the trouble with the book and memoir of a geisha be that it have japanese surface but underneath the surface it be all an american man way of thinking . read the book be like watch a magnificent ballet with great music and set and and costume yet perform by barnyard animal dress in those costumesso far from japanese way of thinking be the character . the movie isn not about japan or real geisha . it be a story about a few american men mistake idea about japan and geisha filter through their own ignorance and misconception . so what be this movie if it isn not about japan or geisha . be it pure fantasy a so many people have say . yes and but then why make it into an american fantasy . there be so many missed opportunity . imagine a culture where there be no puritanical hang ups and no connotation of sin about sex . sex be natural and normal . how be sex handle in this movie . right . like it be dirty . the close thing to a sex scene in the movie have sayuri wrinkle up her nose and grimace with distaste for five second a if the man try to mount her have drop a handful of cockroach on her crotch . do anyone actually enjoy sex in this movie . nope . one character be say to be promiscuous but all we see be her push away her lover because it look like she doesn not want to get caught do something dirty . such typical american puritanism have no place in a movie about japanese geisha . do sayuri enjoy her first ravishing by some old codger after her cherry be auction off . nope . she lie there like a cold slab of meat on a chopping block . of course she isn not suppose to enjoy it . and that be what i mean about this movie . why couldn not they have give her something to enjoy . why do all the sex have to be sinful and wrong . behind mameha the chairman be sayuri secret patron and and a such he be behind the auction of her virginity . he could have rig the auction and win her himself . nobu do not even bid . so why do the chairman let that old codger win her and and reeking of old man stink and get his finger all over her naked body . would any woman ever really forgive a man for that . let try to make sense of this . by be behind mameha the chairman incur debt for sayuri geisha training . in order to recoup his debt the chairman have sayuri sell to dr. crab . through mameha the chairman sell sayuri sexual favor to that old geezer so that the chairman could make some money out of her . the chairman wasn not her patron . he be her pimp . some romantic love story . yes and the film be gorgeous but it be like the beauty of a very attractive and allure transvestite whose voice and appearance and every touch be thrill . but under that very feminine surface lie an ominous secret . under the incorrectly appear japanese surface of the film lurk the ominous secret that the heart and soul and spirit and core of this film be entirely american and male . not the best thing to be if it be try to be other than a lie and distortion and and terribly wrong . some contrast between japan and moag representjapanese style refine and elegant simplicity . moag style peking opera . japanese geisha hair sweep up . moag geisha loose hair which surely must have get all gunked up in the thick paste of white makeup . japanese shave ice japanese be rather strict about seasonal observance . shave ice be strictly a summer treat . moag shave ice the chairman buy chiyo and the young sayuri play by the marvelous suzuka ohgo and this treat during cherry blossom view season . the thought make my entire body shiver with cold . japanese geisha train and skilled entertainer . moag geisha slut . japanese wind chime use in the summer because hear the sound it make and thanks to the breeze and japanese people feel somehow cooler . moag wind chime a door bell . if a person stand in front of another house and make noise with a wind chime they would be consider a lunatic and not gain entrance . japan emphasis on human relationship and group orient . moag i want a life that mine american individualism . japanese traditional dance refine elegance . an almost geometrical and mechanical precision . moag dance martha graham freak out on lsd while wear a not very auspicious white japanese funeral shroud . perform by a geisha down a ramp in a place that look like a strip club . ha ha ha . be a strip club where they do most of their research on geisha . japan house fire setting or even let a fire break out be bad than murder because it pose such a dire threat to the community . fire can rip through those wooden village and town and and city destroy hundred or thousand of home and kill a many people . moag house fire great adjunct to a fight scene but there be zero ramification and because it be no longer need the out of control fire miraculously put itself out . technically the movie end here because at the very least sayuri would have be ostracize and join her sister among those never hear from again . which be where both arthur golden and rob marshall should be exile . enough . the movie stink .