joy and luck

Kirstin 2022-04-23 07:03:55

I hope you take the ardent hope of your family, glide on the wind and dance the most special arc.

They go to great lengths to teach you life lessons, not for you to be another of them, to take over their unfulfilled dreams, to live their ideal life, but to fear that you will repeat the same mistakes. Who did not miss a few steps, you know, when you coincidentally walked into the same fork in the road with your parents, and you walked through it easily under the guidance, their suffering was not in vain.

After all, "The Joy Luck Club" tells not one story, but multiple stories, involving four families and three generations of women. They are kneaded together in the traditional form of mahjong with the most Chinese characteristics, but if you think about it carefully, it actually involves several stories about a dozen women, which can be said to reflect the cultural history of Chinese women for a century. It bears the humiliation and oppression imposed on Chinese women over the years, and reflects the cry and struggle of those women who have been bullied, as well as the extraordinary journey to independence and dignity.

On 2016/11.8

PS: This movie is known by English corner and watched in the second year of the college.

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The Joy Luck Club quotes

  • An-Mei: It was an old tradition. Only the most dutiful of daughters would put her own flesh in a soup to save her mother's life. My mother did this with her whole heart even though my grandmother had disowned her. This is how a daughter honors her mother. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. This is the most important sacrifice a daughter can make for her mother.

  • An-Mei: I tell you the story because I was raised the Chinese way. I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, and to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way. Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl, and I was born to my mother and I was born a girl, all of us like stairs, one step after another, going up, going down, but always going the same way. No, this cannot be, this not knowing what you're worth, this not begin with you. My mother not know her worth until too late - too late for her, but not for me. Now we will see if not too late for you, hmm?