Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
English
2011, 120 minutes
3 Stars
Rainy Day read the book years ago and loved it. She read it twice, and avoided the movie for a long time. If you haven't read the book, you will probably like this, but it introduces a whole second story line, and skips between the modern storyline and the old story line. Why didn't 'They' do two movies? Yes, Rainy Day cried at the end—she's a sucker for sad and happy, but she remains totally perplexed as to why someone would take such a beautiful book and screw it up by cutting more than half the story, and then jumping forth and back to modern Shanghai. A bit like going from Puccini to Metalica at somewhat random intervals. Both stories are, well, tender, and in Rainy Day's opinion, both stories deserve their own movie!
For the official trailer, click here. There are more trailers online, merely Google the title.
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