Lust | Caution, a not-so-well-known novel written by Ms. ZhangAiling, has now becomes a rather heated topic, owing to LiAn’s new movie with the same title on which it based on.

Unwilling to be immersed in innumerous and various comments without my own opinion, I finally decided to watch it and found my own say.

Before watching it, I assumed as a matter of course that it is a patriotic movie, as it is about a group of patriotic college students planning some patriotic moves. However, it is not.

And it is also not a movie of the usual kind, because villains haven’t been killed and justice hasn’t been done. It shows the destruction of a woman, who is virtuous, patriotic and innocent, devotes herself to her pure love and dream and finally becomes destructed because of her last consciousness for love.

In my opinion, it has nothing to do with patriotism and politics. It is just a revelation of a woman’s life: her choices, inner struggles and final consequences.

I sympathize with her for her selflessness and determination. She is definitely patriotic and willing to devote anything to her country. That is why she lost her virgin body and why she was so determined to accept this task even when given a pill of poison in case of failure.

I lament her for her innocence and silliness. What she wished is right, but what she did is wrong. Saving a country is not simply killing one person or two. As a student, nothing would be more effective than learning more for her country’s tomorrow need.

And I understand her for her final consciousness for love, or rather softhearted action to the quisling. It is said that women are emotional animals. Even a common greeting will touch her soul. When WangJiazhi told Mr. Yi to go away with tears full of her eyes, it wasn’t because of the huge diamond ring, but Yi’s true love for her.

Anyway, this is a movie worth watching, maybe not once.

   昨晚经不住如潮般评论的撺掇，终于还是看了《色|戒》。
   看完后沉默良久，感想良多。
   第一，对王佳芝的同情：一个单纯的女学生出于对国家单纯的热爱和对理想单纯的追求，最后导致单纯的毁灭。
   第二，对王佳芝的哀叹：因为单纯所以愚蠢。因为愚蠢所以失去。失去了青春、贞节、理想、爱情和生命。
   第三，对王佳芝的理解：善良是她的天性。细微的温暖都能让她情愿选择毁灭而成全别人。
   总的说来，觉得汤唯演得很不错。片子除了略显压抑外，并非一无是处，不乏可圈可点之处。大家不妨去一看究竟，没准有更新更深的感受。