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Friday, December 23, 2005
geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha: visually stunning!
opening day of memoirs of a geisha, and we hurriedly went to watch it. we thought it would be hard to get tickets for any shows since today is the day before the day before christmas. surprisingly, we managed to get the 6.30pm show at sheppard's cineplex odeon.
okay, but before all that, i was at home spring-cleaning with my housemates! believe it? that's super weird. it's not even close to chinese new year, but we decided to clean the house. it probably had something to do with our dinner party tomorrow! well anyway, we cleaned the kitchen, washed the toilet, vacuumed the carpets..
then left with my brother and nora to sheppard. had an early korean dinner. we tipped a little less than usual, so we hurried out. i know we are blacklisted (especially since we asked for extra appetizers), but we swore never to go back there since the food isn't all that great. walked a short distance to get bubble-tea and smuggled the drinks into the cinemas hiding it in bags.
memoirs of a geisha had it's low and many high points. it started off shaky but somewhere one-third into the show, it picked up. that's the part where chiyo/sayuri (zhang ziyi) gets under the tutelage of mameha (michelle yeoh), and gets the training to become a true geisha.
zhang ziyi, michelle yeoh and gong li gives awesome performances. especially gong li, as the evil hatsumomo who loses everything (well nearly) to the popular newcomer geisha, sayuri. mameha said, "we do not become geishas to pursue our destiny", but that was what sayuri did.
i love all the visuals of the show. it's so colourful and.. asian? maybe that's the thing that made me pause halfway, and think "hey, this is a hollywood movie?". somehow it felt so weird to see asian stars on the big screen in a western world. there was this part: "americans are bastards". imagine the reaction of americans watching it. lol!
the movie was more of a touching romantic one that teaches the culture of geisha. which succeeds in doing so. it's just a different feel from the usual hollywood films. generally, I LOVE IT!
opening day of memoirs of a geisha, and we hurriedly went to watch it. we thought it would be hard to get tickets for any shows since today is the day before the day before christmas. surprisingly, we managed to get the 6.30pm show at sheppard's cineplex odeon.
okay, but before all that, i was at home spring-cleaning with my housemates! believe it? that's super weird. it's not even close to chinese new year, but we decided to clean the house. it probably had something to do with our dinner party tomorrow! well anyway, we cleaned the kitchen, washed the toilet, vacuumed the carpets..
then left with my brother and nora to sheppard. had an early korean dinner. we tipped a little less than usual, so we hurried out. i know we are blacklisted (especially since we asked for extra appetizers), but we swore never to go back there since the food isn't all that great. walked a short distance to get bubble-tea and smuggled the drinks into the cinemas hiding it in bags.
memoirs of a geisha had it's low and many high points. it started off shaky but somewhere one-third into the show, it picked up. that's the part where chiyo/sayuri (zhang ziyi) gets under the tutelage of mameha (michelle yeoh), and gets the training to become a true geisha.
zhang ziyi, michelle yeoh and gong li gives awesome performances. especially gong li, as the evil hatsumomo who loses everything (well nearly) to the popular newcomer geisha, sayuri. mameha said, "we do not become geishas to pursue our destiny", but that was what sayuri did.
i love all the visuals of the show. it's so colourful and.. asian? maybe that's the thing that made me pause halfway, and think "hey, this is a hollywood movie?". somehow it felt so weird to see asian stars on the big screen in a western world. there was this part: "americans are bastards". imagine the reaction of americans watching it. lol!
the movie was more of a touching romantic one that teaches the culture of geisha. which succeeds in doing so. it's just a different feel from the usual hollywood films. generally, I LOVE IT!