Erotic Movie: Lust, Caution

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2.06.2012 | By: A. B.

Lust, Caution, the controversial winner of the festival in Venice, actually doesn’t offer what you would expect.

The movie Lust, Caution caused a great stir because of its explicit scenes.

This pathologic and very passionate love story will undoubtedly remind you of many similar movies.

Forbidden love between an important politician and a member of the resistance.

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An already seen pathologic love story

The first and perhaps the most serious reproach when it comes to the movie Lust, Caution is without a doubt that it is too long. 157 minutes is way too long and it seems stretched. The second reproach is a story that has already been seen in similar ways in many other movies, also in the cult movie The Night Porter. You know, the pathologic love story filmed already in 1974 by Liliana Cavani. A Nazi, played by Dirk Bogarde, tortured his captive, Charlotte Rampling, who fell head over heels for him and discovered she was really turned on by the whole thing. The story is also seen in the excellent 2006 movie Black Book, directed by Paul Verhoeven. This movie undoubtedly thrilled us in a much more direct and powerful way.

Forbidden love

Ang Lee, director of Brokeback Mountain, doesn’t really push all the right buttons. This is a totally stereotypical love story, which takes place in an occupied Shanghai, a Chinese city occupied by the Japanese during the Second World War. And here we have mister Yee (Tony Leung) and miss Wong (Wei Tang). He is an important Japanese political figure and she is a member of the Chinese resistance with the assignment of getting close to him, making him crazy and leading him into an ambush at the end. Their relationship is pathological, special and different, almost like in Last Tango in Paris, or, if you wish, in the Korean movie Gojtimal, where the lovers hit one another with planks and smelled one another’s dirty behinds.

Direct and explicit sexual scenes

Lust and Caution is a movie which places a lot of emphasis on explicit sexual scenes and forgets that many movies before this one did it in a much hotter way. This military and espionage love story is full of stereotypes and the explicit sexual scenes are there mostly to cause a stir. A movie that wants to only cause a stir can’t be a good movie and it can’t be a movie that would convince you that the erotic scenes were used only as a part of the story.