Review of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011) by Chelsie I — 20 Nov 2011

Didn't enjoy the parallel storyline much. The book had no flip-flops between past and present. They should've kept to the book more, because I feel a lot of the significant details in the book were left out, basically changing the feel to something different and not nearly as historically interesting and spiritually deep as the book was.

The movie version just didn't invoke the same emotion I felt in the book version, but I think because I'd already read the book, I understood the overall feel the filmmakers were attempting to convey.

Therefore I wouldn't recommend this to someone who hasn't read the book.