Hidden Whisper
(Xiao bai wu jin ji)
by Vivian Chang
Taiwan
Script: Vivian Chang
Cinematographer: Shen Rei-yuan
Editor: Chen Xiao-dong
Sound: Yang Chin-an
Music: Max Nagl
Cast: Hsiao Shu-shen, Hsia Ching-ting, Huang Pin-hsuan, Leon Dai, Tammy Tseng, Elaine Jin, Shi Qi, Jack Kao
Production: Central Motion Picture Corporation
Year: 2000
35 mm, Colour, 98 min,
OV Mandarin with French Subtitles
Awarded at Fribourg Film Festival
Unrelased
She is a five-year-old girl. She lives in her own world. As reality is too harsh, she invented a fancy world to escape the daily violence in her family life. In this family facing problems, the reality is made of violence and humiliation, but seen through the eyes of a girl it looks dif ferent…. She is a seventeen-year-old girl, dreaming of changes and feeling revolted. She lives with her mother; or rather they live side by side in two different worlds. As she feels alone and wants to escape reality, she steals ID cards to become someone else. She is a woman in her thirties with a secret she cannot share. She has no one to confide in. All her life she had to run, from her mother to her boy-friends. She runs, she runs all the time without finding a way out. And her mother is about to die…
“This is perhaps the story of the passage to adulthood. It is perhaps the slices of three different lives put together. Imagination, escape, confrontation: three ways out to daily life.” Vivian Chang