色，戒 - Lust Caution. (2007)

Sonia came over to KL to bug us. LOL. Had lots of fun at Bukit Bintang and watching Sonia suffer with heels. XD *saddist* LOL. Lecka Lecka at Bukit Bintang is a really nice place to sit and chill out. The dark atmosphere, the music and the fruity Shisha scent... LOL. It's like clubbing without a dance floor and not-so-loud music and ice cream.

Hahaha.

We headed to Midvalley the next day to send her off. We were supposed to shop but didn't have time coz she's going to leave at 1. :(

We were convinced Wang Leehom will look absolutely hot on big screen cinema so yes. We waited until 5.30 to watch the show at TGV in Pyramid.

Had viet food in between. We kinda wondered why didn't we stay back at Mid Valley to do all these? Wouldn't Lee Hom look hotter on MV screens? =P

It was quite freaky when we sat down, we noticed the people who were in this theater were either married or couples. But yeah. We weren't alone. There were 2 other Lee Hom fangirls at the lower deck... Phew.

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Very Artsy. Very historical - Aesthetics.

The movie lasted pretty long. (2 hours-ish). And very minimal bits of English were spoken. The whole movie was mostly in cheem Mandarin, bits of Shanghainese, Cantonese and it seems like Lee Hom has lost the accent. The set is super! The way they depict Shanghai/Hong Kong during the WW-II were really super.

I liked the chemistry between the cast. I'm not only saying Lee Hom, they all did well. Tony Leung is already as good as he is. Lee Hom improved since his last movie. Wei Tang's probably like the Superwoman! She's new and she did really well in her portrayal of her character.

I was looking through some stuff on the net, some Scenes were shot in Penang.

I won't say how it ended, but at the end of the show I left the cinema feeling rather frustrated. I so did not like the ending. But of course, it's based on a novel and all so yeah. Hopefully an English edition comes out.

They were THIS close to killing off that traitor! Okay. did they fall for each other or something? I was like, WTH happened there?!!

It's rated 18-PL but I felt it's censored so much until like it's rated almost U. Nothing explicit was shown. So for people who want to watch it but don't dare to watch it, it's really subtle lah.

There's no violent scene of some jap soldier blowing some suspects head off. I think the movie lacks that. We know the Tony Leung's character, Yi, is a traitor and he works in 'that' kind of environment it's kind of ironic he doesn't shoot anybody.

Then again, 15 minutes was cut so it could've been in those 15 minutes lah.

I didn't waste my time watching this. It did bring us all back to a time once when Chinese were really Chinese.

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Random.

"If you want to continue living a lie,

Go.

But remember, when reality hits you, it hits you hard."

I'm so going to use that at my Siggy.