Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Memoirs of a Geisha - a movie review........



Charming movie if you are able to place yourself in the old Orient...with all its old tradition and the error we in the West always make, that a Geisha is just a simple whore......well she isn't.

She is just a kind of lady companion, who is trained in conversation, in dance and playing the old Ehru, a kind of guitar.

That one is trying to get her in bed is so wrong and so out of order and so disrespectful, that is almost is a crime of breaking traditions.

The movie shows very clear what it is to become a geisha, what offers one has to make, and what different kind of opinion even their "customers" have about their profession.

Falling in love is forbidden, it's against the rules and as the Geisha says: A Geisha is only half a housewife, because in the evening she belongs to her profession. Moving film, excellent play, beautiful and sad characters. The only thing that I found disturbing was the use of the English language in a movie so full of Eastern traditions, it was even ridiculous to hear it......it took away a lot of the original "charm"....