英文电影鉴赏——喜福会

喜福会英文观后感ReviewsonTheJoyLuckClub——电影《喜福会》英文影评、观后感Reviews on The Joy Luck Club——"This feather may look worthless... but it comes from afar and carries with it... all my good intentions."At the very beginning of the movie, it tells a story about an old woman who bought a swan for a foolish sum and brought it to America. This story was mentioned three times in total in this movie, which is connected to June and her mother. This story also reflected "the best quality hope " that June's mother gave to her.SUMMARY OF THE MOVIEMother No.1: SuyuanDaughter No.1: JuneDuring wartime, Suyuan was forced to migrate to Chongqing, carrying her loved twin babies. Take her miserable fate into consideration, Suyuan abandoned both of her babies and keep on escaping. Surprisingly she was survived, and her heart was broken. Her babies were also rescued by someone else.June hasn't started a family yet. After knowing her two uterine sisters were still alive, she decided to go to China to meet them.Mother No.2: LinduoDaughter No.2: WaverlyWhen Linduo was 4, she was engaged with a younger fat boy in a rich family. She couldn't bear the insults so she designed a lie to escape from the house. After that, she got a ticket to Shanghai. Waverly is genius in plying chess and she thought whatever she did, she couldn't get her mother's pleasure. Yet, her marriage to a foreigner is an exception, and misunderstanding between them was also dissolved.Mother No.3: YingyingDaughter No.3: LenaWhen Yingying was 16, she fall in love with a very handsome man and became pregnant before they got married. Their marriage was a failure, and she had no choice but kill her baby in order to "take away the only thing that she shears with her polygamous husband.Lena also had an unsuccessful marriage, she and her husband count every bill in completely detail, they take "fifty-fifty" policy. After being enlightened by her mother, she knew what to do.Mother No.4: AnmeiDaughter No.4: RoseAnmei's mother was raped by a man of wealth and was forced to be the man's fourth wife. Although her family members didn't trust her explains and evicted her from the house, she still loves her old ill mother and cut her own flesh to cure her dying mother.Rose got married with a boss owing a big wine chateau, however, all things she had done to her husband didn't pay off ---her husband's dishonesty drove their marriage to breakdown even had had a lovely daughter.Suyuan, Linduo, Yingying and Anmei, those four Chinese woman's story is the highlight of the movie. They were all insulted and maltreated by Chinese old feudalism in the old society. In order to lead a happy life, they moved to America to build up a new family. Thankfully, their daughters' life are not too bad as theirs and they speak fluent American English.The movie presents the four daughters' personal life, and then lead us to the four ladies' gloomy experience skillfully. Playing mahjong, reading the letter and gathering at the banquet are also the dispensable parts.There are a few points that impressed me:Firstly—the story behind the swan feather. The feather is an embodiment of the hope that Suyan delivered to June, and the hope also represented June' two twin sister. Secondly—fluent American English spoken by those several old Chinese woman and their yellow skin daughters. Fluent American English represented that the four ladies has live in America for many years and they have been accustomed to the American lifestyle. Thirdly—layouts in the four ladies' house and the garments they four wear. There are many antique stuffs with Chinese style scattering in the house. The clothes were also typical in Chinese style.At the end of the movie, June met her two twin sisters, she told them that their mother had already dead, and they burst into tears, simultaneously, so do I.The four ladies migrated from China to America, and brought their cultural background to there anddelivered it to their daughters. It was their mothers' tough experience that taught the girls to learn to be strong and excellent in their own life.(All the contents are written by myself, not derive from the Internet)四川农业大学英语系周记民2016.6.26。

Plot（情节回顾）在电影开头有一段剧情，就是钢琴回忆那一段，我们在这里简要提一下：在小时候微莉总是下棋冠军而June却在钢琴竞赛中失利。

June以为从此他就不用弹琴了，谁知道。

然后她被迫去弹琴，June提到她希望是那个死去的双胞胎。

这样就好了但是母亲说：It’s too late to change母亲甲（林多阿姨LinDo）1、她五岁那年，在母亲、媒婆和大户人家的共同协商下，订给了这大户人家作媳妇。

她仍跟母亲住在一起，但从此母亲用着「你是别人家的人」来对待她.诸如提醒她：「别吃那么快，人家会不要你！」......处处不忘提醒着，她已不再是母亲家的人。

母亲说，不是不再爱她，只是不敢对已经不属于自己的人有任何奢望。

她越是长成亭亭玉立，母女俩越是经常泪眼婆娑、对看无语。

2、终于，到了她得要离去的日子。

送往婆家的前一天，母亲跟她说：「你耳朵比我大，将来一定比我有福气。

以后不管发生什么事，绝对不要忘了你自己是谁。

」次日清晨，婆家派人来接她。

父母全家行李都打包好了，只等把她送走，便立刻启程南下找生路去。

母亲说：「你已经够幸运的了。

」的意思是:的确，这种穷人家的女儿，多少是根本养不大、或者早就卖掉不知死活了呢！她好歹是跟着母亲，又正正当当被送进婆家的——虽然根本不知道自己到底是嫁给了谁！3、结婚那天，她披着红头纱等丈夫进来。

等待自己的命运的那一刻，她决定一辈子记住母亲跟她说的话：「永远不要忘记自己是谁！」她嫁给了比自己小很多的小男生，结婚当夜就拿蜥蜴吓她，他又正值讨厌女生的年龄，因此不准她睡床上。

但她后来因此糟了殃。

她在婆家的身份地位，是用肚皮里生不生的出儿子来决定的。

她无法让小男生对她有任何欲念，她当然不可能受孕，她因此被婆婆三天两头的打骂。

4、最后，她用了精明的伎俩，让自己脱身。

她无意间听到女仆跟拉车夫的对谈，知道这可怜的女仆从拉车夫受了孕，车夫却抵赖不认。

她便利用婆婆迷信祖宗的弱点，告诉婆婆整桩婚姻都是错的，是媒婆贪钱的结果，祖宗中意的媳妇是那女仆，而且还让她受了传宗接代的种。

喜福会英文观后感喜福会英文观后感The first time I saw the title of the film, the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it would be a film filed with joy, luck and happiness. However, out of my expectation, in the film, I saw many unpleasant things—conflicts, hardship, disappointment, sorrow, hurt, torture etc. Of course there were some moving parts, and fortunately, it was a happy ending. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much. It made me have a penetrating thinking.The Joy Luck Club tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other. The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic.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 demands the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouts to her mother, “You can’t make me!” Even Jingmei cried that she wish she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wishes she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicates that she is hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.This reminds me of my similar experience. Once I hurt my mother as Jingmei did. I didn’t mean to hurt her, but those wounding words just slip out of my mouth unconsciously. Often, we hate that why our parents don’t know my feelings, why they like to make us be something and totally unaware that what thei r children are. While the parents don’t know why all their sacrifices to the children can’t be paid off, even incite hatred. Actually, this is the generation gap that causes the misunderstanding. We don’t know the hardship our parents underwent before. The y can’t understand what we are thinking. So misunderstandings appear.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, nota long 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.The other example is Waverly and her mother Lindo. Waverly tries her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approves or not becomes the master of all her choice. Even Waverly marries a Chinese man because Lindo likes Chinese, while she doesn’t love. Waverly doesn’t understan d why Lindo disapprove or criticize whatever she has done. On the other side, Lindo thinks that her daughter is ashamed of her, which is her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chest by herself. Every time, Lindo’s disagreement with or indifference to Waverly directly results from the thought that Waverly feels it shameful to be her daughter. 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. Fortunately, they clear up their misunderstandings and discover themselves by communicating.I am deeply moved by this scene:Waverly Jong says to Lindo, sobbing,, “You don't kn ow, you don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again, crying myself to sleep, because nothing I do can ever, ever please you.” And after a short period of silence, Lindo smiles to Waverly with tears in he r eyes, “Now, you make me happy.” Then they laugh heartily, teary-eyed with happiness.Seeing the old Lindo bursts out laughing, like a child, and Waverly laughs joyfully, I sincerely feel delighted for them. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from them.Along with above mentioned, the struggle for the women to fight for equity is also brought to the surface. For instance, Ying-ying encourages her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she made in her first marriage. And An-mei tells her daughter Rose to learn to shout at the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose has 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. Eventually, the women find their true value and win their own happiness.View from the whole film, the title, the Joy Luck Clu b 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.。

英语作文喜福会观后感Reflections on the Joy Luck Club.The Joy Luck Club, a film directed by Wayne Wang and adapted from Amy Tan's eponymous novel, is a profound exploration of the complexities of mother-daughter relationships set against the backdrop of Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco. The film weaves together four separate narratives, each focusing on a unique mother-daughter duo, highlighting their shared pasts, present conflicts, and the search for understanding and acceptance.What struck me most about the film was its authenticity. The portrayal of Chinese culture, traditions, and the immigrant experience was both realistic and heartfelt. The film did not shy away from the challenges and difficulties that immigrants face, such as language barriers, cultural differences, and the struggle to fit in. At the same time,it celebrated the resilience and strength that thesefamilies draw from their shared history and traditions.The mother-daughter relationships at the center of the film were complex and multi-layered. Each character had their own unique personality, dreams, and ambitions, which often collided with those of their mothers. The film did not offer simple solutions or happy endings to these conflicts, but instead left the audience with a sense of realism and the understanding that these are ongoing processes of growth and understanding.One of the most poignant moments in the film was the scene where the mothers gather to play mahjong and share their stories. This scene not only provided a window into their pasts and the challenges they faced as immigrants but also highlighted the strength of female bonds and the importance of passing down wisdom and traditions from generation to generation. It was a powerful reminder of the resilience and strength that comes from maintaining one's culture and heritage, even in the face of adversity.The film also did an excellent job of exploring the theme of identity. Both the mothers and daughters struggledwith finding their place in the world, balancing their Chinese heritage with their American identities. This struggle was not just external, but also internal, as each character grappled with their own self-perception and the expectations of others. The film encouraged the audience to question their own identities and the role of culture and tradition in shaping them.The Joy Luck Club is a film that is both deeply personal and universally resonant. It reminds us of the importance of family, the power of female bonds, and the complexity of identity. It encourages us to embrace our own histories and cultures, while also seeking to understand and accept those who are different from us. The film left me with a sense of hope and optimism that, despite our differences, we can all find common ground and understanding if we are willing to listen and learn from each other.In conclusion, The Joy Luck Club is a film that deserves to be seen and discussed. It is a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and theimportance of understanding and acceptance. I would recommend this film to anyone interested in exploring the complexities of family relationships, the immigrant experience, and the search for identity.。

“joy”or “join”---- culture shock between the east and the westThe joy luck of club is the title of this novel. It is also held by Suyuan, Jingmei’s mother, to gather 4 families immigrated to America in 1949. What is the purpose of holding such a party each week? The answer is to be joyful as the name of party------ the joy luck club. 4 old ladies always play maijiang and tell funny stories in the party. Everyone here tries his or her best to pretend to be happy. However, deeply inside their hearts, all of them have their own sorrows.What makes them unhappy? Those pains are caused not only by their lives in old China but also by the misunderstanding of their own America-born daughters. So I think the name of the book is ironic.How come daughters do not understand their mothers? It is caused by culture shock between the east and the west.“3 obedience and 4 virtues”vs. Individual freedomIn Chinese tradition, wives must follow her own parents, husbands and parents-in-low. They are not allowed to have their own idea and have no right to choose their own life. If they do not obey the rules, they will be considered to be a bad woman. This point is shown in the first part of the book------- 4 mothers’sad lives in old China. Although they have escaped from China, they also have Chinese traditional characters.However, in America, children have equal rights with their parents. They can choose their own life in the way of they like. It is not difficult to understand why American-born daughters cannot like the way of their mothers educate them.Take Waverly for example. Lindo asks her daughter to play chess and take part in a contest. After winning the game, Lindo boasts her daughter’s prize to others. Waverly can not understand this way and even hate this. She wrangles with her mother. In her view, it is her own honor. And it is none business of her mother. She asks her mother that if she wants to show off, wins the game by herself.Mothers would like a daughter to obey their wills while daughters would like to be free and independent.Criticism Vs. EncouragementChinese parents express their love to children through criticism. On the contrary, the American people show affection through encouragement.For example, Suyuan always compares her daughter Jingmei with Waverly. She always puts out Jingmei’s bad points. These things make jingmei unhappy. She believes that her mother wants to control her and likes Waverly more than her. In order to show resistance to her mother, she decides not to play the piano that her mother tries her best to let her learn.Suyuan wants her daughter to became a swan, which represents her hope. She left fromChina for seeking a better way to live and finding a new lifestyle for women. She intent to let her daughter have been respected by others instead of being a Chinese traditional woman. However she fails. The failure is indicated at the beginning of the book. When su yuan arrived in America the immigration officials pulls her swan away from her, leaving the women fluttering her arms and with only one swan feather for a memory.It is a tragedy to Jingmei as she really has a talent for playing the piano. She does not realize it until her mother died. The treason for this tragedy is misunderstanding between 2 generations in different cultures.Chinese vs. EnglishThe linguistic barrier exists between each mother and their children. The children alsys complains their mothers’bad English mixed with Chinese words. They think their mothers are stupid while mothers think children know nothing. It shows that there is lack of communication between 2 generations.All of these show culture shock between the east and the west.At the end of the book, this situation is changed. Jingmei can understand her mother’s love; Lindo accepts Waverly’s husband who is a foreigner that she dislikes; Lena approves her value to her American husband after her mother’s advice…daughters starts to understand their mothers and the west can understand the east.Now I realize another meaning of the joy luck club. “Joy”stands for “join”It is a link between the 2 generations. In the party daughters and mothers have meals and communicate together. It is also the link between the east and the west. Mothers show Chinese dishes here and play Chinese traditional game---- maijiang. And all different colors friends gather here. It signs conciliatory of these 2 cultures.用一桌“三缺一”的麻将，牵出数个女子人生的悲欢离合，小说《喜福会》起首就不凡。

喜福会电影英语观后感英文回答："The Joy Luck Club" is a poignant and heartwarming film that explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, as well as the challenges and triumphs of the immigrant experience. Through four interwoven stories, the film delves into the lives of four Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters, showcasing the cultural divide, generational differences, and the enduring bondsthat unite them.The film's strength lies in its authentic portrayal of the immigrant experience. Each character's journey is unique, yet they all share a common thread: the struggle to find their place in a new land while preserving their cultural heritage. The film sensitively explores the challenges of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the clash between traditional values and modern aspirations.The performances by the cast are uniformly excellent, with each actress bringing a unique depth to her character. The mother-daughter relationships are particularly well-developed, showcasing the complexities and contradictions that exist within these bonds. The film also features a beautiful score by Tan Dun that perfectly captures thefilm's emotional journey.Ultimately, "The Joy Luck Club" is a film about the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit. It is a story about the sacrifices made by mothers for their children, the challenges faced by immigrants, and the enduring bonds that connect us all.中文回答：《喜福会》是一部感人至深的电影，探讨了母女之间复杂的关系，以及移民经历中的挑战和胜利。

喜福会英文观后感喜福会英文观后感The first time I saw the title of the film, the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it would be a film filed with joy, luck and happiness. However, out of my expectation, in the film, I saw many unpleasant things;conflicts, hardship, disappointment, sorrow, hurt, torture etc. Of course there were some moving parts, and fortunately, it was a happy ending. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much. It made me have a penetrating thinking.The Joy Luck Club tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other. The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic.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 demands the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouts to her mother, “You can’t make me!”Even Jingmei cried that she wish she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wishes she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicates that she is hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.This reminds me of my similar experience. Once I hurt my mother as Jingmei did. I didn’t mean to hurt her, but those wounding words just slip out of my mouth unconsciously. Often, we hate that why our parents don’t know my feelings, why they like to make us be something and totally unaware that what their children are. While the parents don’t know why all their sacrifices to the children can’t be paid off, even incite hatred. Actually, this is the generation gap that causes the misunderstanding. We don’t know the hardship our parents underwent before. They can’t understand what we are thinking. So misunderstandings appear.Maybe as a child, Jingmei cannot comprehend what herremarks 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.The other example is Waverly and her mother Lindo. Waverly tries her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approves or not becomes the master of all her choice. Even Waverly marries a Chinese man because Lindo likes Chinese, while she doesn’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize whatever she has done. On the other side, Lindo thinks that her daughter is ashamed of her, which is her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chest by herself. Every time, Lindo’s disagreement withor indifference to Waverly directly results from the thought that Waverly feels it shameful to be her daughter. 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. Fortunately, they clear up their misunderstandings and discover themselves by communicating.I am deeply moved by this scene:Waverly Jong says to Lindo, sobbing,, “You don't know, you don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again, crying myself to sleep, because nothing I do can ever, ever please you.”And after a short period of silence, Lindo smiles to Waverly with tears in her eyes, “Now, you make me happy.”Then they laugh heartily, teary-eyed with happiness.Seeing the old Lindo bursts out laughing, like a child, and Waverly laughs joyfully, I sincerely feel delighted for them. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from them.Along with above mentioned, the struggle for the women to fight for equity is also brought to the surface. For instance, Ying-ying encourages her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she madein her first marriage. And An-mei tells her daughter Rose to learn to shout at the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose has 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. Eventually, the women find their true value and win their own happiness.View from the whole film, the title, 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.首都博物馆观后感首席执行官观后感士兵突击观后感。

喜福会观后感英文喜福会观后感英文《喜福会》观后感(英文版)【一】The first time I saw the title of the film, the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it would be a film filed with joy, luck and happiness. However, out of my expectation, in the film, I saw many unpleasant things—conflicts, hardship, disappointment, sorrow, hurt, torture etc. Of course there were some moving parts, and fortunately, it was a happy ending. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much. It made me have a penetrating thinking.The Joy Luck Club tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling tounderstand each other. The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between thegenerations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic.1. what's the cultural differences? answer :These four 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. Eventually, the women find their true value and win their own happiness. Maybe it is a common Phenomenonin america, In the United States, multicultural so-called, is to maintain thenew patternconsistent sub culture and the mainstream culture, in essence, is nothing but acover up the trick, is a coverfor the sub cultural assimilation and psychologicalaggression. So, like other minority women, Chinese womenhave only to regain the original self, to break the silence and gender culture of silence, self-esteem, self-confidence, independence in their own way to face life, to eventually enter the "joy and blessing" of the realm.2.What impress me mostly?Answer:Take Waverly and her mother Lindo as an example.Waverly tries her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her motherapproves or not becomes the master of all her choice. Even Waverly marries a Chinese man because Lindo likes Chinese, while she doesn’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize whatever she has done. On the other side, Lindo thinks that her daughter is ashamed of her, which is her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chest by herself. Every time, Lindo’s disagreement with or indifference to Waverly directlyresults from the thought that Waverly feels it shameful to be her daughter. Bothof 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. Fortunately, they clear up their misunderstandings and discover themselves by communicating. I am deeply moved by this scene:Waverly Jong says to Lindo, sobbing,, “You don't know, you don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again, crying myself to sleep,beca use nothing I do can ever, ever please you.” And after a short period of silence, Lindo smiles to Waverly with tears in her eyes, “Now, you make me happy.” Then they laugh heartily, teary-eyed with happiness.Seeing the old Lindo bursts out laughing, like a child, and Waverly laughs joyfully, I sincerely feel delighted for them. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from them.lastly , 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.喜福会英文观后感【二】The first time I saw the title of the film, the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it would be a film filed with joy, luck and happiness. However, out of my expectation, in the film, I saw many unpleasant things—conflicts, hardship, disappointment, sorrow, hurt, torture etc. Of course there were some moving parts, and fortunately, it was a happy ending. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much. It made me have a penetrating thinking.The Joy Luck Club tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other. The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic.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 demands the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouts to her mother, “You can’t make me!” Even Jingmei cried that she wish she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wishes she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicates tha t she is hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.This reminds me of my similar experience. Once I hurt my mother as Jingmei did. I didn’t mean to hurt her, but those wounding words just slip out of my mouth unconsciously. Often, we hate that why our parents don’t know my feelings, why they like to make us be something and totally unaware that what their children are. While the parents don’t know why all their sacrifices to the children can’t be paid off, even incite hatred. Actually, this is the generation gap that causes the misunderstanding. We don’t know the hardship our parents underwent before. They can’t understand what we are thinking. So misunderstandings appear.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.The other example is Waverly and her mother Lindo. Waverly tries her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approves or not becomes the master of all her choice. Even Waverly marries a Chinese man because Lindo likes Chinese, while she doesn’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize whatever she has done. On the other side, Lindo thinks that her daughter is ashamed of her, which is her continual inter nal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chest by herself. Every time, Lindo’s disagreement with or indifference to Waverly directly results from the thought that Waverly feels it shameful to be her daughter. 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. Fortunately, they clear up their misunderstandings and discover themselves by communicating.I am deeply moved by this scene:Waverly Jong says to Lindo, sobbing,, “You don't know, you don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again, crying myself to sleep, because nothing I do can ever, ever please you.” And after a short period of silence, Lindo smiles to Waverly with tears in her eyes, “Now, you make me happy.” Then they laugh heartily, teary-eyed with happiness.Seeing the old Lindo bursts out laughing, like a child, and Waverly laughs joyfully, I sincerely feel delighted for them. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from them.Along with above mentioned, the struggle for the women to fight for equity is also brought to the surface. For instance, Ying-ying encourages her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she made in her first marriage. And An-mei tells her daughter Rose to learn to shout at the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose has 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. Eventually, the women find their true value and win their own happiness.View from the whole film, the title, 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.。

喜福会观后感英语版After watching the movie "喜福会" (Happiness and Fortune Society), I was deeply moved and inspired by the complex and captivating story that unfolded on the screen. "喜福会" is a Chinese film that explores the lives and struggles of a group of individuals, representing various social backgrounds and aspirations, who come together in pursuit of happiness and success.The movie starts with the introduction of the three main characters: Ping, a former gangster seeking redemption; Jia, a young migrant worker dreaming of a better life; and Hui, a talented but struggling musician. Each character faces their own personal challenges and setbacks, but is bound by the common desire for a better future.Throughout the movie, the theme of perseverance and resilience shines through. Despite the hardships they face, Ping, Jia, and Hui do not give up on their dreams. They form a unique bond and a "family" of their own, supporting and motivating each other to overcome obstacles and find happiness.One of the most remarkable aspects of "喜福会" is its portrayal of the stark realities of life in modern China. The movie depicts the stark contrast between rural and urban areas, highlighting the vast economic disparities that exist in society. Through the characters of Jia and Hui, we witness the struggles faced by migrant workers and aspiring artists, who are often marginalized and overlooked by society.The movie also delves into deeper social issues, such as corruption and the influence of money and power. Ping's journey from a former gangster to a reformed individual serves as a powerful metaphor for the redemption and transformation that can occur when one chooses the path of righteousness.Another aspect of "喜福会" that struck me was its portrayal of the value of human connection and the importance of community. The characters find solace and strength in their shared experiences and support each other through thick and thin. Their bond transcends social boundaries, reminding us of the innate desire for connection that exists within all individuals.The cinematography and visual storytelling in "喜福会" are also worthy of praise. The movie beautifully captures the essence of both rural and urban landscapes, emphasizing the contrast between the simplicity of village life and the hustle and bustle of the city. The use of light and color further enhances the emotional impact of the story, evoking a range of feelings from hope to despair.Furthermore, the performances of the actors in "喜福会" are superb. Each character is portrayed with depth and nuance, making them relatable and engaging. The chemistry between the actors is palpable, adding authenticity to their relationships on screen.In conclusion, "喜福会" is a stellar film that explores the universal themes of hope, resilience, and the pursuit of happiness. Through its compelling storyline, realistic portrayal of societal issues, and strong performances, it leaves a lasting impression on the audience. The movie serves as a reflection of the human experience, reminding us of the power of determination, the value of human connection, and the triumph of the humanspirit in the face of adversity. "喜福会" is truly a cinematic masterpiece that deserves recognition and appreciation.。

Analysis of the causes of the conflict between mother and daughter from the Cultural Perspective In "the Joy Luck Club"电影《喜福会》向我们讲述了中国母亲与美国女儿人之间沟通障碍以及她们在东方信仰与西方价值观及传统文化与现代文明之间的争执。

母亲与女儿的交流障碍不仅仅反映出两代人之间的隔阂，更反映出一种文化差异。

母亲代表的逐渐消失的传统文化，女儿代表的则是日益壮大的新型文化；母亲们坚守着特殊的国家文化，她们想要传授一些中国文化给女儿们，但却以女儿们没有满足她们的期望而失落不已。

然而，女儿们在妈妈们的期望与美国的现实中打转，最终接受了主流文化，并且嘲笑和丢弃了以她们妈妈为代表的非主流文化，在这一系列冲突的过程中，她们不断地寻求自我和社会地位，并且努力去继承她们的文化价值。

母亲们努力去调解她们“中国式的过去”和“美国当代”，而女儿们也试着寻找着自主与忠于文化遗产之间的平衡点。

The movie "the Joy Luck Club" tells us communication obstacles between Chinese mother and American daughter and their belief in eastern and Western values and the dispute of traditional culture and modern civilization. Communication barriers between the mother and the daughter reflects not only the gap between two generations, but also reflects a cultural difference. The mother on behalf of the gradual disappearance ofthe traditional culture, the daughter is the representative of the newculture growing; mothers hold special national culture, they want to teachsome Chinese culture to the girls, but because the girls do not meet their expectations and disappointed. However, the daughters between the mothers about expectationsand American reality, finally accepted the mainstream culture, and ridiculed andrejected the non mainstream culture to their mother as the representative. In this seriesof conflicts, they continue to seek self and social status, and work hardto inherit their cultural value. Mothers try to mediate their "the past of China type" and "America contemporary", while the daughters try looking for autonomy and loyal to the balance between cultural heritage.2．1个人主义与集体主义对比2.1 the contrast of individualism and collectivism个人、集体主义是衡量文化变化的重要标尺，为人与人交流之间的文化异同提供了一个强有力的解说性框架。

The Joy Luck Club(1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nguyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.CharactersMothersSuyuan WooDuring the Second World War, Suyuan lives in China while her husband at the time served as an officer in Chungking (Chongqing). She starts the original Joy Luck Club with her three friends to cope with the war. There is little to eat, but they pretend it is a feast, and talk about their hopes for the future. On the day of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan leaves her house with nothing but a bag of clothes, a bag of food, and her twin baby daughters.During the long journey, Suyuan contracts such severe dysentery that she feels certain she will die. Fearing that a dead mother would doom her babies' chances of rescue, she reluctantly and emotionally leaves her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note asking anyone who might find the babies to care for them and contact the father. Suyuan then departs, expecting to die. However, she is rescued by a truck and finds out her husband has died. She later remarries, comes to America, forms a new Joy Luck Club with three other Chinese female immigrants she met at church, and gives birth to another daughter. But her abandonment of the twin girls haunts her for the rest of her life. After many years, Suyuan learns that the twins were adopted, but dies of a brain aneurysm before she can meet them. It is her American-born daughter Jing-mei who fulfills her long-cherished wish of reuniting with her elder twin half-sisters. As Suyuan dies before the novel begins, her history is told by Jing-mei, based on her knowledge of her mother's stories, anecdotes from her father, and what the other members of the Joy Luck Club tell her.An-Mei HsuAn-Mei is raised by her grandparents and other relatives during her early years in Ningbo after her widowed mother shocks the family by becoming a concubine to a middle-aged wealthy man after her first husband's death. This becomes a source of conflict for the young An-Mei, as her aunts and uncles deeply resent her mother for such a dishonorable act. They try to convince An-Mei that it is not fitting for her to live with her disgraced mother, who is now forbidden to enter the family home. An-Mei's mother, however, still wishes to be part of her daughter's life. After An-Mei's grandmother dies, An-mei moves out to live with her mother in the home of her mother's new husband, Wu-Tsing.An-Mei learns that her mother was coerced into being Wu-Tsing's concubine through the manipulations of his Second Wife, the favorite. This woman arranged for An-Mei's mother, still in mourning for her original husband, to be raped by Wu-Tsing. The stigma left An-Mei's mother withno choice but to marry Wu-Tsing and become his new but lowly Fourth Wife. She later lost her baby son to Second Wife, who claimed the boy as her own child to ensure her place in the household. Second Wife also tried to win over An-mei upon her arrival in Wu-Tsing's mansion, giving her a necklace made of "pearls" that her mother later revealed were actually glass beads by crushing one with her teacup. An-Mei's mother re-knots the necklace to hide the missing bead, but now An-Mei knows the truth about Second Wife's seeming generosity.Wu-Tsing is a highly superstitious man, and Second Wife takes advantage of this weakness by making false suicide attempts and threatening to haunt him as a ghost if he does not let her have her way. According to Chinese tradition, a person's soul comes back after three days to settle scores with the living. Wu-Tsing, therefore, is known to be afraid to face the ghost of an angry or scorned wife. After Second Wife fakes a suicide attempt to prevent An-Mei and her mother from getting their own small house, An-Mei's mother successfully commits suicide herself, eating tangyuan laced with lethal amounts of opium. She times her death so that her soul is due to return on the first day of the new year, a day when all debts must be settled lest the debtor suffer great misfortune. With this in mind, Wu-Tsing promises to treat his Fourth Wife's children, including An-Mei, as if they were his very own flesh and blood by an honored First Wife. When Second Wife attempts to disrupt this, An-Mei crushes the fake pearl necklace Second Wife gave her beneath her feet to show her awareness of all Second Wife's deception and to symbolize her new power over Second Wife, who now fears her and realizes the bad karma she has brought upon herself.An-Mei later immigrates to America, marries, and gives birth to seven children (four sons, three daughters). The youngest, a son named Bing, drowns at age four.Lindo JongLindo is a strong-willed woman, a trait that her daughter Waverly attributes to her having been born in the year of the Horse. When Lindo was only twelve, she was forced to move in with a neighbor's young son, Huang Tyan-yu, through the machinations of the village matchmaker. After some training for household duties through her in-laws, she and Tyan-yu married when she turned sixteen. She soon realized that her husband was just a little boy at heart and had no sexual interest in her. Lindo began to care for her husband as a brother, but her cruel mother-in-law expected Lindo to produce a grandson. She restricted most of Lindo's daily activities, eventually ordering her to remain on bed rest until she could conceive and deliver a child.Determined to escape this unfortunate situation, Lindo carefully observed the other people in the household and eventually formed a clever plan to escape her marriage without dishonoring herself or her family. She managed to trick her young husband's family into believing that he was actually fated to marry another girl who was already pregnant with his "spiritual child", and that her marriage to Huang Tyan Yu would only bring bad luck to the family. In reality, the girl in question was a mere servant in the household and indeed pregnant, but abandoned by her lover.Freed from her first marriage, Lindo decided to emigrate to America. She married a Chinese-American man named Tin Jong and has three children: sons Winston and Vincent, and daughter Waverly.Lindo experiences regret over losing some of her Chinese identity by living so long in America (she is treated like a tourist on a visit to China); however, she expresses concern that Waverly's American upbringing has formed a barrier between them.Ying-Ying "Betty" St. ClairFrom a young age, Ying-Ying is told by her wealthy and conservative family that Chinese girls should be meek and gentle. This is especially difficult for her, she feels, because she is a Tiger character. She begins to develop a passive personality and repress her feelings as she grows up in Wuxi. Ying-Ying marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, not out of love, but because she believed it was her fate. Her husband is revealed to be abusive and openly has extramaritalrelationships with other women. When Ying-Ying discovers she is pregnant, she gets an abortion and makes the decision to live with her relatives in a smaller city in China.After ten years, she moves to Shanghai and works in a clothing store, where she meets an American man named Clifford St. Clair. He falls in love with her, but Ying-Ying cannot express any strong emotion after her first marriage. He courts her for four years before she agrees to marry him after learning that Lin Xiao had died, which she takes as the proper sign to move on. She allows Clifford to control most aspects of her life, mistranslating her words and actions, and even changing her name to "Betty". Ying-Ying gives birth to her daughter, Lena, after moving to San Francisco with St. Clair. When Lena is around ten years old, Ying-Ying becomes pregnant a third time, but the baby boy is anencephalic and soon dies.Ying-Ying is horrified when she realizes that Lena, a Tiger like herself, has inherited or emulated her passive behaviors and trapped herself in a loveless marriage with a controlling husband. She finally resolves to call upon the more assertive qualities of her Tiger nature, to appeal to those qualities in Lena. She will tell Lena her story in the hope that she will be able to break free from the same passivity that ruined most of her young life back in China.DaughtersJing-Mei "June" WooJing-Mei has never fully understood her mother and seems directionless in life. During June's childhood, her mother used to tell her that she could be anything she wants; however, she particularly wanted her daughter to be gifted, a child star who amazes the world, like Ginny Tiu (seen briefly on television) or June's rival Waverly. At the beginning of the novel, June is chosen to replace her mother's seat in the Joy Luck Club after her mother's death. At the end of the novel, June is still trying to deal with her mother's death, and she visits China to see the twin half-sisters (Wang Chwun Yu and Wang Chwung Hwa) whom her mother had been forced to abandon when the Japanese attacked China.One critic[who] has suggested[1] that the reason for the communication gap between Jing-Mei and her mother, and between the other daughters and their mothers—a major theme of the novel—occurs because the mothers come from a high context culture and the Americanized daughters from a low context culture. The mothers believe that the daughters will intuitively understand their cryptic utterances, but the daughters don't understand them at all.Rose Hsu JordanRose is somewhat passive and is a bit of a perfectionist. She had an unsettling childhood experience when her youngest brother, Bing, drowned while she was supposed to be watching him, and his body was never recovered. Rose marries a doctor, Ted Jordan, who loves her but also wants to spite his snooty, racist mother. After a malpractice suit, Ted has a mid-life crisis and decides to leave Rose. Rose confides in her mother and An-mei tells her the story of her own childhood. When Ted comes for the divorce papers, Rose finds her voice and tells him that he can't just throw her out of his life, comparing herself to his garden, once so beloved, now unkempt and full of weeds. An-Mei tells her that Ted has been cheating on her, which Rose thinks is absurd, but she later discovers this to be true. She wants to hire a good lawyer and fight for possession of the house, which she eventually wins.Waverly JongWaverly is an independent-minded and intelligent woman, but is annoyed by her mother's constant criticism. Well into her adult life, she finds herself restrained by her subconscious fear of letting her mother down. During their childhood, June and Waverly become childhood rivals; their mothers constantly compared their daughter's development and accomplishments. Waverly was once a gifted chess champion, but quit after feeling that her mother was using her daughter'stalent to show off, taking credit for Waverly's wins. She has a daughter, Shoshana, from her first marriage with Marvin, and is currently engaged to her boyfriend Rich Shields.Lena St. ClairThroughout Lena's childhood, she gradually becomes her mother's voice and interprets her mother's Chinese words for others. Like her father Clifford, she translates Ying-ying's words to sound more pleasant than what Ying-ying actually says. Ying-ying has taught Lena to beware of consequences, to the extent that Lena visualizes disaster in the taking of any risk. Lena's husband, Harold, is also her boss. He takes the credit for Lena's business and design ideas. He demands financial "equality" in their marriage. Lena is an associate while Harold is a partner, so he has a larger salary than she does. However, he insists that all household expenses be divided equally between them. Harold believes that by making everything equal, they can make their love equal as well. Lena feels frustrated and powerless.Table of contentsFeathers from a Thousand Li Away"The Joy Luck Club," Jing-mei "June" Woo"Scar," An-Mei Hsu"The Red Candle," Lindo Jong"The Moon Lady," Ying-Ying St ClairThe Twenty-Six Malignant Gates"Rules of the Game," Waverly Jong"The Voice from the Wall," Lena St. Clair"Half and Half," Rose Hsu Jordan"Two Kinds," Jing-mei "June" WooAmerican Translation"Rice Husband," Lena St. Clair"Four Directions," Waverly Jong"Without Wood," Rose Hsu Jordan"Best Quality," Jing-mei "June" WooQueen Mother of the Western Skies"Magpies," An-mei Hsu"Waiting Between the Trees," Ying-Ying St. Clair"Double Face," Lindo Jong"A Pair of Tickets," Jing-mei "June" WooCriticismThough Amy Tan's book has been widely praised by critics, it has also been alleged by Chinese-American author Frank Chin that it perpetuates racist stereotypes.[2][3][4] Chinese-American director Wayne Wang was impressed with the story and created a film version of the novel.[5]References^ CUNY Brooklyn article^ Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake^ The Joy Luck Club^ Review: The Joy Luck Club^ "Asian images in film spotlight - The Joy Luck Club". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 3 July 2008.。

电影《喜福会》的文化冲突解读摘要：本文从文化冲突的角度分析英文电影《喜福会》，通过对比母亲与女儿展现了中国和美国文化之间的冲突，交流与融合，因此母亲与女儿的关系则传达了更为深远的含意，不仅仅反映了中美文化之间的差异，还预知了在全球化的舞台上，不同国家、种族和文化应该采取的态度。

从冲突、误解到和解和真正的理解贯穿全文，同样也表达了另一个主题和全球的趋势就是不同的文化可以相互共存并且相互繁荣。

关键词：文化冲突；《喜福会》；母女角色正文：一根羽毛，本来长在旧上海市场一只鹅的身上。

当这只鹅漂洋过海来到异乡，却被剥夺了入境的权力，只留下一根羽毛，伴随女主人一路珠箔飘灯……“我要在美国生一个像我一样的女儿。

但是，在那里没有人会根据她丈夫打嗝的响亮程度来衡量她的身价；没有人会瞧不起她，因为我会让她讲一口漂亮的美国英语；在那里她将无忧无虑，她将理解我的一番苦心，因为将送给她这只天鹅——一只超乎想象的美丽天鹅。

”——电影《喜福会》以这样的开场白开始了四个华裔美国家庭、四位母亲的寻梦之旅。

影片中，母亲和女儿的关系反映了中国文化和美国文化的关系。

女儿们出生并成长在美国，并且被美国社会同化。

她们不能理解母亲及其复杂的爱与目的。

所以，女儿们觉得母亲们不但没有疼爱她们反而误解她们，甚至将她们贬值，因此母亲们对她们的爱也常常被误解和忽视。

从西方人的观点来看，她们的母亲很冷漠，没感情。

于是母亲与女儿们的矛盾油然而生，并且因此而疏远。

由于文化冲突导致的母女之间的误解与矛盾将持续很长一段时间并很难缓和。

最后，母女关系有了很大的改善，暗示着两种文化的和解。

文化表面的不同是人类文化体系的两个方面。

当母女都意识到这一点，母亲们让女儿们知道她们的过去、她们的文化，女儿们帮助她们实现理想和梦想。

最后，文化冲突被打破，她们最后开始理解彼此，相互协调及融合。

一、文化冲突之顺从与独立中国社会有着高权利距离的文化，对长辈顺从，这一点在影片中的例子比比皆是，主要表现在母亲们的生活中。

《喜福会》影评The joy luck of club is held by Suyuan, Jingmei’s mother, to gather 4 families immigrated to America in 1949. However, all of them have their own sorrows.Their daughters do not understand their mothers，It is caused by culture shock between the east and the west.firstly, in America, children have equal rights with their parents. They can choose their own life in the way of they like. Mothers would like a daughter to obey their wills while daughters would like to be free and independent.secendly,Chinese parents express their love to children through criticism. On the contrary, the American people show affection through encouragement.thirdly,The linguistic barrier exists between each mother and their children. It shows that there is lack of communication between 2 generations.But at the end of the book, this situation is changed and these two cultures are reconciling. daughters starts to understand their mothers and the west can understand the east.It is also the link between the east and the west.俱乐部的欢乐是由苏、美的母亲，采集4个家庭移居美国1949。

The first time I saw the name of this movie------The Joy Luck Club, I thought it must be an interesting comedy. However, after watching it, I found it was very instructive and meaningful. The Joy Luck Club tells stories about four mothers and their daughters. There are eight main characters, Suyuan, June (Suyuan’s daughter), Lindo, Waverly (Lindo’s daughter), Ying Ying, Lena (Ying Ying’s daughter), An Mei, and Rose (An Mei’s daughter).The four mother’s all spend their miserable youth in old China. Suyuan, who had already been a mother of twin girls, had to struggled in the fleeing refugee columns and she was almost starved to death. Finally, she decided to leave her babies under a tree and hoped that someone kind would adopt her children. After settling down in America, Suyuan had a girl named June. Suyuan pinned all her hope on June, treating June very strictly, which made June repressive and disappointed about herself. Lindo was a quite smart and strong woman. She was made to be a child bride and was treated badly in her husband’s family, but she escaped from this fate intelligently. Lindo was such a strong mother that her daughter Waverly found it too difficult to get on well with her mother, let alone make her mother happy. Ying Ying married a handsome guy when she was only sixteen. Her husband was actually a bastard who always had affairs with other women, and didn’t care about Ying Ying and their son. Ying Ying was too weak to fight against his husband, and nearly went to pieces. She drowned her own baby boy, which left a severe and deep hurt to her. Ying Ying’s daughter, Lena, was also a failure in managing her marriage for she didn’t how to protect herself’s rights. An Mei’s mother，who remarried a man (An Mei’s stepfather)who had already married another three women, was bullied and humiliated, living painfully. In order to revenge and make An Mei strong, An Mei’s mother committed suicide. However, Rose, An Mei’s daughter, was just like her grandmother. Rose was so obedient to her husband that she lost herself.There are many topics in this movie, two of which impressed me are the cultural conflict between America and China, and the love given by mothers to daughters.The four mothers are Chinese mothers, although they have been deeply influenced by American cultural. The four daughters are bore and grow up in American, that is to say, to a certain extend, they are totally Americans except their root. June’s mother push her very hard in order to make her outstanding. However, June didn’t like this typical Chinese way of education because she thought her mother made her very stressful and she should be brought up in American way but not be made by her mother. June found she could never be successful like what her mother hoped, and she couldn’t feel her mother’s gentle love. However, it is not because Suyuan didn’t love June that she treated June strictly but because June, in fact, bore the hope her mother had in her twin sisters. June complained that her mother couldn’t see her clear inside, but Suyuan did understand her own daughter, she could see June’s good qualities others couldn’t notice------that is very valuable mother’s love in Chinese way. On the other hand, Waverly found that no matter how she tried hard, she couldn’t pleased her mother. In American eyes, Lindo required too much about Waverly and her boyfriend Rich, always pointing something bad or not so good. As far as Waverly was concerned, she couldn’t find out why her mother was so difficultand even harsh. But in Lindo’s view, since Waverly loved Rich so much, Rich should be considered as a part of her family and it couldn’t be more normal to point her families’weak points. However, Waverly couldn’t understand her mother’s way of accepting Rich. Rose’s marriage was almost destroyed by herself, but she didn’t know why and what to do. Rose respected and loved her husband very much, and she even let him to decide what to eat for dinner. Maybe in China, this kind of obedient wives are very popular, but in American, totally not. Rose didn’t know what she wanted and how much herself valued. An Mei told her mother’s story to Rose, which helped Rose to be clear about her own value and find herself, and finally, Rose’s love was saved. Lena was a very gentle girl who always swallowed her own bitterness but didn’t know how to protect herself. Lena ‘s husband insisted going Dutch about everything, maybe Americans thought it was quite normal, but we Chinese thought a husband should care his wife and take more responsibilities. It’s obviously Lena couldn’t stand her husband, but she was too weak to give up the marriage and change her life. In the end, with Ying Ying’s guidance, Lena left her husband bravely.Mothers love us in different ways, and some love are not so gentle. Mothers experience a lot, and they are always trying to help their daughters be away from pain and sorrow, but sometimes, daughters can’t listen to their mothers or believe them. However, our parents may be somewhat conventional, but their experiences are valuable, and we should believe no matter what they say or do to us, it does not mean to hurt us.I was touched by this movie and really learned a lot. Communication between parents and children is very important. If we can’t understand the way in which our parents treat us, we should communicate with them but not misunderstand them. What’s more, we should believe in our parents. Many teenagers just believe in their own beliefs and even regard our parents’ words as cliche. However, our parents may be somewhat conventional, but their experiences are valuable, and we should believe no matter what they say or do to us, it does not mean to hurt us.My mother is quite a traditional mother, and she is always worried about me especially after I have a boyfriend. She told me a lot about how to be clever in love, but I just thought it was not useless and I was mature enough to handle love. But after I was hurt in love, I really regretted not to follow my mother. Just like in The Joy Luck Club, it is the mothers who save Lena’s and Rose’s love.。

The Joy Luck Club, as stated in the movie's opening narrative, is a collection of four aging Chinese women bound together more by hope than joy or luck. The four women - Suyuan (Kieu Chinh), Lindo (Tsai Chin), Ying Ying (France Nuyen), and An Mei (Lisa Lu) - came to America many years ago to escape China's feudal society for the promise of the United States' democracy. Now, however, Suyuan has died and the three surviving members of the club invite her daughter June (Ming-Na Wen) to take her place. June belongs to the "new" generation, those of Chinese heritage who grew up speaking English and learning American customs. Also of roughly the same age are Waverly (Tamlyn Tomita), Lindo's daughter; Lena (Lauren Tom), Ying Ying's daughter; and Rose (Rosalind Chao), An Mei's daughter. The Joy Luck Club tells of the varied difficulties and tragedies involved in these mother/daughter relationships.Co-writer Ronald Bass (who, along with Amy Tan, adapted from Tan's novel) says that there are sixteen separate stories in The Joy Luck Club. Since I didn't count, I can't verify this statement, but it sounds about right. Taken as a whole, these vignettes combine to lend greater meaning to the whole. The Joy Luck Club is the sum total of its parts with common themes giving solid grounding and greater resonance to the overall film. As Bass comments, "I saw all the mothers' and daughters' stories as facets of the same experience. Put together, they formed a mosaic. That's the genius of the book, and if we cut it down to just a couple of stories it would be like any other movie."The stories are not related in such a manner as to seem pared down or truncated, nor is their presentation confusing, thanks to acleverly-orchestrated framing scene with the principal characters gathered together. However, it is apparent that a lot more could have been told, and we're left wondering about all that we didn't get to see. The characters are mostly well-developed, but it's tantalizing to consider how much fuller some of them could have been with a different plot structure.The Joy Luck Club is clearly - perhaps too clearly - an adaptation of a book. The dialogue is often too poetic to be real, and the story too clearly plotted to be acceptable as anything more than an imperfect reflection of the world we live in. The line between drama and melodrama is a fine one, and, while The Joy Luck Club most often successfully navigates the tightrope, there are times when it slips and comes across as heavy-handed. This film is no stranger to moments of manipulation.The characters are The Joy Luck Club's real strength. Many are played by more than one actor (as children then adults, for example), but all transitions are smooth and seamless. It's as easy to accept both a littlegirl and the beautiful, sophisticated-looking Tamlyn Tomita as Waverly, and that's because the characters transcend the performers portraying them.It's fascinating and satisfying the way the diverse threads are knitted together into a single tapestry. The Joy Luck Club's message is one of hope -- that catharsis and emotional fulfillment often come through tragedy. Sure, a lot of bad things happen during the course of this film, but at the end, the tears are of happiness and new beginnings, not loss.Thanks to the popularity of actors such as Jackie Chan ("Rush Hour 2"), Jet Li ("Kiss of the Dragon"), Chow Yun-fat ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), and Lucy Liu ("Charlie's Angels"), seeing Asian faces on the silver screen has become almost commonplace these days. However, not too long ago, Asian actors in Hollywood were usually relegated to playing unflattering bit parts, such as gang members, prostitutes, martial arts masters, enemy soldiers, or the 'token oriental'. At that time, crafting a drama with an all-Asian cast (with a Chinese director no less) was almost inconceivable. Yet in 1993, director Wayne Wang (best known for "Smoke" and "Chinese Box") and producer Oliver Stone ("Any Given Sunday") pulled it off by bringing Amy Tan's best-selling novel "The Joy Luck Club" to the big screen. And though the story is deeply entrenched in theAsian-American experience, "The Joy Luck Club" ends up transcending all races and cultures with its heartfelt examination of the special bond between mothers and their daughters.The 'Joy Luck Club' of the title refers to four women who immigrated from China to the United States long ago: An Mei (Lisa Lu), Ying Ying (France Nuyen), Lindo (Tsai Chin, heard recently in "Titan A.E."), and Suyuan (Kieu Chinh of "Riot in the Streets"). The story is framed by a large get-together of the extended families of the 'Joy Luck Club', although Suyuan has recently passed away. The reason for the celebration is the imminent departure of Suyuan's American-born daughter June (Ming-Na Wen, heard recently in "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within"), who is traveling to China to meet two half-sisters she has never met. Also in attendance are Lindo's daughter Waverly (Tamlyn Tomita, who starred in the "Babylon 5" pilot episode), Ying Ying's daughter Lena (Lauren Tom), and An Mei's daughter Rose (Rosalind Chao of "What Dreams May Come").As the film unfolds, a series of well-orchestrated flashbacks (sixteen in total) tell the stories of the 'Joy Luck Club' and their American-born daughters. Though these two generations grew up in different times and places, the former in a land where women were little more than chattel and the latter in an environment that encouraged personal freedom and the departure from tradition, their struggles have far more in common than not. In addition to telling how June's mother was forced to leave her twin daughters by a roadside in China, the audience gets a glimpse of how Lindo was once married to a ten-year old spoiled brat, the agonizing sacrifice of An Mei's mother (Vivian Wu of "The Last Emperor") to safeguard a better life for her daughter, and Ying Ying's act of vengeance against a philandering husband (Russell Wong of "Romeo Must Die"). All of their experiences in pre-revolutionary China have a direct bearing on the lives of their daughters, who end up re-learning the same agonizing lessons in modern-day America: Lena's broken marriage where activity-based costing runs amuck, the struggles of Waverly and June to please their mothers, and Rose's inability to ascertain her true self-worth."The Joy Luck Club" is not an easy film to sit through, as the lives of these women seem to have little joy or luck. However, despite the hardship, it is clear that there is something that the 'Joy Luck Club' has an abundance of: hope of a better life for their daughters. This is the common motivation that underlies all the vignettes, and even though the courageous acts of self-sacrifice are not always overt or well understood by the daughters, they remain powerful testaments to the unbreakable ties between a mother and her child.Though most of the vignettes are heartbreaking, there are moments of unexpected pleasure, such as how Lindo is able to outsmart her way out of her loveless marriage, the appalling table manners of Waverly's gwei lo fiancé (Christopher Rich), or the comic rel ief courtesy of June's deaf piano teacher. And even if you are not Chinese or even female, there are plenty of small moments that will resonate with anyone who has ever been a parent or child (which includes just about everyone), such as June's childhood battles with her mother over piano lessons, or how Lindo takes pleasure in bragging about Waverly's prowess in chess.The only criticism that can be leveled against "The Joy Luck Club" is the wavering quality of the acting and the scripted dialogue. At times, particularly in the scenes that take place in the modern day, the film seems to stumble with pretentious-sounding line delivery and overly flowery conversation. Thankfully, there is an underlying earnestness to the story, and coupled with Wang's skillful direction, these transgressions are forgivable.Though "The Joy Luck Club" ends in tears, they are not borne out of sadness. Instead, they are tears of joy as the torch of hope and the aspirations of a better life are passed on to a new generation. Likewise, despite the poignant material, "The Joy Luck Club" ends up being an uplifting film. Not only does it honor the sacrifices often made by one generation for the next, but it also offers a glimpse of the sort of connection we would all like to share with our parents.Most films these days are easy to describe because they fit into types such as love stories or thrilliers. But The Joy Luck Club, which was based on the novel written by Amy Tan, is different. It is a story about love and conflicts between four daughters and their mothers.The story is set in San Francisco in the recent past .It shows us the lives of four Chinese women who were new immigrants to Sanfrancisco during the 1950s. The four women acquaint themselves with each other by playing mahjong. They became closed friends because they had similar experiences and they called themselves the Joy Luck Club. As a mother, each of them has a lot of problems with their daughter.Obviously, the conflicts are caused by mothers’ and daughters’ generatio n gaps and growing backgrounds. The mothers grew up in China where there are many traditions and rules to follow. However, the daughters grew up in San Francisco and live in an American way. When their daughters grow up, they are expected to marry people that their mothers know and agree to. In this movie, the tender and complicated love between mothers and daughters certainly impressed me a lot. In my real life , I always have conflicts with my mother .Sometimes my mother think that I am too rebellious and disobedient, while I often complain that my mother does not understand me at all. After reading this book, I begin to think from my mother's stance,As the author says, “this is a novel for mothers, daughters, and those that love them.” It is a serious st ory and tells us many things about generation gap and culture barriers which every one of us will encounter. I would definitely recommend it.The Joy Luck Club is a movie based on the bestselling novel by Amy Tan of the same name. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. It combines the stories of mothers and daughters to tell one sincere story of friendship. It is one of the finest pieces of acting collaberations among an ensemble cast. It also combines foriegn film with American film in a way giving it a new style. This movie is almost ten years old. For me it never gets old and the stories are also fresh. I like the set up of the movie or the sequence rather, better than the book. It seemed to make more sense. It also has the movie and book on the same level of unique style and everlasting stories to go along with it. Many of the performances were powerful. Even those who only spoke the Chinese language in the film should have gotten awards for performances that made me laugh and cry. I would recommend this film to anyone who wants to see an honestly good film without the Hollywood hype. Rent it, you won't regret it.Screenwriter Bass and novelist Tan have skilfully adapted her best-seller into a slick, complicated, overlong, saga about different generations of Asian women in the States.Four Chinese women meet each week at the Joy Luck (mah-jong) 俱乐部 in San Francisco. Their four daughters are well assimilated into US society and match the natives in theirconcern with trivial everyday problems. In stark contrast, the lives of the elderly women are intercut as they discuss and recall early hardships. Wang manages to control thenumerous strands, handle the talented cast and raise this weepie several notches above soap.。