"Lust, Caution"

I was going to write an imdb.com user comment on this movie, but this young lady wrote exactly what I was going to say, so she saved me the trouble. (A lot of people disliked the movie because it was "boring" or too long" but I disliked it becasue it was misogynistic as hell. It's not that I didn't get the point of the film, I just strenously object to it.)


Pointless & insulting to women
11 January 2009
Author: kyrat from CA, USA
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Group decides to target evil traitor. Innocent girl forced to seduce him. He violently rapes her (which we are forced to watch). He's shown to be a sadisitic control freak, treats her like a whore, she tells how he f*cks her until she bleeds and uses rough sex to dominate her.

She does not want to continue in her act - wants the assassination done with. You see her SUFFERING through the (ANYTHING BUT erotic!) sex by staring at a gun she could use to kill him. Then suddenly evil bad guy buys her a GIANT SHINY DIAMOND.... and apparently that overcomes all patriotism, pride or self-esteem... so she tells him to run away. (we we supposed to believe she loved him???? Or was it really because it was a HUGE DIAMOND? Or did he finally just break her?) Evil bad guy escapes being killed and then rounds up all the conspirators in the group and they all die (including her). The end.



So what exactly was the point of those 2.5 hours? We watched this poor woman whose family didn't want her & whose friends only used her - have sex and play mahojng and that's pretty much it. I expected much better from a great director, great actors and even the movie had great potential!