Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Page #4

Synopsis: In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong's descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or risk losing one another forever.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Wayne Wang
Production: Fox Searchlight
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
21%
PG-13
Year:
2011
120 min
$1,346,503
Website
149 Views


This lady has some business here.

Please be quick.

Thank you.

The end of this story...

...is about things of the heart

that will never change.

- Madam.

- What is wrong, child?

My mother is very sick.

She calls for you in her sleep.

But she has other sisters.

She has no other sisters.

She misled you.

She has never had another laotong.

For 10 years, she was only their teacher.

She has only one sister of the heart.

You have to see her one last time.

I beg you.

I waited for you.

Madam,

I brought you some things from home.

I am sorry.

I knew you could not want me

to destroy the fan.

When Lily returned

home after Snow Flower's funeral...

...she looked at the fan and could not

allow things to end as they had.

So she opened a new panel...

...dipped her brush,

and wrote a final inscription.

The world is always changing.

Every day it's changing.

Everything in life is changing.

We have to look inside ourselves

to find what stays the same...

...such as loyalty...

...our shared history...

...and love for each other.

In them, the truth of the past lives on.

Now I understand Lily's last inscription

for Snow Flower...

...and what it means for Sophia and me.

My entire life, I have longed for love.

I always thought I understood it...

...but now I see, with shame and sorrow...

...that I understand nothing

of deep-hearted love.

The love between sisters.

So many years without you.

This is my penance.

If you will come back to me...

...I will never leave you.

Never again.

And we will be sisters for 10,000 years.

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