“I will tell them this feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.”
After watching "The Joy Luck Club", my first impression is that it has been less than 100 years since Chinese women stood up, but they have been kneeling for thousands of years. It opens with two middle-class Chinese American mothers who use their daughters to show off each other and talk sour words. I thought this film was about a simple mother-daughter reconciliation story, but in the era of mother and daughter, mothers who went through the era of war and chaos , it must not be that simple. Sure enough, the stories behind the four mothers were written with blood and tears. Plot synopsis The first mother Lin Duo, the child bride-in-law of a large feudal family, had to prepare at a very young age that she would not be able to see her relatives again in her whole life. Her mother left with her two sons, and she was entrusted to a stranger Meeting, the little husband who was raised fat and big ears, endured the humiliation of the evil mother-in-law, if she did nothing, there is no accident, just like those women in the crowd, her life will be annihilated in this old society. In the family, it is not surprising at all. But she resisted, and she remembered the words her mother had told her the night before saying goodbye, "Have a backbone and make up your own mind." Daughter Wei Li is as strong, nimble, and competitive as she is. She has a unique talent, but because her mother used her to show off to others, she gave up playing chess because of rebellious psychology. Her mother was cruel to her, and even mocked her coldly when she was about to play chess again. In the end, she did nothing in chess. Very typical Chinese parents, the daughter spends her life trying to please her mother, sacrificing her marriage and freedom, training her fiancé, and she has become different, difficult to please, and she also picks up on her mother when she looks back. In the end, the mother and daughter reconciled after the mother lowered her posture first, and the mother said, "I'm afraid you will feel ashamed of me." So what if the daughter is not. Many people have never waited for this reconciliation in their entire lives, because of the repression and restraint inherent in our cultural attributes, so that we cannot wait for our parents to let go of their stance, and we can only rely on ourselves to "have the backbone and make up our own minds." The second mother Ying Ying, the weakest looking woman, married a playboy by mistake in her most beautiful years, but she was an arrogant and shameless man who grew up in a patriarchal society. She wanted to kill him, but was weakly defeated, and finally drowned her own child, a baby, with her own hands. The daughter, Li Na, looks very ordinary. In the words of her mother Yingying, she "has no soul". Like young Yingying herself, she is beautiful but has no soul. And the salary is her 7. 5 times the owner of her own company is in love and married, and uses a strict AA system to gain dignity. Her husband doesn't care about her at all, and she doesn't even know that she can't eat ice cream. The mother was confused for the first time, but at the final moment she was sober. There was discord in her daughter's home. When the mother awakened her daughter's soul, the soundtrack and the camera were shocking. There is a saying that if you want to fall in love with a person, you should go out with this person more. If something bad happens, it is because God told you not to be together. There are no small things in life, and there are foreshadowings everywhere. is a metaphor. In a broken relationship, the small fissures are everywhere. Things don't break here, they're there. It's all foreshadowing, and if you're not happy with what you've got, flip the table before things get any worse. The third mother, An Mei, An Mei's mother was a widow. She was favored by the warlord. After being abused, her parents didn't care. She had no choice but to marry the warlord's youngest concubine. ". In the end, she was like all the ghosts floating in the sky above the cannibalistic culture of thousands of years. She committed suicide by eating smoke and soil, and regained justice and status with a tragic death and folk superstition. This kind of justice Dou E discussed, Meng Jiangnu discussed, and finally turned into a smear of blood in history. This kind of fairness is asking: "I am the same life as you, born equal, what makes me less important? Why are you more noble than me?" Daughter Rose, her mother raised her with a completely opposite cultural education , It was quite effective at first, and the second generation of rich Americans fell in love with her and turned against her mother for her. After marriage, Rose still couldn't help being drawn into the whirlpool of housewives. Even a senior housewife, she gave up herself first in all choices, and she felt that she was insignificant, because whether it was the three obedience and four virtues of Chinese culture or the obedience to you in the American Bible. Not one of your husbands told her that you were born equal to others, regardless of gender identity. The fourth mother, Su, an infatuated and kind-hearted mother, with her two twin babies, was pushed to flee the desert by the crowd of refugees. She struggled to push a wheelbarrow, and she would not let go even if her hand was bleeding. Her story is told separately. At first I thought she just gave up or felt that the child was a burden. She has come a long way, and I really can't blame her. After thinking about it, which mother can lose her two children who are nine months pregnant, it is because she has dysentery, and she is afraid that no one will want them to die before her two children, so she has to put all the valuable things in her body by her side. Looking for another place to die, I didn't expect to be rescued in the end, and the pain was unbearable. Daughter Mei, who is not so talented, was born as kind as her mother, and was forced by her mother to learn the piano. Forced to perform, in the end, I never touched the piano in my life. (The experience is exactly the same as mine, even the flustered expression when I play the wrong game is exactly the same as mine.) The mother put everything on her daughter, and the daughter was overwhelmed and said, "No matter how much you expect me, I can't be the one I am not. You are looking forward to me." In the end, it was the mother who put down her posture, I saw you, I know you are a kind and good boy, I know who you are, and your mother sees your every move. Moved, and finally reconciled.
My impressions The first and fourth stories are about the suffering of two mothers who escaped from the old society, but could not escape the deep-rooted cultural influence. The suffering did not make them find themselves, but left them with a number of Endless panic and struggle. They picked the night to carry the knife and waited for the non-existent enemy, and wanted to find the value of their existence through their children, but they did not know that they would not have the weight of their own souls in others. It can be said that they easily ruined their children's opportunities to independently obtain happiness and use their talents. It is a tragedy in East Asian culture. Perhaps from a deeper level of human nature, it is selfish to use emotions, language and culture that are beneficial to them to control and oppress others. There is no culture they experience that teaches them to let others go, even their own children. The happy ending of the two reconciliations in the film is something that most children can't wait for in their lives, but I hope that most children will eventually be freed from it. From the perspective of so many "chicken baby" parents these days, this hope is very slim. Both the second and third stories are talking about equality because both mothers experienced a lightning-fast awakening, the suicide of the mother and the death of the son, which awakened them to ask themselves - who am I? How much am I worth? How important am I in this world? It is precisely because of this awakening that they have adopted the diametrically opposite education for their daughters, but they still do not get the desired results. Why is this? The problem is that the relationship between genders and social reality is a trap, whether you are an independent woman who wants to respect, or a housewife who wants to love, you can't get it. Love and respect are inherently one and the same thing, not opposites. Those who don't love you don't need to respect you, and those who don't respect you don't love you at all. That's the truth. On the other hand, it boils down to the same question, don't beg for any value from others, you are your own master, and you define your own value. No matter whether you kneel before God or Master Qingtian, your justice still has to be won by yourself. No one can be your "lord". You are not a supporting role in someone else's script. The three Brandt sisters in 1847, raised their arms and shouted - Life is equal, I must, I can also be equal to the pursuit of love. It's not just love, it's never been a smooth road to the equality of women's status. It took less than a hundred years for a national girl to stand up from her knees. In a certain country, women are still wearing burqas all over their bodies and can't see the way. There are so many women who are caught in a bad relationship, unable to find themselves, helpless, and dying. . Freedom, equality, and independence are the justice and love that have been passed down from mothers to daughters from generation to generation in thousands of years of dross. They are as light as goose feathers, but heavier than Mount Tai.
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