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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Lust, Caution (2007), a WW2 thriller-romance about a Chinese spy hired to assassinate a Japanese occupation official. To do so, she infiltrates his inner circle and seduces him, which is all well and good, but what happens when she starts getting the hots for him for real? Uh-oh. The intrigue keeps escalating from there. Director is Ang Lee, the renowned auteur behind Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and, uhh, Hulk (2003), among others. This is one of the highest-rated Chinese films on Letterboxd, so let’s check it out.

After that is The Castle (1997), an Australian comedy about a typical working-class Australian family threatened with eviction from their property to make room for a new airport annex. The family lawyers them and then must navigate the faricial Aussie legal system to protect their home from capitalist encroachment. The Maoist uprising, etc. This is the best-known and best-regarded film of director Rob Sitch, and is considered a beloved classic classic in Australian, so we’ll give it a whirl.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Lust, Caution: https://letterboxd.com/film/lust-caution/
• The Castle: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-castle-1997/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Lust, Caution: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/843280
• The Castle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/parentalguide/

CWs for Lust, Caution:

• Sexual assault: consent during the movie’s several sex scenes may charitably be called dubious, as the line between sex-as-weapon and sex-as-desire is a central theme.
• Blood and gore.
• Stabbing.
• Misogyny.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Someone is hysically restrained.
• Torture.
• Cheating.
• Mannequins.
• Sad ending.

CWs for The Castle:

• Profanity.
• Sexual innuendos.
• Alcohol.
• Poverty.
• Capitalism.

Links to movies:

• Lust, Caution: https://tankie.tube/w/fQqsAvMFTHnU13opeBwtrc
• The Castle: https://tankie.tube/w/uUEyrPrRjuP2fA2pTxQmRs