female awakening

Guy 2022-03-22 09:02:40

The Joy Luck Club is really, really good. I feel that I have a thorough grasp of some elements of our traditional culture, and discuss this very sharp question: Integrating into another culture

. About the cultural conflicts faced by a group of Chinese-Americans in the early last century and the encounters and conflicts branded by an era. legend. When a group of women tried to integrate into American society, they encountered different problems; it was also a group of Chinese women's rethinking and awakening of obedience and individual consciousness, thinking about their life experiences. I think it is also a must-see for feminism.

Among this group of women, some people are willing to obey and assist their American husband, but the husband wants her to have his own opinions and quarrel with him. , resist marriage with wit; some people separate accounts from their husbands for all the details of their lives, every one, as small as an ice cream - what is their marriage, and what else is there in their marriage; They can escape the fate of being betrayed by their husbands; some people are expelled from big families and parted with their biological daughters.

The two little girls in the unforgettable film carry all the expectations of the two mothers - even if the mother argues that it is hope rather than expectation, I think this argument is ultimately weak. The two children became the target of the comparison between the two mothers, and the two children became the capital for their respective mothers to show off. A girl plays the piano, a girl plays chess, and they all end up being forced into disinterest. The last child said something: Since you are promoting the magazine with my photo on the cover, why don't you learn chess yourself? I especially liked the two girls part, maybe because of the sympathy aroused in the crowd of my life? Maybe it's because I've been feeling the generation gap so strongly lately—even though my dear parents didn't force me to be anything—even though I didn't.

Every woman in the film has an unfortunate past, the misfortune brought by the feudal family, the misfortune brought about by survival in the gap between Eastern and Western cultures, the misfortune brought about by gender inequality, and so on. Some of them stopped fighting—or some of them didn't know the concept of "resistance" at all; some of them had been fighting silently, but the results were not the same. different roads.

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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.