Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

dbborroughs To be honest I picked this Chinese film up because of the case. Its a weird tie closed case with Tattoos and post cards bound inside of it. I like odd box sets, especially Asian ones, which is why I picked this up. Its been sitting on myself since I got it two years or so ago. Unsure of what to watch while I sorted papers I pulled this off the shelf and gave it a go.The plot centers around a girl who runs a racy web cam site, her grandmother, one of the men watching her (he's cop trying to bust her), a kid who finds power in tattoos, a lovely tattoo artist and her brother. The girl is attracted to the tattoo artist and vice versa but because of complications and plot that is much too complicated to explain simply, things are not as easy as you might think.(nor as complicated as I'm making it out to be) I really liked this film. It has any number of very real characters that worm their way into your heart. This is an odd film at times in that it plays with the notion of why we remember and how we remember and what is real. Why do you remember what you remember? Are you sure that you really remember everything? This film noodles with the ideas at times with memories repeated differently. There are several characters who's memory is failing and we see how that effects those around them.The film also skirts around how we perceive people on line, as the cop falls for the girl and the girl isn't sure who is telling her they love her.There is something about the characters that made it all real. I mean how can you not help but love a film that shows the dangers of being a web-cam girl when you live at home with your grandmother.I need to say I loved how the romance between the characters is handled as something that just sort of was. The fact that its two women isn't really the point, its that its two people. Forgive me I'm tired of films that are same sex romance and they beat you over the head with it to the point that you wonder if its about anything other than being gay or lesbian. This is about the people.My only real complaint with the film is that the layers of memory and stories and reality kind of reach a breaking point about an hour and twenty minutes in. Somewhere about that time the film seems to be juggling way too many balls and I began to lose track of what was happening. Its a minor flaw because by that time the characters have built up enough good will it just carries you to the end.I think its worth a look, and even a repeat viewing.

lastliberal Jade (Rainie Yang) has a porn web-blog and is remembering her first love after she runs into her at a tattoo parlor. Takeko (Isabella Leong - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Eye 3) has a tattoo that Jade wants. More importantly, Jade wants Takeko to remember her. Takeko wants to forget because of trauma that occurred when the two of them were together many years previous.It is not a girl-on-girl story, it is just a love story with two women, about obsession and trauma, with tattoos as the tie. One doesn't have to get into philosophy to understand love and pain. Just sit back and enjoy.It was an incredibly beautifully shot film with a great score and two great actors that made it worthwhile.

countymd The Spider Lilies has a deep content. It talks about how much people can remember the past and continue to pursue it. Leong is trapped in what happened in the past whereas Yeung is also trapped by her own past. The fate brought these 2 together and helped each other to build their future together from the past they shared. The story is strong but the acting is kind of weak. Not much chemistry between these two. There is not much going on when they get intimate with each other. It is not convincing the two share the same passion. I guess that is the major drawback in the film. It was sweet and bitter when the film showed their past. There is actually more emotion involved and more convincing with their past. Overall, it is a nice movie to watch.

JW CHIANG G/SRAT strongly recommends a new Taiwan lesbian (nutongzhi) film "Spider Lilies". This film will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival February 11, 2007. We hope you will encourage any friends who might be in Berlin to attend the premiere. This is Taiwan's lesbian director Zero Chou's new film. It portrays the love of and between two lesbians, evoking the hopes and hurts of everyone. It is a film remarkable in its fearless, unwavering representation of lesbian emotions while plumbing the depths of everyday lives. The film is further marked by the director's unpretentious concern for people on the margins of society and her humane yet piercing perspective on life.Spider Lilies (2007) – Do as you desire Reviewed by G/SRAT Spider lily is a flower that grows along the path to the gates of hell; it is a tattoo; it is a way of remembering and forgetting; it registers varied experiences of love and trauma.Everyday rituals are a way of du. Du is crossing over the river to the other side; it is also crossing through life to death and one's next life, over and over again. Storytelling through creative ritual action works through suffering that cannot otherwise be overcome (either in remembering or forgetting) in life. The film shows us how ritual storytelling and actions in different forms – webcam blogging, tattooing, getting tattooed, chatting under the guise of police entrapment – allows for crossing over to the other side, in life, and in death. Spider Lilies helps us see how different people have different ways of doing (or du-ing) – acting out, acting upon and acting through their desires, and therefore crossing through trauma to arrive at the other side, where one is no longer imprisoned within suffering but can live with it, having lived through it. It thus suggests to us ways in which we could do (or du) our own impasses.Everyone is non-normative, and must learn to du/do through different actions/stories. In the world of the film, violence and trauma are banal and special at the same time. No one is exempt from this everyday violence and trauma, no one is normal and without flaw. Through this film, all normative positions are under question. Non-normative roles on the other hand are represented in ways that subvert expectations. In Spider Lilies everyday trauma in two lesbian lives becomes the context and condition of their relation to each other. One of the lesbians obsessively remembers her first love at the early age of nine, and is courageous and forthright in pursuing a sign of love in the form of a spider lily tattoo. The other cannot forget early traumas nor can she remember or begin anything else, but finds a way to tell the stories for which there can be no words in her work as a tattoo artist. The film's view of its characters and their situations is a bit like the blind grandma's, fondly amused, and never judgmental. The tattoo is an allegory of cinema: as ritual that allows a crossing through, as a picture that grows, moves and penetrates its subjects, as a story told through pictures that reflect the past and help bring the future into being.