must be. One to realize that the truth is actually a lie, and the other to realize that a lie has become truth.

Realistic movies about love are painful. This hurt my heart, but it was beautiful.

Poo, now I want to watch more movies like this, but they're bad for me!