1. Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi's English lines made me play, especially when it's time to express some intense emotions, but I deliberately put the cart before the horse for the sake of authentic pronunciation. Because Gong Li has a lot of emotional scenes in this play, this shortcoming is more manifested in her. Michelle Yeoh doesn't have such a problem with her lines, it's very listenable and just right. It's not a question of whether it's Chinese at all, but a stark contrast between speaking English for ten years and speaking English for one year.
2. Zhang Ziyi worked from a kimono manufacturer and returned to Osaka to meet Michelle Yeoh. When she reunited in the small room where Michelle Yeoh is currently in, she was in such a dramatic state, as if the war had never happened, and there was no sense of vicissitudes, even her pronunciation and eyesight. They are still in the state before the war, their voices are deliberately tender, and their eyes are deliberately pure. Compare the childish state of the little girl. It's so unprofessional.
3. In fact, Gong Li is more worthy of deep description, but the director always only focuses on portraying her negative emotions and her behavior that is always "crazy", so I always thought she was very hateful in the first half. But until the end, she threw the alcohol bottle and the candle so hard that I suddenly realized that I had too much prejudice against her based on the influence of the film's perspective. Yes, think about it carefully, Sayuri is more like an enviable heroine with smooth sailing, she herself is as beautiful and precious as jewelry, and she is full of the deepest and most beautiful love of a girl, on the road of becoming a geisha. There are nobles to help, wholeheartedly. It really feels like a Mary Sue. And the character played by Gong Li is in a transitional period of getting older and changing from beauty to bleak, and there is another person with such a Mary Sue script by her side, who is not angry? Gong Li did a good job, and I think she has the courage to choose this role instead of a true, good and beautiful role. However, this film does not have so much depth, and it a bit lives up to her original intention. Also, the pronunciation is too dramatic, you don't have to pursue perfect articulation, sister!
4. Seeing that the ending is that Sayuri and the chairman reunited and told each other deeply and relived the truth, I couldn't watch it anymore, so I closed the movie immediately. Originally, the movie portrayed Michelle Yeoh as a female geisha who was in Vanity Fair but gave a helping hand to Sayuri and taught her carefully. I really applauded the fact that she finally had a beautiful sister by herself instead of always showing the pretense and conspiracy among women. discussed. In the end, it was the chairman who asked her to do this. The chairman immediately established an image of a loving, mature and perfect lover (although the chairman was really a tool in the audience), and replaced it with the beautiful feelings of mutual help between women. It seems that a woman's kindness to her fellow women must also be done because of a man. I am very dissatisfied with this!
4. Where did Sayuri's sister go? Since it's a story, can you not be so anticlimactic?
5. The actor of Little Pumpkin plays the role of Gong Li's puppet in the film, but he is also a character who can compete with Zhang Ziyi in the geisha profession. But she can't compete with Zhang Ziyi no matter which way she looks at it, she can only say that it is peaceful and unremarkable. To reflect the preciousness and beauty of pearls, it is necessary to compare another pearl. What's the point of finding a stone for comparison? When you think about it, it just feels boring.
5. Watching is not recommended. This was even more certain when I saw that the film was based on a novel written by an American. I'll probably only give a 2.5.
View more about Memoirs of a Geisha reviews
