Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha [2005] Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Wantanabe Direction by Rob Marshall Language: English Well, Michelle Yeoh was in this movie, and that was my entire reason for seeing it. In the past, I have heard that this movie has caused a lot of controversy from people who watched it. And when there’s controversy, there’s me. I enjoyed the movie, but I think that there were some inherent issues with the writing of it. The movie focuses on how difficult it is to be a geisha, and how being one means living a life devoid of love, full of regret and devoid of joy. However, this movie decided to focus on the exceptional, a story where there is dramatic suffering only to end with the fulfilment of a childhood wish, which would be highly improbable considering how the plot of the story went. It was annoying that the ending was so trite: I thought that, especially in a movie that revolves around the suffering in a profession that is also so underrepre...