The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television is commenting on “Memoirs of a Geisha”. While they still have not taken a stance on whether they will allow the movie or not, they claim it has passed their “inspection”. Confusing again.

It seems there has been a public outcry to SARFT to stop the movie from playing in China. An interesting point: “People have criticized Zhang Ziyi for taking the role of a Japanese prostitute.”

Probably meaning playing a Japanese role is bad, but being a prostitute is OK. Watch her in her next movie, “Memoirs of a Pink Saloon Girl”.

Meanwhile, more considerations mount:

According to the Shanghai Youth Daily, the largest obstacle to the movie’s release in China is that the government is afraid that the film content may outrage the audience.

Here is my advice: If you are outraged by the film content, don’t watch the movie. You don’t see Christian Nuns going to see Scream, now do you? Be smart enough to know what you want to watch boys and girls.

Though, all this deliberation is moot. The movie has already been made and shown in theaters around the world. Those who wanted to see it in China have already bought the DVD which was avaliable in early January. Those who oppose the film won’t watch it anyways, so what’s the big deal? All these people should do something more productive with their time, like make more good movies we can all enjoy!