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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  • Michael 2022-03-24 09:03:20

    Exorbitant, first of all, this film does not have any structure, it is that everyone's perspective flashes back and cuts (accompanied by various narrations), which is a failure, because it is unable to integrate the expression into a story through details; secondly, the director's vision of China in the old society It is taken for granted, knowing what he is going to say, there is really no need to touch things beyond personal experience and lack of in-depth understanding; in the end, even Chinese lines in Mandarin are super plastic.

  • Lee 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    It feels very contrived and twisted. Watching these Chinese people speak English with a straight face is really alienating. The conflict between Chinese family ethics and Western freedom and independence, coupled with the legend of the author's grandma's young grandmother, completes the lyrical feminist epic to complete the identity positioning puzzle of Chinese women who have been struggling for many years. Simply put, it's rude.

The Joy Luck Club quotes

  • Huang Tai Tai: Where are my grandsons, huh? My son says he's planted enough seeds in you to fill a basket, plenty for ten thousand grandsons! It's all your fault, always running around, letting my son's seeds spill out. From now on you lie in bed all day. Lie down! Lie down! Until my grandson comes! Do you hear me? Disgusting little thing!

  • Lindo Jong: I told them the matchmaker had made the wrong match on purpose, just for money.

    Huang Tai Tai: Matchmaker, how could you? How could you?

    Matchmaker: Well, mistakes happen in heaven.