LUST, CAUTION
October 15, 2007
Rated: NC-17 Runtime: 158 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
A slow-moving but interesting film. Usually when you see a Mata Hari spy-woman in films, she bursts onto the scene fully formed. Steel nerved, ruthless, infinitely sexually experienced.
This is more about the evolution of her, how she gets to the point where she’s using sex in a spy game.
In 1938 Hong Kong, during the Japanese occupation, a young Chinese woman in college joins a theater group, which turns out to be a rather half-assed resistance cell. They plot to assassinate Chinese collaborators. She poses as a married woman to infiltrate the Chinese collaborator society. But since she’s a virgin, she has one of the resistance fighters take her virginity, so she’ll have some sexual experience to draw upon to play the part of a married woman seeking an affair.
Three years later in 1941 Shanghai, the real resistance movement calls upon her to again serve her country.
It’s a plotline I don’t think you’d see in a Western film: The guy she’s seducing ends up borderline-raping her, but, as it happens, it’s the best sex she’s ever had. And he thinks he’s raping a married woman, but she’s actually a spy setting up his assassination by pretending to be seduced and roleplaying as a married woman, so her reaction to the rape is basically bemusement. And the more they have sex, the less S&M it gets. Certainly the film earns it’s NC-17 rating.
She’s in a dangerous situation where to be caught will mean she gets shot. But the line blurs between pretending to be in love with her hated target, and actually being in love with him.
And the film has a lots and lots and lots of Mahjong in it.
Popularity: 9% [?]
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