Review of Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) by Amurabim. — 13 Jul 2006
Despite all its sumptuous production, its luxurious feeling and the exotic of its theme, "Memoirs of a Geisha" feels a little bit like a disappointment. This epic production feels condemned since its beginning: dark, melodramatic and superficial depth as the young Sayuri is kidnapped.
But, all the movie feels like that. There are not depth, achievement, heart. It feels like soulless, like some standard epic from the 40s without charm. Rob Marshall fails miserably and give the same charisma to bring "Chicago" to break a hit.
The failure is the occasionally boring and, overall, quiet adaptation. The story feels like a cheap melodrama, with the same pretensions of a latin soap opera, but with some kimonos. There are no passion, romance, love.
This is just a compendium of great artistic values of production involved in a worthless drama. But the film worth because of that. This is an epic well filmed, well achieved with stunning triumphs in acting, cinematography, music (williams is noy corny!!!), costume and production design, etc.
But despite all its beauty has very poor narrative structure than it turns this like a poor cliched melodramatic bombastic film.
This review of Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) was written by Amurabim. on 13 Jul 2006.
Memoirs of a Geisha has generally received positive reviews.
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