gaysha
and so i watched memoirs of a giesha yesterday, rather involuntarily. and unfortunately, i found it to be quite absurd and boring.
9-year-old sayuri is sold by her father because he is poor and her mother is sick. she ends up at a geisha house with another girl called 'pumpkin'. she becomes the slave to a geisha.
she is sitting on a bridge one day, and some old pedophile called 'the chairman' comes by and buys her some ice kachang. he tells her that his children like ice kachang too. he also gives her some small change wrapped in his handkerchief to 'buy supper' or something.
the little girl is then eternally indebted to her 'saviour' and decides to dedicate her life into becoming a geisha so that she can meet up with the old man again. she also keeps his handkerchief and smells it everyday. basically, the 9-year-old fell in love with the 40-year-old.
9-year-old soon grows up and becomes the 15-year-old oh-so-pretty zhang ziyi (who is 26). she trains under some old geisha and becomes the best in the business. she solidifies her status as the best in a dance that made her look surprisingly demented and ghastly (it's suppposed to be graceful and all that).
after some weirdly stupid moments, she auctions off her virginity to 'doctor crab' for 15,000 yen (s$206, i would have bid if only i had the chance).
more stupid moments later, she is 20 and finally reunited with her saviour. he tells her that he have waited for her all these years, and was the one who arranged for the old geisha to train her. so he IS a pedophile.
maybe now you can understand how absurd it is.
1) a 9-year-old fell in love with a 40-year-old, and the 40-year-old fell in love with the 9-year-old too. the old man happens to be married with children too.
2) with all her beauty, sayuri looked like a mad woman in her 'graceful' dance.
3) while everyone else has nice japanese names, 3 sad fucks have to be contented with crap like 'pumpkin' and 'doctor crab' and 'the chairman'.
*spoiler warning: plot and/or ending details above.*
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9-year-old sayuri is sold by her father because he is poor and her mother is sick. she ends up at a geisha house with another girl called 'pumpkin'. she becomes the slave to a geisha.
she is sitting on a bridge one day, and some old pedophile called 'the chairman' comes by and buys her some ice kachang. he tells her that his children like ice kachang too. he also gives her some small change wrapped in his handkerchief to 'buy supper' or something.
the little girl is then eternally indebted to her 'saviour' and decides to dedicate her life into becoming a geisha so that she can meet up with the old man again. she also keeps his handkerchief and smells it everyday. basically, the 9-year-old fell in love with the 40-year-old.
9-year-old soon grows up and becomes the 15-year-old oh-so-pretty zhang ziyi (who is 26). she trains under some old geisha and becomes the best in the business. she solidifies her status as the best in a dance that made her look surprisingly demented and ghastly (it's suppposed to be graceful and all that).
after some weirdly stupid moments, she auctions off her virginity to 'doctor crab' for 15,000 yen (s$206, i would have bid if only i had the chance).
more stupid moments later, she is 20 and finally reunited with her saviour. he tells her that he have waited for her all these years, and was the one who arranged for the old geisha to train her. so he IS a pedophile.
maybe now you can understand how absurd it is.
1) a 9-year-old fell in love with a 40-year-old, and the 40-year-old fell in love with the 9-year-old too. the old man happens to be married with children too.
2) with all her beauty, sayuri looked like a mad woman in her 'graceful' dance.
3) while everyone else has nice japanese names, 3 sad fucks have to be contented with crap like 'pumpkin' and 'doctor crab' and 'the chairman'.
*spoiler warning: plot and/or ending details above.*
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sophomore slump or comeback of the year - fall out boy
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