Lust, Caution - NC 16 version - over-rated..!

Watched the hot movie tonight. Good and bad, but I would said it's a bit over-rated..

The actor and actress (Tong Leung + Dong Wei as Mr. Yee + Wang Jiazhi) did all their works in flying colour. Their eye works during their first date were really stunning and stir up the emotion inside the cinema... (people sitting behind even shouted 'OMG'... ;p)

I like the scene which the actress expressed her inner emotion and what she was doing in the 2/F small meeting hut. She was the strongest in the team and really disappointed what she had to follow.



Do they have a choice at all in that era? Once you were in the game, there was no point of return? Indeed, Wang did had a choice when she was in Shanghai, she was starting her new life there...

Wang, blamed Kuang Yumin (Wong Lee-Hom) about what happened in 3 years... The time they could develop, the time they could be together, the time she (could have) sacrificed for him... It was too late 3 years after, everyone got their own part and role to do. All they left were regret, guilt, sorrow, pointlessness and helplessness.I

Was that love between Wang and Mr. Yee in the Jewelery shop? Being Mrs. Mak was possibly the safest place for Wang. The boss even praised her she was the best as she acted like Mrs. Mak other than an agent. She was a good pretender and actor, until the end of the movie.

It was a comedy to see how Mr. Yee left the jewelery shop... too dramatic indeed..? But it's necessary that I would think as it was a run for his life.

The part people gossiped where they cut out in NC 16 (unsuitable for age under 16 in Singapore film class) were the sex and violent scenes? The violence scene was ok which I couldn't tell where they cut it from. The sex scenes, I would think were both the first time of Wang's experience, could play an important part of how Wang felt and experienced. It's sad they cut off in a way that you would see the oddness. but could they still showed it in a way with different techniques other than unnecessary detailed? I couldn't tel until I see the uncut version. But for this version, it's better to title the movie in another name.... like Shanghai Casablanca or Mission impossible..! ;p

The newspaper said it was the film company who did the editing other than the advisory council as the film company wanted more people to watch the movie. But the paper also stated that cutting the film could get a "back lash effect" as audience response to the edited work.

Sounds like a catch 22. Any comment?