At the end, did she know...
that by warning the General she would get herself and her friends killed?
shareYeah, I guess it was the diamond ring though. 'Ooh, he bought me this lovely ring'. Typical woman :)
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No, typical men's response "she was a golddiger". Not the case. She knew that it would get her and her friends killed, but she loved him and she sacrificed herself instead of getting him killed because that's what you do when your in love Nick2254. She could have run, she had the chance, but she'd be without him. And he could never live with her alive knowing she was the one person who got so close to him. So the ending with her dying and him sitting on her bed is bittersweet. He loves her and she loves him, but he had to kill her.
"Look lady I don't come down to where you work and slap the d!ck out of your mouth".
Actually she isn't instrumental in outing her fellow conspirators/freedom fighters. The police boss tells Yee his men had kept the group under watch for some time, and they were not actually caught while standing outside the house and preparing to strike. She does warn Yee, but she doesn't volunteer any information about the scheme. Well, she knows she's blowing the success of the plot, but she doesn't really engineer their being caught. Once she realizes that her friends have been taken she opts not to swallow her suicide pill; at that point she knows that she's lost it and that she will be executed too at the hands of Yee's men.
She's caught in a sort of schizoid tension between two different personas, Wang and Mrs.Mai, and it turns out that Yee is also caught in a hopeless, murderous cleft between what he wanted to be and the part he has to play, which he is offered by the current conditions. I think there's more than a sprinkle of influence here from In the Mood for Love.
"Richelieu's men are notorious for their complete lack of taste."
She and her friends were already condemned. The ironic thing is that his subordinates already knew she was to kill him, yet they did nothing to protect him, and the only person who risked (and lost) her life for him was the one in charge of killing him.
there are theories, (in chinese forum), that the japanese were suspicious of Yee, and also that Yee is a double/triple spy (CCP, KMT, JAP).
those theories actually try to tie up other loopholes as well (eg, who took the guns)
I can understand that; the way Yee is pictured - his character, not his actions - he could have turned out a double/triple agent. Not sure the film supports it, but it's clearly possible.
At the audition I had to karaoke to "Smoke On The Water". I was 45. A very lonely experience.
In the end,Mak sufferred from Stockholm Syndrome which made her save Mr Yee at the end of the film. IT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF HER BEING A WOMAN BUT DUE TO HER PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKE-UP AS A WOMAN.
First of all,we have to realize that Mak isn't a professional spy.She is a naive college student whose view of the world is not within the context of the people that she deals with when socializing with the Japanese collaborators while doing her work for the resistance.Also,it was clear in the film that she lacks a father figure as her dad left for England and got remarried while her mother died when she was very young. She found a father figure in Mr. Yee. Aside from that,Mak lacks experience in intimacy which can deepen a relationship with certain individuals. Mr.Yee was able to provide this to her through passionate (and rough) sex. That is why the sex scenes were important to demonstrate this to the audience. Finally,she was drawn to Mr Yee due to the latter's charm - a characteristic of people who rise to political ranks and find success in dealing with others in the government despite their actions of cruelties towards their countrymen. The ring that was given to her was the epitome of that evil man's charm that did overcome Mak's emotions.