| Silk | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Su Chao-Bin |
| Written by | Su Chao-Bin |
| Starring | Chang Chen Chun-Ning Chang Wilson Chen Yosuke Eguchi Barbie Hsu Karena Lam |
| Distributed by | CMC Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | September 28, 2006 (Hong Kong) |
| Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Box office | $854,535 |
Silk (Gui si) is a 2006 Taiwanese horror film directed by Su Chao-Bin. It was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Contents |
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 a 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 give up their research as it seems worthless and is costly to the 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. It is further revealed that the walls of the room of the captured ghost are packed with thousands of such cubes to obstruct the movement of the ghost boy.
The inclusion of a police officer angers one of the teammates who decides to take revenge on the team. She steps into the room of the captured ghost and sprays a energy synchronizer which allows her to capture the ghost inside her pocket. The team which arrives later is shocked at the missing ghost and demands she 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 the window and trying to walk through a 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 a dead body and conclude that he was strangled to death by his own mother. This produced a strong hate in him which has made his soul unstable. Furthermore 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 afterwards. 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 boy's mother to take revenge on all the people 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.
In 2009, it was revealed that Gold Circle Films was looking to develop an American remake of Silk. [2]