Is this a truly horror story? No. But it's premise its quite frightening.
The story starts in the future 2030 where there have been some advances in technology - nothing major. I only discover because of all indication 2031 or so.
Basically a hideous crime has been committed and a person is killed. Then the mystery starts... which is the main focus of this tale. A whodunit I believe it's called. We learn of the persecutor (a cancer man who is slowly dying) and his wife which is a investigator (she is pregnant) and we start learning about this tale. You've got several people saying what happen and all points out for the son of the killed man since he blames the death of his mother on his father. But, alas, not everything is what it seems. We are reminded again that we are in the future when they start talking about cure for cancer and soul transition to another body.
In this novel there is a lot of Chinese/Taiwan folklore magic and a lot more of science. That's why I think this is a bit of horror take - its kind of horrific people transition from one body to another.
Is this movie good? Yes
Is this boring? I struggled a lot in the beginning and thought it was very slow.
Is this a mystery novel with a lot of twists? Undoubtly.
Advisable to anyone who wants to read some Asian mystery novel mix with sci-fi and psychological horror.
By the way - there are two version of the movie. One made for Chinese audience and other for the rest of the world. The Netflix version is the ROW not the Chinese. Since Chinese people really love order and such the ending is a bit different and therefore I am going into spoilers
Spoilers Ahead
Basically the wife of the persecutor hides some evidence to make his husband go through the trails against cancer but the persecutor finds out and after confronting the wife of the deceased (which is now the deceased - he made a soul swap) she is condemned to be in prison (after being swap with the persecutor). The wife of the persecutor, in the Chinese version tells everyone that she has hidden some evidence and she is incarcerated as well. In the Taiwan version (or ROW) this last part doesn't happen and she goes to see her husband (now in the body of the imprisoned female and he (she) say and do stuff the persecutor did.
Oh the Chinese version doesn't have the same violence stuff the ROW has (although I don't know about the nudity).
Either way - advisable.
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