In Lust, Caution, Tang Wei and Tony Leung Chiu Wai's "fake play and real work": Is it for artistic dedication?

Since the film Lust, Caution was released, it has won many honors for more than ten years. I simply counted in the encyclopedia, and there are as many as 30 awards with high grade and weight alone. Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Tang Wei won the "Best Actor" and "Best Actress" awards for their outstanding performances in the play.

This film has been widely recognized and praised by the audience. At present, the score of a film is still as high as 8.5 points. However, the film has been released for more than ten years, and it can still cause heated discussion from time to time. In addition to the superb acting skills of the actors and the ingenious expression techniques of the directors, the "fake play is really done" widely circulated between the male and female protagonists has also been talked about by people after dinner.

I saw a famous film critic talk about this today. He said that at the end of the play, both Tang Wei and Tony Leung Chiu Wai were crying in the theater because they "faked", in other words, Tang Wei "dedicated himself to art", and it was precisely because of their "faking" that Lust, Caution was qualitatively sublimated, which made people sincerely admire.

However, some netizens agree with this comment, but more netizens disagree, thinking that the so-called dedication art is just a joke, and dedication to the box office is barely meaningful.

It's been a long time since I first saw Lust Caution. At that time, I was addicted to the ups and downs in the play and didn't notice whether it was a "fake play", so I specially found this film to watch it carefully today. After the release, there are mainly two versions of this film. The version released in Chinese mainland is 145 minutes, and the version released outside Chinese mainland is 158 minutes.

I roughly compared the two versions. In the version of 145 minutes, it's really hard to see if it's a fake play, but the version of 158 minutes is more obvious. There are three scenes in this play, one of which is more obvious than the other.

After reading it, combined with the comments of well-known film critics and the different views of netizens, I fell into deep thinking about "art" and said "fake play is really done" first. There are many "fake scenes and real actions" in TV dramas, such as eating, walking and even more sensitive hugs and kisses. However, this kind of substantive "fake play is really done" can not be accepted by the public, at least it can not be admitted publicly. After all, if you say that the "fake scene is really done" on this occasion is for artistic dedication, then someone will ask you if the shooting occasion needs the "dedication" of the actors more.

Take Lust, Caution as an example. If those clips are art, why are they deleted in a version? But if it is not art, then why can another version be preserved?

So I think whether it is art or not has little to do with everyone's subjective cognition and feelings. For example, some famous paintings in history, some people will feel very holy after reading them, while others will feel ugly after reading them.

On a large scale, it should be related to the cultural concept of the whole society. Different versions in different regions just show that people's overall understanding is different in different social environments. Then this also means that people's overall cognition will be different in different times. Today, we can't accept this, but times have changed.

There is 1000 Hamlet for every 1000 readers, and every audience will have different comments on this film. So do you think the hero and heroine in Lust, Caution are dedicating themselves to art?