This is not a conventional romance or drama. In fact, if you look at this film with this pre-set concept, you will be disappointed. The group that the film focuses on are geisha. This profession is propped up by a group of unfortunate women. Although they are gorgeously dressed, elegant in their manners, looking forward to their appearance, and attracting reverie, the irony is that a real geisha only has a beautiful shell and a series of behavioral norms, she does not have a real geisha. Beliefs, pursuits and passions as people. It's a tragic existence.
In my opinion, the most valuable connotation of this film is divided into two layers. One is the concept of "geisha", which can be said to exist only in people's imagination. The situation of the image in myth and legend in reality.
What is a geisha? As described in the film, "There is no hope, nothing, she hides her true face with deliberate whitewashing, her eyes are as deep as autumn water, this is not what a geisha should expect, this is not what a geisha should feel, a geisha is The artist of the lost world, she dances, she sings, she pleases you, asks for anything, the rest of her life is a shadow, a secret." I have to say that the film is really good, restoring the beauty that only exists in imagination to reality. For men, this kind of beauty is really like a sublime existence. For women, this kind of beauty is only beautiful on the skin. However, the "geisha" presented in the film is essentially a concept that only exists in myths and legends. Just like the wife of the legendary woman who is expected to become a stone, the fairy in the mythology, the geisha does not need the characteristics of people, nor should people have the hopes and desires of people, she is the symbolization and conceptualization of a certain pursuit in people's hearts. The most suitable carrier for this symbolic image was originally a puppet and a statue, but the funny thing is that some people really concretized it and shaped the living beings into such statues. This is the essence of the emotional advancement of the film.
Turning people into gods means erasing the hopes and pursuits of being a human being, and diluting the emotions of being a human being. The five geisha appearing in the film each have their own pursuits and desires, as well as their own means of life, but most of them cannot escape the shackles of the "geisha" profession itself. The obsession in the heart of the protagonist Chiyoko was family at first, and then the chairman, but most of the time, she just obeyed and obeyed the arrangement of fate. She can only entrust herself to one strange man after another, and force a smile to all kinds of people. If it wasn't for the blessing of fate, she and the chairman could be reunited in the end, her destination would probably be to become the entity of the concept of "geisha" , a tool person who buried her emotions; Hatsomomo had a tough personality, facing the regulations that geisha could not pursue love, she desperately rushed to the lover in her heart, but this kind of bravery could not save her love, and even let her love. She became cynical for a time, but personally think that among the 5 geisha, her future is the best, because she recognized the fundamental contradiction between geisha and human nature early, and finally gave up her identity as a geisha and left alone and resolutely Okiya; Pumpkin pursues the status of the owner of Okiya, but she doesn't realize the essence of "geisha", although Chiyoko's plan in the film makes her wish come to nothing, but even without Chiyoko, how can her plan come true? ? Only increased laughing ears. Although Mrs. Wada and Ma Miu have different identities, they are both people who have recognized the essence of "geisha", accepted the rules and lived distortedly. In fact, there is no lack of human nature in them, such as Mrs. Wada's help to Chiyoko, For example, Mamiwa's exhortation to Chiyoko, but most of their actions are to maintain the existence of "geisha". They have also suffered, and they are unable to change the order, but at the same time let more people enter the industry, and this is just For the ugly desires in my heart. Really saddened.
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