Memoirs of a Geisha Part 2

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'Memoirs of a Geisha' Part 2

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[bedheadsweetie]

I really feel for Hatsumomo. Imagine spending your entire life training to be a Geisha, putting yourself through hell over and over again to be the best, and then realising you can't be the best anymore, just because some country girl who has never tasted the kind of pain you have has blue eyes. She didn't have to work to stand out, she just did.

[unwrittenmariposa09]

If I was Chiyo I would just told her, "Well i have to clean it, they told me so. Unless you want rats in your room, then I'll leave it alone. Enjoy being bitten, bitch!"

[nivsha]

Competition sucks.

[Kikyogirl]

I didnt like reading the book. I thought the main character was so conceited in a look-at-me, I'm so special kind of way. Hated her.

[wackoFuzzay]

they looked so cute when the were running to school!

[thescrpionsgrl]

Actually, I don't sympathize with Hatsumomo. In the book she managed to scrape by in a lot of situations for her legendary beauty, which exceeded even Sayuri's. She plotted and connived and hurt people to get what she wanted, her looks such a huge advantage that it outweighed her horrid personality. By contrast, Sayuri had to be clever to get ahead.

[TheUsedAngel]

@OneDarkAutumn True that. Hastumomo has her own defect of character that makes her not quite as successful as Mameha. Mameha became independent and lives outside of an Okiya, Hastumomo lives in the Okiya because she isn't nice enough to keep a danna.

[moraz21]

If this film is good in English, think how much better it could be in Japanease!. That way I could watch this and study for my japanease exam at the same time.

[PrincipessaDellOpera]

Hatsumomo is portrayed perfectly in this movie. Beautiful in an untouchable, regal, haughty way, but her beauty marred by her cruelty and self-serving goals. The woman who acted Hatsumomo was absolutely perfect.

[OneDarkAutumn]

@bedheadsweetie I don't feel for Hatsumomo. Her life was probably only as painful as Chiyo's - probably less, because Hatsomomo never had to work as a slave. In fact, Chiyo probably had a harder time than most geisha because she had to learn everything so fast. Chiyo didn't destroy Hatsumomo's chances; Hatsumomo did that herself, because she was too much of a bitch to ever attract a dana and become independent.

[isnessx3]

@kira24ist I had to be "that girl," but the book describes that, in the culture at the time, the eyes of most people in Japan were brown, symbolizing that they had a proper balance of the elements within them (wood, water, fire, earth, etc.). However, people believed that Chiyo's blue eyes meant she had far more water than anything else in her personality, meaning she was strong, like water, but also adaptable, resourceful, and unable to be held down.

[isnessx3]

@bedheadsweetie I guess it depends if you've read the book or not before this. I'm sure you might've read it by now, but Hatsumomo is no one you'd feel sorry for in the book.  She's a horrible woman with nothing but herself in mind. I suppose the movie paints a slightly different picture.