Mother and daughter

Abbie 2022-01-16 08:02:34

I borrowed the joy luck club more than once in college, and never read more than 20 pages. I missed this book early, but after a few years, I finally watched the movie, and the experience of these years has allowed me to understand so many detailed emotions in it.
This is a movie worth watching a lot, because it has too many details and covers too many aspects of women. It's like reading a prose. You can't read a whole book at a glance, because every essay has its own theme, and every essay is heavy. If you read too much, you won't be able to digest it.
There is never a way to say what kind of relationship a mother and daughter are. We are the people who love each other the most in the world, so we are also the most capable of hurting each other. We can’t understand each other for most of our lives or our entire lives. We just love each other, but we don’t really understand each other. Because it is too easy for us to think that we know each other and what we give to each other is the best, but in fact those are not the most needed. The relationship between mother and daughter is simply impossible to be treated objectively and rationally. Just like when I think of my future daughter, I want to teach her to be kind, to teach her to be brave, to teach her what is true beauty and what is not, etc. The lessons drawn from my life, I thought it would be good for her . But the truth may be just like my mother did to me, she thought she chose all the routes for me, and I would live the happiest life as I walked, but the result is that we have a lot of things we can’t say, a lot of understanding but we can’t do it. The desire to arrive, often compromises oneself in order to please the other party. I look at my mother now, just like watching a child. One I have to consider her a lot of feelings, to coax her, to say something to make him happy, and to persuade her to go to the hospital if she is not feeling well, and so on, and I will always Can't change oneself. I know that in this matter of my feelings, I will hurt her very deeply. I asked myself why I hurt the person who loves me most. But I, the me who she was born and created, had no way to give up a little of my own thoughts because of this. I could only stand where I was, without stepping back, and then watched her feel uncomfortable and compromise. When I see all this soberly and see the only result, I am indeed more uncomfortable than her. So I'd rather give her more time and more time to reduce the severity of the pain. Mom can't see all of this, she still beautifully believes that I will always be a good daughter who listens to her, she let me leave whoever falls in love with whom I go to which city to buy whatever car I will do, just like when I was a child. She firmly believes that these do not exist.

Seeing the bottom line, the Joy Luck Club is not talking about cultural differences. It is the eternal relationship between mother and daughter. Culture is only a carrier, not a cause.
As a stubborn daughter like me, there are many friends around me. We will make our own decisions when making choices, and we must be worthy of our own hearts. We love our mothers, but there is no way to obey our words because of this. Obedience and love are not the same thing. Although we still say She is the BEST mum in the world.

I want to say more than that. This is a good film, and it's worth buying a book and watching it slowly. I hope I can show my mom if there is a Chinese version. I'm not disobedient, not that I don't love her, it's just that I am myself, and I am very similar to her.

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The Joy Luck Club quotes

  • Rose: You're not taking my house, you're not taking my daughter, you're not taking any part of me, because you don't know who I am. I died sixty years ago. I ate opium and I died for my daughter's sake. Now get out of my house!

  • Jing-Mei 'June' Woo: I'm just sorry that you got stuck with such a loser, that I've always been so disappointing.

    Suyuan: What you mean disappoint? Piano?

    Jing-Mei 'June' Woo: Everything: my grades, my job, not getting married, everything you expected of me.

    Suyuan: Not expect anything! Never expect! Only hope! Only hoping best for you. That's not wrong, to hope.

    Jing-Mei 'June' Woo: No? Well, it hurts, because every time you hoped for something I couldn't deliver, it hurt. It hurt me, Mommy. And no matter what you hope for, I'll never be more than what I am. And you never see that, what I really am.