I found out that the appraisal of "Lust, Caution" wasn't high, only got B+ on some film review sites. I thought one of the main reason was that they didn't know the story very well. Therefore, I was trying to write a short introduction with my awful English.
【色,戒】
The background was in 1938, Shang Hai, a group of students planed to assassinate a traitor. They've heard the traitor, Mr. Yi was a womanizer, so they decided to let one of their classmates, Jia-zhi Wang to seduce him. Sadly, addtion to achieve their goal, Jia Zhi even sacrificed her virginity to one of her classmate. Jia-zhi played a merchant's wife and play mah-jong with Mrs. Yi, and then trying to close Mr. Yi...Unfortunately, their plan was over cuz Mr. Yi plan to leave Shang Hai. After that, Jia-zhi had never kept in touch with her classmates.
Three years passed, one day, one of her classmates, Mr. Kuang met Jia-zhi in the steet and told her that he needed her to seduce Mr. Yi again. The reason Jia-zhi had accepted to sacrifice herfelf was she liked Mr. Kuang. But now, everything changed. Even the remantic feelings gone, Jia-zhi still agreed to help him again. This time, she succeed to live in Mr. Yi's house. When she became Mr. Yi's ladylover, she found Mr. Yi truly loved her...
Director:Ang Lee
Story :Eileen Chang
Actors :Tony Leung
Chiu Wai
Joan Chen
If you've seen this movie,
It's always welcome to discuss it with me :)