9 Minutes of Sex and Gore

Is the director's cut of Lust, Caution worth seeing?

THE NC-16 version released last month was 148 minutes long. Any individual resourceful enough to check IMDB would have known that the movie’s full running time was 157 minutes.

So where did the other nine minutes go? Wasn’t most of the talk surrounding Ang Lee’s latest masterpiece about supposedly controversial sex scenes that some said bordered on being pornographic? Caution was definitely exercised with the censored release.

So after much flak that characterized an earlier Ang Lee-tamed (the director himself did the edits, hence, this too was an ‘original’) version of Lust, Caution, the Singapore’s movie goers above 21 years of age can finally view the ‘full-uncut’ version of the film – all 157 minutes.

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