英文摘要 |
After the movie "Lust∣Caution" was released, two schools of scholars have tried to explain the significances of this film, one by the Puzzle-Out-Obscure-Meanings approach and the other by the autobiographic approach. One school of scholars investigate the relation between the story and the real assassination in Shanghai spy circles in 1943. Another school of scholars inquire into the relation between the plot of this film and Eileen Chang's own love affairs. However, I will try to explain the aesthetic significance of "Lust∣Caution" by Bataille's theory of Eroticism. Bataille believed that "death taboo" and "sex taboo" are the intermediaries between "sacred world" and "profane world". Through taboos, human beings can transgress from profane to the sacred world, and eros (lust) is the sacred and mystical inner experience for human beings after transgressing taboos. |