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Silk

Taiwan 2006
produced by
Tu Ming, Huang Chih-ming (executive), Huang Chin-Wen (executive) for Unit 9 Pictures, CMC Entertainment
directed by Su Chao-Bin
starring Chang Chen, Lam Kar Yan, Yosuke Eguchi, Chang Chun-Ning, Chen Bo-lin, Barbie Hsu, Kevin S. Smith
written by Su Chao-Bin, music by Peter Kam, special effects by Menfond Electronic Art and Computer Design

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Crippled Hashimoto (Yosuke Eguchi) leads a team of scientists to investigate ghosts as such and the question what turns some people into ghosts in particular., and with a material called Menger Sponge, they have even captured the spirit of a little boy - a spirit that is dangerous though as he, when not kept at bay by the Menger Sponge, kills everyone who looks into his eyes, and eventually he kills one of Hashimoto's team (Barbie Hsu), too.

Why does Hashimoto do all of this though ?

Because he figures if he becomes a ghost he can leave his crippled body and lead a happier ... er, life.

Eventually, Hashimoto introduces a new addition to the team, Tung (Chang Chen), a cop with exceptional eyesight who is supposed to help them find what they have overlooked (in the literal sense of the word). Soon enough, Tung really does come up with something, a strand of silk emmananting from the child leading to god knows where, and Hashimoto's team decides to release the spirit of the boy (which only those can see whose eyes are covered with Menger Sponge, by the way), and eventually, Tung finds out the story of the boy, who threw himself out of a window in his school, and apparently was then strangled by his mother. So is it hatred that kept the boy on earth ?

Eventually, Hashimoto's lab is raided, and he sucks up the spirit in a large piece of Menger Sponge and takes it with him - which gives him extra powers like the power to walk normally or even defy gravity. But captivating the boy inthe piece of Menger Sponge kills his mother - who has been on the other end of the silk thread - and reawakens her as a spirit, and she's much more vengeful than her son has ever seen, and soon has killed most of Hashimoto's team.

Hashimoto in the meantime has found the body of the boy - right at the center of the National Magnetic Center ... so he figures it must be magnetism that has turned the boy into a spirit, and he shoots himself right there to come back in spirit form.

Meanwhile, Tung learns the whole story of the boy. He survived the jump out of the school window but was left forever handicapped, and thus he eventually asked his mother to kill him, which she did out of love, not out of hate, and love was what kept the boy on earth, and what made his mother looking for him, and once they find each other, they both vanish.

Thing is, that knowledge comes too late for Hashimoto, who is an old cynic who has no love for anything (let alone anyone) to hold him back on earth, and magnetism has absolutely nothing to do with the spirit world.

 


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On close inspection, the story of Silk is of course rather stupid and not very believable even in the context of the horror genre. But in its own context, the story actually works, helped of course by a decent directorial job. And garnered with a few well-placed shocks, suspense scenes and unexpected plottwists, Silk actually makes a good piece of horror cinema. Only thing: It would have been even more effective with a few less CGI effects that distract from the actual storyline, but maybe that's just me.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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