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Memoirs of a Western Orientalist Fantasy

On: January 25th, 2006 at 1:46 am | Number of Comments » 5

I cannot bring myself to watch Memoirs of a Geisha, even for scholarly reasons. The trailer sooooooooo confirmed my suspicions it was going to be a Hollywood-made orientalist piece of crap. And then, thankfully, Roger Ebert panned it for reasons that I agree with. However, Ebert too easily accepted that non-Japanese women were cast as [...]