![]() You cannot read loss, only feel it.”įate is something many people deny. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. The moment of pain is so beautifully and realistically recreated that you just can’t stay indifferent to it. “ At the temple, there is a poem called “Loss” carved into the stone. The most emotional moment for me was when Chio lost everything and realised the only home she had was this same okiya she was desperately trying to escape. The narrative is so beautifully written, it makes you feel the emotions of the characters as your own. What I love about the Memoirs of a Geisha is the wisdom it teaches. ![]() However, Sayuri does something that is absolutely forbidden for geishas- falls in love… But when Chio is 16 another legendary geisha- Mameha- takes her under her wing and helps her to transform from the little, frightened girl Chio into the beautiful and most desired geisha in Hanamachi, Sayuri. She sees in the little girl a serious competitor and does all her best to stop her from becoming a geisha. However, this doesn’t stay unnoticed by one of the most popular geishas in Hanamachi who happens to live in the same okiya as Chio- Hatsumomo. Her features and qualities determine her a very successful nenki (career as a geisha). The little Chio is incredibly beautiful since an early age, having the rare for a Japanese girl blue eyes. As a young girl, Chio is sold by her father to a geisha house and is separated from her sister who’s sold to another okiya in Hanamachi. The movie shows the transformation of the fisher’s daughter Chio into the legendary geisha Sayuri- a path full of pain and sacrifices, of love and duty. ![]() It contains a lot of everything- love, loyalty, strength, wisdom, pain… The actors, the costumes, the narrative, the story in general. ![]() I love beautiful things and this is a beautiful movie. It is one of those movies that leave you breathless, in a deeply philosophical state of mind. I have seen the Memoirs of a Geisha several times. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.“ Geisha is an artist of the floating world. ![]()
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