The review of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

The movie ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ is a romantic epic originated from Arthur Golden’s best-selling novel in 1997. The story is set in a mysterious and exotic world before World War II, casting a Japanese child, Sayuri, who is sold to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival, Hatsumomo, who nearly breaks her spirit, Sayuri blossoms into the legendary geisha. The reason behind is because Sayuri cannot forget a moment of unexpected kindness she experience at an early age, which sustains her throughout the years of sufferings. In order to be close to the man she love and who is beyond her reach, the only way to her is to become a geisha. The whole movie is narrating the life of Sayuri; how a poor little girl blossoms to a legendary geisha because to pursue her only hope in her life---the man she loves.

This is a melodramatic film full of cherry blossoms and dark streets lit by paper lanterns, where all houses have their own deftly-maintained garden and everyone is dressed to the nines (very impressive and elegance kimono!!!). Besides, the most capturing part to me is the dances and the trainings of Sayuri to become a geisha, which are the beautiful arts that we seldom have the opportunities to appreciate. These are the most well done and successful part in the movie. Apart from these, the story in the movie of love and betrayal seems hardly appropriate to the treatment mainly probably because of the over-emphasizing on the visual scope. The only success is the hatred of Hatsumomo to Sayuri; how she did everything just to destroy the destiny of Sayuri and finally die because of her hatred. Whereas although Sayuri and Ken Wanatabi met at last after a lot of suffer and twist and turns, I did not feel touched at all.

Anyway, the love of Sayuri to Ken Wanatabi in the movie is another special type of love to me, which can be seldom found in the world nowadays. That is a love which you hide very deeply in the heart, but give you the strength to face any difficulties, makes you stronger, and in order to get closer to the man you love, anything terrifying to you will be nothing anymore, just because of him.

It is beautiful.

What effects might a university student with high emotional intelligence experience in academic and social arenas?

Emotional Intelligence can greatly assist a university student to achieve their success in either academic or social arena. From academic point of view, the most common problem for an undergraduate is stresses from studies. There is no doubt that a person with high emotional intelligence can easily overcome these stresses compared to those who do not have high emotional intelligence. Stresses are often a stumbling block for us to achieve our success. However, if suitable attitude and action are used to solve them, we can always turn the stumbling block to a new step which can help us to achieve a higher level of success. Take an example, undergraduates usually feel that they have too many tasks to complete but do not have sufficient time to get them done in time, and thus stresses are formed. If one has high emotional intelligence, which means he/she has adequate self-awareness, self-motivation and proper mood management, he/she will then be aware of the problems from the very beginning and analyze the pro and cons of him/herself and eventually positively motivate him/herself to do an arrangement which best fit his/her timetable to complete the tough tasks. They’ll treat every problems faced as a challenge and always seek for alternative solutions to solve them. In this way, the more problems solved, the more experience gained, and the easier to reach the success in academic studies. Apart from academic, high emotional intelligence can also assist an undergraduate to generate a harmonious social life and social life does play an important part in an undergraduate’s life. With good impulse control and excellent interpersonal skills, one can have marvelous relationships and communications with his/her friends, schoolmates and lecturers. A person is unlikely to do things in the most effective way if he/she does not cooperate with others. Moreover, most of the assignments and design projects in university are required to work in groups and most of the careers in the society nowadays are seldomly found to work independently, except for the professionals. So, the capabilities to work with the others very well will add a bonus to the achievement of his/her academic achievement. In conclusion, an undergraduate with high emotional intelligence will not only have a smoother road to success, but will also reach a higher step in the final success in comparison to those who does not have high emotional intelligence due to the good use of the ‘life’s tactics’ to overcome every challenge faced.