Caution, Misdirection
While we’re on the topic of alternate editions, I ask you to please avoid the recently released Lust, Caution DVD that promises the “R-Rated Version of the Film Not Seen in Theatres”. That phrasing implies that scintillating footage has been added, when it is actually the opposite. The R-rated Lust, Caution wasn’t seen in theatres because producer James Schamus and director Ang Lee had the stones to tell the MPAA where they could go with their R-rating and took the NC-17 instead, releasing Lust, Caution with all footage intact. The R-rated version (in fairness, I haven’t seen this cut) most likely abbreviates very intense sex scenes that magnify the story considerably. See the film, it’s a very good one, but see the naughty version that was available in theatres.
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