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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  • Anne 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Large oriental school scene. Not to mention the author's position, but to justify the idea that Chinese tradition (not to mention the simple homogeneous imagination) kills women, the logic and details are rigid. A lot of bugs 1. How can these mothers who are either low-level or murderous cross the ocean to become a rich wife in the United States? 2. Is the way to escape from home superstitious? This is too naive to imagine the patriarchal system. 3. The awakening of the mother's independent consciousness has no foundation. Why do these bottom-level mothers suddenly want to rebel. So weird.

  • Carroll 2022-03-21 09:03:01

    For the characterization of the four stories, the supporting characters of each story and the objective factors of the protagonist are ignored. Although the four stories are well told, they are slightly superficial. But this is still a good film. The director is Chinese after all, and he expresses the delicate and sincere emotions in Chinese culture very well. In addition, when using the four mother-daughter stories in the whole film to extend to the thinking level of Chinese and Western cultures through the mother-daughter relationship, it is still expressed more clearly and thoroughly.

The Joy Luck Club quotes

  • June's Father: You know, ever since Mommy died, it's like a mystery where everything is. She hides everything, jewelry, even fake stuff. For three years she tried to tell me where she hides everything in case she died. I guess I wasn't listening.

  • June's Father: She thought: better not die next to my babies. Nobody saves babies with such bad luck. Who wants two babies with ghost mother following them? Very bad luck, very.