Spider Lilies is a Taiwanese film (Taiwan: The other China) about an uptight young woman being seduced by a younger free-spirited girl. Maybe uptight isn't the best way to describe a tattoo artist but Takeko is definitely reserved and afraid of making an emotional connection, especially with another girl (why yes, that can be linked back to a traumatic event from her youth). On the other hand, Jade is an engaging high-school girl who has a part-time job as a sex worker on the Internet.
Jade's career as a webcam girl sparks an odd and completely irrelevant sub-plot. The film keeps cutting away from the would-be couple to a woefully inept police officer who is assigned to monitor these sights. His entire job appears to be watching Internet porn and he doesn't seem that good at it. He's more interested in chatting with underage girls than he is with ending their exploitation. This goes nowhere and has nothing to do with anything.
The girls are cute and you want them to get together. Actually, you really want them to hook-up just to see something happen. It's a really slow movie. I'd say that more girl-on-girl action would help but really, when isn't that the case?
On IMDb there's a message board thread called "Any Similar, Better, films?" I think that sums up my feelings on this movie.
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