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'Memoirs of a Geisha'
(Times)
Updated: 2005-12-09 10:54

The movie begins with a beautiful young girl named Chiyo being sold to an okiya, or geisha house, by her impoverished fisherman father. The house is run by the crusty, pipe-smoking Mother (Kaori Momoi) and the sweet, motherly Auntie (Tsai Chin), but it's ruled by Hatsumomo (Li), a geisha-diva as beautiful as she is despised. A teahouse legend, Hatsumomo does not appear to have let the years of geisha training get to her.

At home, she skulks around in various states of dishabille, bed-hair hanging fetchingly over a single eye, snarling at everybody who gets in her way. There's a reason for the attitude: "It is not for a geisha to love!" we soon learn, but unfortunately for Hatsumomo, she already does. So, naturally, does Chiyo, from the very moment she meets the handsome Chairman (Watanabe) on a bridge and he buys her a treat. But it's not for a geisha to 錕斤拷 well, you already know.

The beautiful Zhang 錕斤拷 who here possesses a pair of startling blue eyes that have the unfortunate effect of making her look glaucomatous 錕斤拷 may grow up to be a superstar entertainer, but she might as well be listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for the ease with which she's bought and sold.

Thanks to Hatsumomo's scheming, she ends up indentured to Mother. She's then leased by the famous Mameha (Yeoh), another famous geisha with long, flowing hair, a sphinx-y smile and a cunning, sexual-political agenda.

Playing Glinda to Hatsumomo's Wicked Witch of the East, Mameha decides to help Sayuri take the place of Hatsumomo at Mother's okiya, so that peace may come to the geishas of Gion. So she gets to work transforming Chiyo into Sayuri, auctioning off her virginity and promoting her as a consort to the gruff and disfigured Nobu (K?ji Yakusho).

Rather than explore the tension between the geishas' public role as highly controlled, highly stylized "ideal women" and their personal desires, Marshall gives us three desperate teahouse "nocturnal wives," suffering one exquisite torment after another.

A scene in which Sayuri is prepped for her teahouse debut is accompanied by warpath music. Beauty, as we're continually reminded, is pain.

But then pain is beauty, and as "Geisha" swoons and flutters over every betrayal, near-miss and emotional torture that make up Sayuri's life, it's hard not to get swept up in the exquisite torment of it all. Besides, as my viewing companion remarked later, you put all those crazy women in one rice-paper house, emotions are bound to run high.

"Geisha" presents a particularly American view, pitting tradition against self-realization. And it fails to illuminate what the book (as I remember it) seemed to, that geishas enjoyed a freedom and education that other Japanese women did not. In the context of the teahouse, they were able to enjoy a parity with men that was unavailable to wives and daughters.

As central as they are to the geishas' lives, the men in the film are at best peripheral. "Memoirs" is a woman's picture in the most old-fashioned Hollywood sense. For all of Mameha's kindness to Sayuri, she remains an enigmatic figure with an agenda.

Even Sayuri's innocent friend Pumpkin (Zoe Weizenbaum, and later Youki Kudoh), whose time spent among American soldiers has an unfortunate "Full Metal Jacket" effect on her speech, turns out to have claws. And the set-pi錕斤拷ce de r錕斤拷sistance: a catfight in which Hatsumomo is given free reign to unleash her dormant Glenn Close.

Spanning two decades and a momentous war, "Memoirs of a Geisha" displays all the pomp and grandeur of an epic, but you wouldn't call it sweeping.

The story plays out in small rooms and smaller realms of possibility. It compensates for ratcheting up the emotion to operatic decibels and playing up the theatrics to the point of absurdity. (Sayuri's big moment comes when she performs a bizarre avant-garde dance on 10-inch platforms to what sounds like John Cage on the mandolin.)

Strip away the silk and circumstance, and "Memoirs of a Geisha" is a titillating tear-jerker about virtue corrupted and innocence rescued by men of means.

By the time Sayuri asks, "What do we know about entertaining Americans?" you want to say, "Honey, please, you've been doing it for two solid hours."


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