Silk

Genre: Action, Supernatural
Starring: Chang Chen, Yosuke Eguchi, Karena Lam, Barbie Hsu, Chen Po-Lin
Release year: 2006
Language: Chinese - Taiwanese
Subtitle: English

SYNOPSIS:
Armed with a newly invented material called the Menger Sponge, a team of scientists led by Hashimoto captures the energy of a ghost child.

In an effort to learn about the ghost's past, they enlist the help of special agent Ye, a member of the JCCU (Joint Crime Crackdown Unit) with an extraordinarily gifted eyesight. Reluctant at first, Ye himself haunted by guilt, struggling from within on how to let his own dying mother go, accepts the assignment, perhaps, to seek salvation from what the ghost child may reveal about life, and life after death. Ye sees a single strand of silk connected from the ghost to a mysterious power. Tracking the strand of silk, Ye learns the horrifying truth of the child's death. Fearing that the ghost child is dangerous, the team decides to isolate the ghost but in doing so they unknowingly unleashed the mysterious source on the other end of the silk strand, a much more powerful and ferocious energy.



RATING: 9/10
USER RATING:

REVIEW:
" The fright factors in this movie are a mixed bag. There are some intense moments where this reviewer’s pulse raced, often becoming enthralled with the character’s risky encounters with ghouls. Then, there are some moments where it just felt too comical: a ghost coming out from a beef noodle bowl? That scene just doesn’t cut it as a decent frightful moment at all and felt like a lame spoof of Ringu (The Ring). It also seems that after the classic Japanese supernatural horror, Ringu, all victims of Asian supernatural horrors have to die with the same contorted look on the face that is just getting tiresome.

The technology of “Menger Sponge” which is used in this film to trap the ghost child’s energy is not extremely impressive nor does the film delve too much into any form of its operation. In ways, it felt like it’s a homage to the good old days of Hong Kong Vampire flicks that uses talisman and black dog blood to tell its spooky tale. For the main purpose of “Menger Sponge” in Silk, it is to bridge the communication and interaction between the humans and the netherworld to tell a tale of “what if?” in heartwarming proportion (that is if your heart does not cease from operation after all those intense moments)

Besides the emotional tale of the ghouls, the subplot of Detective Ye, his unconscious mom who is dying and estranged old love, brews into satisfying fruition of touching moments between lovers and family members at the climactic ends. There are times where we wish to communicate with the departed but there is simply no way of doing it in reality. Only in movies are we offered a peek of what could be the last possible message that the recent departed wants to say.

In the beginning of this year, I caught a Taiwanese supernatural horror, The Heirloom which bored me to tears. I had almost written all Asian supernatural horror off until Chang Chen’s Silk came along and resuscitated my faith in Taiwanese films. While Silk handlings of fright moments were uneven at times, the heart of the story and the way it was delivered kept me engaged through all. "

Source: MovieXclusive

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