snow flower and the secret fan

Director: wayne wang

Actor: bingbing li,jun ji-hyun,vivian wu,russell wong

Data Published: Fri Jun 24 2011

Genres: Drama,History

Key Words: based on a novel,china,fan,nineteenth century,reversal of fortune

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1541995/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Flower_and_the_Secret_Fan_(film)

Description: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a movie starring Bingbing Li, Jun Ji-Hyun, and Vivian Wu. A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a...

Plot: In nineteenth century China, two girls named Snow Flower (Gianna Jun) and Lily (Li Bing Bing) are forever bonded together as sworn sisters. They are paired as laotong by a matchmaker who is also responsible for arranging their marriages. They are isolated by their families and communicate by writing in a secret sisterly language, Nü shu (a historical practice in China in that period) on a unique Chinese fan that Snow Flower possesses. Meanwhile, in the present day Shanghai, their descendants Sophia Liao and Nina Wei struggle with the intimacy of their own pure and intense childhood friendship. As teenagers, Sophia and Nina were introduced to the idea of laotong, and they signed a traditional laotong contract on the cover of Canto-pop Faye Wong's album Fu Zao (Restless in English). Faye Wong was their favorite singer and their liberated dancing to the "degenerate" sounds of the cheerful refrain "la cha bor" was one of the reasons Sophia's stepmother attempted to separate them. Eventually they are separated but come together again when Sophia falls into a coma after being struck by a taxi while cycling. Reunited at long last, they must come to understand the story of the strong and close ancestral connection hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan or lose one another forever in the process.