Memoirs of a Geisha
I've finally finished it today! It's 496 pages long and tells the enchanting story of a geisha named Sayuri. Her life is so pitiful that it gave me such a horrible heaviness in my heart after i've finished it!Her melancholic life revolves around thick makeup, heavy hair, elaborate kimonos, stinky rich men and jealous Geishas. Being a geisha living in the same Okiya (i think it meant some geisha house haha!) as the evil and menacing Hatsumomo, Sayuri live in fear and sorrow everyday being bullied around by stupid Hatsumomo who even ruined the friendship between her and pumpkin! Poor pumpkin!:( And even when in the end Hatsumomo went crazy and left the Okiya, Sayuri still live joylessly in her geisha shadow.
Her whole story is so deplorable, from the first page till the last, there was not even once when Sayuri felt truly happy or even dared let out a generous amount of laughter!
But no matter how sad the story is, memoirs of a geisha is a book that kept me so engrossed, reading and reading till the end of it. And it made me so captivated by the beauty of Geishas, the ravish and glamour of their lives that they seem to portray, the charm of their characters and last but not least their determination to survive and persist on.
They are just so stunningly beautiful!Hmmmmm, i must say Zhang ZiYi is AMAZING as Sayuri!
I really regretted not watching the movie a few years ago!:(
Gong Li is so brave for overtaking the role of Hatsumomo. Being Hatsumomo, she have to live with the hateful and vicious character for months when the movie is being filmed!I have heard of actresses who attempted suicide because they've been living as such a horrible personality that they start to think that they were bad! It's no wonder they would take their own lives!
It's stressful being someone you're not, especially if that someone is such an ugly character like Hatsumomo!
Behind all that glitz and glamour, actresses really have it hard on them. And it's even worse for girls who were forced to become Geishas, i'm so happy Geishas are declining in numbers now:D
