A review on The Joy Luck Club
This movie is The Joy Luck Club. The movie tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other.
In many cases, we and those we love are easy to hurt each other because of the misunderstanding of love, the conflicts in generations and culture background, or unconsciousness.
Take Jingmei and her mother Suyuan as an example. When Suyuan demanded the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouted to her mother, “You can’t make me!” Even Jingmei cried that she wish ed she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wished she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicated that she was hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.
Maybe as a child, Jingmei cannot comprehend what her remarks mean to Suyuan, and just want to show her grudge. But another main reason is the different backgrounds of Suyuan and Jingmei bare.
Chinese parents always like to put all their hopes on the next generation for they are the generation full with hardship and pain. All they do just want the children to be better, but they ignore that whether their children can accept or not, not along a child born in America, influenced by the American’s individual freedom and knowing little
about Chinese culture. The generation gap and culture conflict cause the misunderstanding of the mother and the daughter.
In this movie, Waverly tried her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approved or not became the master of all her choice. Even Waverly married a Chinese man because Lindo liked Chinese, while she did n’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize the things that she has done. On the other side, Lindo thought that her daughter was ashamed of her, which was her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chess by herself. Both of them deeply love each other, but in the meantime, they hostile and hurt one another. This is the way them get along with each other.
Ying-ying encouraged her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she made in her first marriage. And An-mei told her daughter Rose to learn to shout at the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose had lost herself in her marriage. These two cases reveal that the women begin to release themselves from the restrains of being oppressed by the men and the old-fashioned thoughts as well as some Chinese traditional characters. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from this movie. The title of the movie, the Joy Luck Club
may just be the old generation’s hope of better life for the next generation. On the whole, this is a movie made specifically for women. It is worth our appreciation.
A review on The Joy Luck Club
This movie is The Joy Luck Club. The movie tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other.
In many cases, we and those we love are easy to hurt each other because of the misunderstanding of love, the conflicts in generations and culture background, or unconsciousness.
Take Jingmei and her mother Suyuan as an example. When Suyuan demanded the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouted to her mother, “You can’t make me!” Even Jingmei cried that she wish ed she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wished she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicated that she was hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.
Maybe as a child, Jingmei cannot comprehend what her remarks mean to Suyuan, and just want to show her grudge. But another main reason is the different backgrounds of Suyuan and Jingmei bare.
Chinese parents always like to put all their hopes on the next generation for they are the generation full with hardship and pain. All they do just want the children to be better, but they ignore that whether their children can accept or not, not along a child born in America, influenced by the American’s individual freedom and knowing little
about Chinese culture. The generation gap and culture conflict cause the misunderstanding of the mother and the daughter.
In this movie, Waverly tried her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approved or not became the master of all her choice. Even Waverly married a Chinese man because Lindo liked Chinese, while she did n’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize the things that she has done. On the other side, Lindo thought that her daughter was ashamed of her, which was her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chess by herself. Both of them deeply love each other, but in the meantime, they hostile and hurt one another. This is the way them get along with each other.
Ying-ying encouraged her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she made in her first marriage. And An-mei told her daughter Rose to learn to shout at the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose had lost herself in her marriage. These two cases reveal that the women begin to release themselves from the restrains of being oppressed by the men and the old-fashioned thoughts as well as some Chinese traditional characters. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from this movie. The title of the movie, the Joy Luck Club
may just be the old generation’s hope of better life for the next generation. On the whole, this is a movie made specifically for women. It is worth our appreciation.