mm. i understand and i can tell you i'm quite "old school" too, despite my age ( wich will remain secret and unimportant ) but what i meant is that newness can wear this kind of form. if the screen couldn't display this and other things we don't show or even do in real life, movies would all be filled with people in tuxedos and black hats only ( by the way did you notice the classy style of the actors in "lust caution"? ). what is striking with actors is that they're often on the frontier between real and fake, when they try so hard to make fakeness look real. i've always been a little conservative about life and how i should live it, but when it comes to art, i can appreciate extreme freedom, when it's on good purpose, according to me of course. this could be discussed for ever anyway.
just for the pleasure of changing the topic, i would say that the original soundtrack to wong-kar-wai "in the mood for love" is nice but gets so irritating when you heard the main theme three times already. In the middle of the movie i almost forced myself to stay put on my seat, telling myself " come on it's just music, you can so it.. see? what a beautiful love story as only asians can tell it... wow she's beautiful, and.. hey what's happening? oh nooo here comes the THEME again". it was the most strange experience i had in a cinema.