New Ang Lee Film Slapped With NC-17 Rating

Ang Lee's last film, "Brokeback Mountain," was one of the first American movies with a love story between two men at its center. Apparently, Lee (who won an Oscar for his work on that movie) hasn't had his fill of "daring," "shocking" material. His new (Chinese-language) movie, "Lust, Caution," has been slapped with the dreaded NC-17 rating by the MPAA. This rating bars anyone under the age of 17 from even seeing the film, and some theaters refuse to show movies with this rating at all -- in short, the rating destroys a movie's chances of doing big box-office in this country. The film's producers, however, claim they will not contest the rating, since they don't want to end up making the sort of compromise which would alter the final cut. As usual, the NC-17 rating has been bestowed due to explicit sex (rather than explicit violence, which almost never gets anything beyond an R rating).