lust, caution

photo credits: wikipedia.com

this is ang lee's latest movie. if you don't know who he is, he's a taiwanese director who broke through hollywood with films like crouching tiger, hidden dragon, brokeback mountain, hulk.

i've heard and seen a lot of bad rap for ang lee's lust, caution, but the one that got me started was this particular one with the hong kong media. the hk media was questioning the main actor, tony leung, about whether or not he was having real sex on the movie set or not. i've always found that the hong kong press has always been a lot more perverted than our american media. perhaps because the hk press is always taking extra careful to find pictures of actors/actresses exposing themselves by accident. it happens, but we move on, where as the hk actor/actress who gets caught will have to explain themselves out of it and apologize...

anyway. i dont think the question to tony leung should have been, "were you having real sex on the set", but it should have been a statement praising ang lee for such great filming that it looks like they're having sex. im happy that ang lee is getting away from that sterotypical hong kong movie where its cutsey and funny with a major lack of substance.

it just really bothers me that the hk media can't just be more mature about it. but i know someone is bound to tell me it's also a cultural thing. [rolls eyes] yes, i know.