Drifting Flowers

A gay/lesbian movie. The environment the characters live in looks so familiar to me, which makes me feel that it is a story that could really happen any time to anyone around me. The way they talk combining Taiwanese and Mandarin may not sound exactly the same to what I know, and so it is hard to tell when the story happens. Not sure if the director even cares to show that, or deliberately blurs the time.

The major complaint I have for the previous movie "Spider Lilies" of the same director is the lack of music. So many clips in Spider Lilies were left without any voice or any kind of sound that made me wonder if the movie was ever finished before it was released. This time, so much better. Some transitions were filled with Nakashi (I cannot explain this kind of music, but guess all Taiwanese know it) style of music, some were left blank intentionally. I enjoyed that.

The whole movie is divided into 3 sections. We learned that one major character of the first section, Jugou, met Shui-lien, one major character of the second section, when they were teenagers. Shui-lien helped Jugou explore her sexuality, in a way. They went out to have fun, and it rained, and they hid in the truck (come on, this has been used a thousand times), that's when they kissed (of course). When we thought something was going to happen, and kept the eyes wide open, without blinking, fearing we could have missed anything major and important, anxiously waiting for their next move, they burst into laughters and just relaxed in the seats. Maybe they were just feeling awkward, a bit embarrassed of what they were doing, or maybe even a mutual understand, and a total acceptance of themselves.

The third sections ends with a conversation between them both. Jugou said she will leave home, find a woman she loves, and start her life. Shui-lien said she cannot leave, because she is the only kid in the family.

Then we understand in the first section, after Jugou left home, she met Jing and they ended up being a couple. They sang in Shui-lian's sham marriage, the way for Shui-lien to hide herself and have a life with her partner. We do not know how her partner died, but when the second story starts, she is an old woman already, with Alzheimer. She could not recognize her lawful husband, and thought he was her partner. She forced to dress him up like a woman, that leads to many laughters and tears. He tried to run, escape, but at the end of the second section, he wrote a note, put it in a wristband, and asked Shui-lien to wear it at all times. The note says, "I am Shui-lien. I have Alzheimer. In case of emergency, please contact Huang Guo-yen (A-hai)". Huang Guo-yen is his real name. A-hai is Shui-lien's partner's name. He knows Shui-lien will always her him A-hai. Their lives are entwined, however.

Everyone deserves a partner, has his way to look for happiness. We may think we have finally found the one and built a life, like Jugou and Jing, Shui-lien and A-hai, but we can never know what will happen next, if life will become so harsh on us.

And then in the evening, when I got home and checked my email, one new mail rested in my inbox titled "69 Reason Why It Is Good To Be A Lesbian". What a lesbian day for me! Below is the mail.

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I couldn't help but thinking about you when I saw that...

here it is....


1. You don't have to worry about gagging from a "deep throat job"

2. You never have to worry about finding the toilet seat up

3. You can fix your own car and get your hair done within the same afternoon

4. Your orgasms are real. Always. And so are hers.

5. You never have to swallow.

6. You never have to worry about facial hair touching you, anywhere.

7. No one cares if you don't wear a bra.

8. You can wear a dick and use it better than most guys

9. Foreplay is an art

10. You are your own form of birth control

11. Women smell amazing

12. You don't feel like a piece of meat, when she checks you out

13. You can cuddle without feeling like you have to "put out"

14. You find a woman's intellect to be sexy

15. You watch porn for entertainment purposes

16. You feel bad for strippers

17. Orgasms are like Cornucopias – they should called the horn of plenty 18. You never have to worry about breaking a nail, because you don't have any

19. You can pretty much have sex anywhere, at anytime, while flying completely under the radar

20. Sex in public bathrooms is so much easier

21. 69ing is so much more fun (and a lot easier too) Hillbilly

22. I love the smell of a woman

23. I get to do the motor boat in my girlfriend's fabulous tits every day!

24. I love the emotional availability of a woman

25. I love the nurturing care a woman offers

26. I love watching my girlfriend get ready for a night on the town – watching her get out of the shower naked, put on her perfume, do her makeup

27. I like the feel of a soft pussy over a hard, intrusive penis

28. I love cuddling and feeling my girlfriend's soft skin

29. I love kissing a woman's soft lips (yes, both of them – cuz I know that's what you're thinking!)

30. I get to have a best friend and a partner all in one

31. I get to wear her clothes and use her make-up!!! Dubbs

32. great nicknames…like carpet muncher

33. sex on a first date…without fear of pregnancy

34. "no man's ever going to tell ME what to do!"

35. it's like dating yourself 36. double the wardrobe, double the FUN!

37. WAY less body hair

38. no spooging in your face

39. women taste better

40. especially the vegan ones

41. one word…BOOBIES!!!

42. "we were just switching clothes, officer!"

43. No 2 clits are alike!

44. Women make sexier bedroom noises

45. Lingerie you can BOTH wear!

46. Double headed dildos

47. The ultimate in feminism

48. Chick flicks are just movies in a lesbians house

49. better kisses

50. no scratchy faces

51. you LIKE when she grabs your ass

52. if it really came down to it, you could totally find SOME dude who'd pay to watch you go down on your girlfriend

53. women don't pass out after orgasms

54. you can do her front ways, back ways, and side ways cuz the wrist moves freer than the hips

55. fingers always fit

56. never having to deal with "morning wood"

57. less farting…which I don't actually know is true but women do not take pride in it

58. you could call her your "roommate" and it's ok Paula the Surf Mom

59. premature ejaculation? what IS that?

60. Eating pussy is good for the complexion… it always makes mine pretty rosy any way.

61. The trashman never sees used condoms in your trash when he hauls it away.

62. If you work it right you and your partner never have to buy your own drinks when you go out… all you have to do it make out… the guys in the bar will just keep em coming just so you keep it going.

63. Lesbians know that you can do more with your fingers then send text messages.

64. Somebody will always has a tampon in an emergency

65. And your partner won't get all embarrassed if you send them to the store to get you some.

66. You are very popular… girls like lesbians, they all want to kiss us….guys like lesbians, they all want to watch movies about us… everybody likes lesbians.

67. Two mommies in the house are always better then one daddy on the golf course

68. You are sure somebody can cook

69. It good to have a partner who has a sense of fashion