Abstract:

Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee in 2007 left a strong mark in the history of Chinese cinema as well as cinematic arts per se. Adapted from Eileen Chang’s novel of the same name, the film won many titles including the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and seven awards from the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. Even up to now it has remained a hot topic due to its exaggerated size in depicting “lust”. From the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, the paper revisits Ang Lee's Lust, Caution ten years later,aiming to point out that the three grand sexual scenes that Ang Lee paid greatest attention to and a great price for as well, were nothing but“destructive redundancy”.
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