Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Silk 詭絲

Released Year: 2006
Directed by 蘇照彬 Zhao-Bin Su

Casted by:
張震 Chang Chen as 葉起東 Dong
江口洋介 Yosuke Eguchi as 橋本良晴 Ching
林嘉欣 Karena Lam as 杜家維 Wei
陳冠伯 Guan-Bo Chen as 陳耀西(小孩) The ghost kid
徐熙媛 Barbie Hsu as 蘇原 Yuan
萬芳 Wan Fang as 鄭純 Chun
陳柏霖 Wilson Chen as 守仁 Ren
張鈞甯 Chun-Ning Chang as 和美 Mei
馬之秦 Zhi-Tai Ma as 葉啟東母親 Dong's mother
Story:
In Taipei, a team of ghost hunters pay a freelance camera man to photograph places looking for paranormal activity. From the sounds of things, previous attempts have been unsuccessful. The camera man is taking his pictures and this time captures a picture of a boy in a seemingly empty room. The team of ghost hunters are thrilled and take it upon themselves to further investigate.

They bring a police officer, a sharp shooter and a lip reader for further help in their investigation for further study of Ghost. The officer has a sick mother who is in the state of coma and has decaying body. Though the officer refuses to offer help in the initial stages, he accepts the case due to curiosity. On the other side the director of this entire program calls the team to pack their research as it seems to prove worthless and costly to Japanese government. The team reveals a magnetic cube which can split itself and capture energy of any form. Its capacity to hold energy is such that it can withstand the force of gravity and float in air. The director obviously agrees to offer further support. Its further revealed that the walls of the room of the captured ghost is packed with such thousands of cube to obstruct the movement of ghost boy.

The inclusion of police officer angers one of teammate who decides to take revenge from the team. She steps into the room of captured ghost and sprays a energy synchronizer which allows her to capture the ghost inside her pocket. The team which arrives later is shocked of the missing ghost and demands her to tell the truth. In the mean time ,the ghost escapes from her pocket and kills her. Her soul appears for a short span of time and vanishes. It will be quite astonishing as to why the soul of the boy is still persisting.

Further observation reveals that the captured ghost follows a fixed pattern of activities like staring out of window and trying to walk through door at particular time. This causes the team to set the ghost boy free into the open world to trace his activities. The police officer follows the boy to his school which apparently was the place of his suicide. The ghost boy was also found to leave a trace of silk strands along his foot steps.

Investigation in school revels that the place and cause of his death. They follow it to dead body and conclude the he was strangled to death by his own mother. This urged a strong hate in him which has made his soul to become unstable. Further the body of this dead boy is found to be in the center of a nuclear fusion reactor whose magnetic flux is also found to have cause his unstable soul.

The police officer doubts a relation between the ghost boy and the silk strands .He follows the silk strands which leads him to a unwell women in an hospital, who dies shortly after sometime. On the other side the director issues orders to seize the project which angers the team leader. The team leaders captures the soul of the boy in magnetic cube and leaves without a trace. This causes the soul of the boys mother to take revenge on all the persons involved in the team. She starts killing all those involved in the team.

The movie ends up in a very unusual way where the team leader sets the ghost boy free and kills himself in the same spot as of the boy so that he can turn into a ghost and the police officer almost killed by the ghost of boy's mother is brought to life by the ghost boy.
L² Scored: 5.5/10

L² Comment:
I remember all my coursemates kept on tell me how good the movie is when it is on the cinema. But when i watch it in the cinema that time, its still ok, but not as good as what has been told. The whole movie dont seems that scary as what has been show in the trailer. Maybe the trailer has shown all it has on the horror part, which is kinda dissapointing.

After a few years and re-watching this film, i found that the whole movie is kinda complicated about the connection of ghost with humans. And watching the subtitles of Yosuke Eguchi is quite tiring too~ lol. But its a good try for Su Zhao Bin to shot this kind of film, hope to see more from him soon.

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