Starring: Zhang Zhen, Lin Jizxin, Jiangkou Yangjie
Director: Su Zhaobin
Rating: NR
Genre: Horror
An Asian ghost flick without one decent scare in two hours, "Silk" is way too smooth for its own good. Reportedly, at $6.2 million, the most expensive locally-funded movie ever made in Taiwan, tale of a bunch of scientists who manage to capture a tyke ghost boasts impressive f/x but brings nothing new to the genre table. Given the continuing strength of the Asian scare industry, pic seemed a strange choice for a slot in Cannes' Official Selection, and looks to segue rapidly to ancillary, especially in the West.
A team of scientists, led by the crippled Hashimoto (Yosuke Eguchi), have discovered a boy ghost (Chen Kuan-po) in a rundown Taipei apartment block and, using an anti-gravitational device called the Menger Sponge -- a kind of Rubik's Cube with a mind of its own -- have trapped it in a room-cum-lab.To help solve the mystery of who the kid is, Hashimoto recruits local police sharpshooter Ye Chi-tung (Chang Chen), who has exceptional eyesight and also happens to lip-read.
A smidgeon of character conflict is generated early on as Hashimoto's colleague, Su Yuen (Barbie Hsu, barbed), who also fancies the Japanese cripple, resents Ye being hired. When she, in the pic's best sequence, ends up dead after trying to smuggle the ghost out for her own purposes, a lot of air goes out of the film's balloon.With Su out of the way, Ye is free to action his plan of releasing and following the ghost -- which he can see by spraying an aerosol version of the Menger Sponge on his eyes. (Right.) The journey subsequently touches on Ye's troubled personal past as well as impacting his present relationship with flower-shop cutie Du Jia-wei (Karena Lam).
A team of scientists led by Hashimoto has managed to capture the energy of a ghost child, thanks to their newly invented device called Menger Sponge. The child, isolated in an empty flat, moves his lips to words no one understands. Hashimoto enlists special agent Ye Qi-Dong, who is able to read on lips, in order to figure out how this child can shed light on life... and especially life after death...
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