I been a huge fan of Asian films, specially when portrait the history of china from a female point of view. I can mention films such as "The Scent of a Green Papaya", Raise the Red Lantern" or Three Times a beautiful Korean film that is going to be the perfect example to relate to Snow Flower and The Secret Fan.

The movie is about two woman who become friends/sisters in the ancient china, is called "Laotong" . This process takes place in a story inside the story. On the characters is an aspiring writer who suffer an accident, her laotong discover the manuscript of the book with the same film title, and decide to find out the origin of the crisis who leads to this accident.

The inner story are the same actors playing ancient friends/sisters laotong. Unfortunately the films lacks of connection. First of all the film is spoken in English and Cantonese. But You miss that Asian vibe when they don't speak on their native language. You end up thinking that the Chinese is an accessory language. Also the movie feels like an Asian soap opera, there is no power on the story, is very lame and flat.

There is a lack of connection with every aspects of the character. During the film they tried to use all this back and forth, from a historical point of view, from ancient early 20 century to our recent time similar on the film "Three Times" but with the manicurist that one of the characters is reading. It doesn't work and you get lost in details, missing the real idea of the plot.