"Non-verbal Language": Analysis of the Musical Discourse of the Film Lust, Caution

Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution blends romance, suspense, politics and spy war. Despite its complicated braided storylines, the camera shots, movements dialogues in it are rather simple concise. Music has become a non-verbal discourse through which myriad of unexpressed inner thoughts is subtly conveyed. Its original scores classical compositions created sorrowful, obscure, heavy atmosphere depicted dark, damp, depressing, lustful, chaos hopeless scene colorful orchestration counterpoint technique.