[blytthe]

[memoirsofmorality]

get to know me meme: [3/10] movies memoirs of a geisha - “She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for Geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret. ”

[cinyma]

Zhang Ziyi in Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

[memoirsofmorality]

http://cinyma.tumblr.com/post/92555996873/zhang-ziyi-in-memoirs-of-a-geisha-2005

[memoirsofmorality]

The audience has a subconscious desire to sympathize and root for one person and antagonize another. In most cases, there is an obvious distinction, but for some, the line is less clear.

[memoirsofmorality]

http://www.desktopwallpapers4.me/movies/chiyo-memoirs-of-a-geisha-11023/

[memoirsofmorality]

The characters of Memoirs of a Geisha cannot be defined as strictly good or evil and instead fall under a morally grey area. This can be seen through moral evaluation of the characters, Sayuri, Mr. Tanaka and the Chairman.

[memoirsofmorality]

http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/148056

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[memoirsofmorality]

http://alayneztone.tumblr.com/post/77591812219

[memoirsofmorality]

I felt almost as if we were torturing her. In any case…

Golden, 327

Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel. Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York: Vintage, 1999. Print.

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[memoirsofmorality]

http://okamidream.tumblr.com/post/59528869172

[memoirsofmorality]

I didn’t want to lose his friendship; but in my efforts to read the Chairman, Nobu was an obstacle I’d found no way around

Golden, 395

Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel. Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York: Vintage, 1999. Print.

[notdavidfincher]

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) 

[memoirsofmorality]

http://blurrymelancholy.tumblr.com/post/100771662107/memoirs-of-a-geisha-2005

[memoirsofmorality]

Sayuri means well, in that she simply seeks love and passion but in her path she allows a man to define her and ruins almost all of her close relationships.

[memoirsofmorality]

https://leolaksi.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/maiko-in-kyoto-geisha-in-training/

[memoirsofmorality]

One hears of “love marriages” all the time in Japan, as opposed to arranged marriages; but in fact these categories are not at all that clear-cut

Liza Dalby, 170

Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Geisha. Berkeley: U of California, 1983. Print.

[memoirsofmorality]

http://bulldog2.redlands.edu/fac/Huntley/weddingalbum/weddingsinjapan.html

[nilirian]

365 Films: Memoirs of a Geisha

“To learn of kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little girl with more courage than she knew would find her prayers were answered, can that not be called happiness? After all, these are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen. These are memoirs of another kind.”

[memoirsofmorality]

http://metalbend.tumblr.com/post/41758394497

[memoirsofmorality]

It’s true that up until this time in my life Mr. Tanaka had brought be nothing but suffering; but he also changed my horizons forever.

Golden, 105

Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel. Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York: Vintage, 1999. Print.