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Geisha is like a Chinese opera
Ned 2022-03-20 09:01:38
Geishas are like Chinese opera, and this movie is the Japanese version of Farewell My Concubine. In fact, you can know the general plot just by looking at the title. At most, it is about a geisha falling in love. If you look at the main actors, three women in one play, there must be jealousy and jealousy. The acting skills of the leading actors are all good, especially Gong Li, who plays a geisha who is outdated and full of resentment. The actor who plays the young Sayuri is also beautiful. For the whole society, the problem of geisha may be a tasteless problem, but for every geisha and those men, the calm story is full of feelings of one kind or another. The story of Sayuri's life is so similar to "Letter from a Strange Woman". When she was a child, she fell in love with a mature man, and then she ran around various men in her life to find the object of her love. I feel that the picture of the film is beautiful, the photography is great, and I like the part where Sayuri is practicing one project after another to become a geisha. The music starts without sound, and then it is a textbook for video editing. However, this movie that I liked very much suffered a low score of 6.4 on IMDB. I looked at the distribution and found that 28% of the audience thought this movie was very good and scored 10 points, but 9% of the audience with ulterior motives gave it the lowest score. 1 point. Maybe such a theme, cast and script are not flattering among Japan, the United States, and China. Anyway, it's still a pretty good movie.
Extended Reading
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Auntie: You are to become geisha.
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Sayuri Narration: You cannot say to the sun, "More sun." Or to the rain, "Less rain." To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew, would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.