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The ending and my take on it ***Spoilers*****


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So the film built up a good case as to why she should hate this vile man.
I mean she couldn't wait for the resistance fighters to come in and blow off his head while they were making love.

Then suddenly, he gave her bling and that shiny diamond completely changes her mind and suddenly she is in love? What the Hell!!!!!!

Few things come to mind:

1) The ending serves as an example of how superficial and materialistic women are by nature; willing to sell out their virtuous beliefs and ideology even for a abusive and dubious relationship. She sold out the lives of her friends for goodness sake. We see this in modern society all the time; women marrying for money, only dating men with a fat wallet. I'm sorry but her facial expression when she saw that diamond was not convincing of her a woman who fell in love with the man or the relationship itself but a woman who fell in love with wealth and status.

2) The writer was trying to make the point that she fell in love with this vile person. But the film did a poor job of showing the progression from hate to love.
All I see was a woman enamored by the shiny diamond.

3) As the title implies, the main character had for a brief lapse in judgment and allowed her lust/love to get the best of her. When it was said and done, she realized it was too late and her action was indeed irrational.

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Bottom line: she loved the cock. Don't underestimate the power a man can have over a woman when he satisfies her completely.

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"Don't underestimate the power a man can have over a woman when he satisfies her completely."

There's no such thing as a satisfied woman. Now, if you change the words man and woman around, he to she, and her to him, then you'd have it right.

mea-12

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mea-12, they showed him licking her. many women are satisfied this way alone.

she sure looked happy over and over while tony leung was working it. i think the title agrees with the idea that total satisfaction can cause confused emotions, hence the "caution" needed. she very well may have thought what she felt was love though it was really satisfaction. then when she got that huge ring, that same feeling welled up and she lost her mind.

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Just saw the movie last night and have had the chance to sleep on it. My thought regarding the ending is that both the lead characters wound up wanting what wasn't really there. They found more happiness in their dysfunctional, pretend lives together than they were able to extract from their real lives. Note the lack of a physical relationship between the husband and wife, also note the bland life of the female lead. I think especially so for the girl. In her life as a spy, she had power, wealth, love and respect, none of which she had in her real life. Just an observation.

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I can sympatize with her. I hated him throughout the entire movie as well. When I saw him, I was digusted. But the scene in the ring shop changed my feelings towards him. As a few posters have alredy stated this is the most pivotal scene not because he buys her the ring, but because this is the first time in the movie that we see that he actually loves her. You have to look past the ring. Throughout the movie he treats her pretty badly but then something changes, you can actually feel their love for each other.

The ending however I didn't care for but this movie was realism (liked the Ibsen reference) not romanticism so it's to be expected. Her buddies I can't say I really felt for them, they clearly used her and she seemed like the most loyal, she put herself throuhg a lot for their cause. Granted we didn't get to see their doing in all of it, but as the viewer it's easier to be on her side.


I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

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I don't think she hated him at all. I know they have the whole conversation where she's keeps telling him that she hates him, but I think it's her saying one thing and meaning another. She hates him because she misses him so much and wants to be with him. Not because she actually hates him. And when he says so do you hate me now and she says no (or something like that) it's because he's home. At least that's my take on the situation. : )

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To me, I never saw her as expecting him to save her. She was quite resigned to the fact after she left, I felt. As for her comrades, I was always under the impression they had been captured before the incident, or sometime during anyway. Yee's subordinate told him they had known of the group for quite some time, but were holding back because of Yee's relationship. It was all inevitable.

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it's not that she loved him.
it's that she saw that he loved her.

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Our female lead is also suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

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