The Path of True Love (Memoirs of a Geisha (DVD))

Member Name: malteser1987

Product:	Memoirs of a Geisha (DVD)
Date:	17/05/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Wonderful film

Disadvantages: Slip of accent, missing certain elements from the book

A beautiful film and wonderful soundtrack. I read the book before the film and was captured by the images of a world I would never know and the film adaptation, though lacking in certain details as many adaptations do, is complementary to integrity of the book. Sayuri is wonderfully portrayed throughout the film; her beautiful sad blue-grey eyes reflecting the constraints and isolating nature of the world she has been forced to live in. Pumpkin is also a wonderfully endearing character whose marked confident transition during the war into a garish tourist-trap geisha confirmed my original impression that she has an American accent in real life - she lets certain words slip but is perfectly convincing throughout. The beautiful landscapes, rounded characters and exposing the intricacies and harsh realities of a world based on the value of respect and expectation from women in that culture, the tragedy of being unable to choose the ones we love and the remarkable twist that brings the ones we ache for throughout the movie , to finally find one another.

A wonderful, beautiful story and film.

Summary: A beautiful film,a complement to the book