----The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. "This bird", boosted the market vendor, "was once a duck that stretched its neck in hope of becoming a goose. And now look, it is too beautiful to eat."
Jun's mother, Suyuan, bought a swan with a lot of money in Shanghai. "This duck once stretched its neck and wanted to become a swan," the hawker said. "Look, now it's too beautiful to avoid becoming a Chinese meal." Suyuan floated across the ocean with a swan and yearning for a better life. After crossing the sea to the United States, the Immigration Bureau confiscated the swan and left a swan feather as a souvenir. Years later, Suyuan left this only goose feather to her daughter, which seemed worthless, but carried all her hopes.
The Joy Luck Club-The Joy Luck Club, a gathering of Chinese people in the United States, has a beautiful meaning, and entrusts the Chinese people's wishes of "Joy is happy" and "Luck is lucky". The film is about four Chinese mothers and four immigrant second-generation daughters. Jun's mother has left. At the beginning of the film, the three mothers are at the table preparing food and arguing about the cooking method (Jun said, cannt believe it and wont stop arguing, I am afraid her mother is also a part of the arguing when she is there). Then the daughters walked over and said they wanted to take pictures with the mothers. At first, Jun didn't want to go there. With three daughters and three mothers, Jun felt alienated and nostalgic for his mother. Later, stubborn, but also walked over to take pictures together. This is a story about the Joy Luck Club, a story about Chinese women.
Jun and Mama Su
If there is a protagonist in this film, it should be you. It was Jun's mother Suyuan who founded the Joy Luck Club. The beginning of the story is also told from Jun's point of view. The second half of the story is to supplement Jun's mother Su's story. The end of the film is that Jun finally returns to China to meet the lost twin sisters. . The story about swan feather in the title is also the story of Jun's mother Su.
Jun tells a story about the piano. Mom Su wants to cultivate her daughter's piano skills. Just like a child hates things that are imposed on him, Jun doesn't practice the piano. After Jun screwed up a piano performance, his mother still asked Jun to practice the piano at four o'clock in the afternoon as usual, but Jun refused. The mother-daughter conflict is aroused. The mother believes that there are only obedient (obedient) daughters and no follow-own mine (freedom) daughters. Daughter Jun thinks that this is the United States, and said in the quarrel that he does not want to be his mother's obedient daughter. The contradiction between the two generations has emerged, and the educational concepts of China and the United States are in conflict here.
In the future of Jun's growth, the element of piano was mentioned twice. The first time was the first party after the death of her mother, Aunt Lindo asked Jun, "Why don't you bring the piano home, you are the only one who can play the piano". From this, Jun thought of his mother and the conflict about the piano during his growing up. The second time was when the Waverly family visited Jun's house and asked Jun if he had studied piano. Jun denied saying "Not really." Jun and her mother cleaned up the scraps after the Wei Li family left. Jun told her mother that she was not as good as Wei Li, saying that she had always let her mother down, including piano, grades, work, and lack of marriage. The mother explained that she had hopes for her daughter, not expectations. The daughter countered that when it came from her mother's expectations and she couldn't fulfill it, it hurts. She also said that no matter what her mother's hopes are, she can't do better than she is now, and she can't surpass herself. Here, Jun has achieved self-identification, being a child who follows her own (following her own heart) rather than a child who is obedient (obedient). At the same time, she was accusing her mother Su of not understanding herself. Su said "I see you", she saw her daughter's kindness and inherited her own kindness. Mother and daughter reconcile here, even if the two generations of immigrants have different ideas, different cognitions, and different experiences, they can reach reconciliation. After the death of his mother, Jun went to China alone to find a connection with his mother in the world, a pair of twin daughters that the mother had to give up in the war-torn era.
The story of Su is about a pair of twins who had to give up in the chaos of war. Thinking that he was terminally ill, leaving all the gold and jewelry on his body to his twins, and leaving a letter promising to send the twins to Chongqing, will have a higher return. However, after he was rescued and the twins' life and death were uncertain, a sad Su came to the United States and put all her love and expectations on her daughter Jun.
At first, Su and Jun's understanding and love were not equal, when the aunts told Jun that they had contacted Jun's mother Su's twin in China. Jun asked the aunts what to say to the twins in China, she didn't know her mother. The aunts went on and on, telling Jun how hardworking and kind her mother was, singing and cooking deliciously. Aunt Lindo, who has always been arrogant about her cooking skills, agreed that it was even better than my cooking. Jun heard, I will tell them, I should (I should), and then say I want to (I think). The night before Jun set off for China, his father gave Jun the swan feather. Jun learned about her mother's experience, and understood her mother Su's grief and her own expectations.
Valerie and mom Lindo
The story of Mama Lindo is a successful story of a smart Chinese girl rebelling against a feudal family. Lin Duo, the child bride of the Huang family, left her mother at the age of 15 to marry into the Huang family. Young Lin Duo bears the pressure of inheriting the family, but because her husband's family is a young boy, he has been unable to bear children. Lin Duo was harassed by her mother-in-law. Occasionally one day, Lin Duo found out that the maid was pregnant out of wedlock, and said that he dreamed of the ancestors of the Huang family, and that the maid's child was the child of the Huang family. For this reason, the maid who was pregnant out of wedlock got a good husband's family in the feudal Chinese society, and Lin Duo got a ticket to Shanghai. A smart woman can have a good life in the future, and she has a smart daughter.
Willie's conflict with her mother is about Go. Wei Li won the first prize in Go, and she clashed with her mother because she couldn't stand her show off. Wei Li couldn't talk about Go anymore, and her mother Lin Duo didn't say much. Until one day Wei Li surrendered and said she wanted to play Go. My mother said, not so easy any more. Sure enough, Wei Li lost her confidence in playing Go, just like the piano to the king, they failed to achieve success in their respective fields and became... mediocre.
In the mother-daughter relationship, Wei Li has always longed for her mother's approval, and even married a Chinese in order to please her mother, and the marriage failed. Valerie is in a relationship with a white lover, cautiously telling her mother Lindo about her boyfriend Richard, and even taking her to her apartment, hoping to get her mother's approval. Lindo's comments on Richard's gift not so good angered Willie and clashed with her mother. A wise mother is strong, and usually a look can bring her daughter back to her childhood regrets about Go when she was 4 years old. Wei Li's wedding day is approaching, and Wei Li accompanied her mother Lin Duo to perm her hair to prepare for the wedding. Willie asks her mother why you don't like Richard. Lin Duo remembered what his mother said the night before his marriage, that he should have his own backbone for his expectations, saying that Lin Duo was blessed and would have a better life than himself. Lindo also had the same expectation for Wei Li. Seeing Wei Li's persistence, she saw Richard's goodness. She liked and recognized Richard. Mother-daughter reconciliation.
Li Na and her mother Yingying
Mother Yingying once married Hua Xin's husband by mistake. In fact, there is a harbinger. The young Yingying played by Yu Feihong has a metaphor about a man breaking melon (po chu) as soon as he appears. The man slashed open the watermelon with one knife and took out the tender and juicy melon sac to lick it. Yingying saw this scene and said a shit. But she still went to the nightclub with this man, and handed over her virginity under the singing background of the singer. Then came the birth of a child, and the days when the husband lingered among the flowers. Depressed Yingying thought about the wrong payment of her heart, her innocence, youth and heart, all given to such a man. She hates her for wanting revenge, and her means of revenge is to kill his child, too, her child.
Yingying came to the United States to remarry and had a daughter, Li Na. She thinks her daughter has no spirit. Because she has nothing to give this daughter. Her dead son in China drained her power for a long time. During her daughter's growth, Yingying fell into extreme depression several times, and could not give her daughter Li Na enough care. Even quarreling was an effective communication and emotional expression, but because of her mother's mental condition, all these were is not. In the next few years, Yingying's spirit recovered, and her daughter was preparing for marriage. Yingying visits her daughter Li Na's wedding room and finds that everything is not right. Her daughter and the man shared everything equally, nominally AA. In fact, when the man's income was 7.5 times that of Li Na, going to the restaurant, Li Na only ate one salad, and the man ordered three large dishes, and they were still the same AA. Li Na doesn't eat ice cream, but the man said he didn't know it, the same AA. The man gave Li Na a gift cat, and the money for the cat to remove the lice was also borne by Li Na. Li Na saw it all, but she didn't know what it represented. Looking at all this, Yingying thought of her former husband, the one who said she was a bitch. She has to stop, this is a house and marriage that will fall apart.
Mother is right, this man is essentially no different from her Chinese husband, extremely selfish and narcissistic, does not know how to cherish and take everything for granted, and will not give. The respect and tenderness that the woman expects from marriage does not exist. In the dialogue with Li Na, the man clearly realized what his choice was based on, and it was based on himself. He didn't have to take any responsibility. There is no us in this marriage, only me. Li Na is not valued in this relationship, she doesn't know her worth. At this time, the mother told Li Na, Losing him does not matter, it is you who would be found and cherished. Because Yingying was missing in Li Na's growth process, Li Na did not get the attention and cherishment of her mother, and she looked for respect and tenderness in the relationship between the sexes, but failed. Fortunately, Yingying's condition improved in the next few years, and she turned her daughter back in time and told her that she deserved better. Yingying, whose situation has improved, has the ability to cherish her daughter. When cherished and loved, Li Na found herself and a new other half.
Rose and Mum Amy
Mother An Mei, four-year-old mother was kicked out of the house. Even though she was taught to hate her mother by her aunt and uncle, when she saw her mother bled to save her grandmother, she resolutely fought to live with her mother. In the days with her mother, An Mei felt very happy, and she was very important because of her mother. Later, An Mei's mother chose to commit suicide to save her children. At the funeral, An-mi wailed, saying that her mother would come back. As a result, they gained their status in the Wu family, and An Mei and her younger brother also obtained the resources of the Wu family. An Mei realized the value of her mother, she deserved to be the first lady of the Wu family, and they deserved the attention and status of the Wu family. But it was too late, but when An Mei watched her daughter get divorced, she hoped that her daughter would know her worth, it was not too late.
The elegant Rose has the attention of the publishing tycoon's son, who is attracted by her candor and assertiveness. Lost herself in the marriage and in the family, Rose won the prize in Idaho, rightfully did not accept the scholarship, but became Ted's wife, and she didn't even ask herself if she was right to reject the scholarship. There was less and less talk between them. In order to maintain the marriage, she also gave birth to a daughter. All these efforts only delay the failure of the marriage, but cannot prevent the marriage from dying.
Amy inspired Rose. 1. What she worth; 2. Not being tragic, no begging. Rose recalled her marriage in the rain and said to Ted who came to deal with the property, you are not taking my house, you are not taking my daughter. You are not taking any part of me...Now get out of my house. It's not his fault, she says to Ted. She shouldn't think that her love "wasnt good enough", "your love is more than mine". They are equal, and her dedication, dedication, should not be ignored or taken for granted. Rose did not still offer the cake in the final negotiation as she planned, and continued to be taken for granted and regarded as a kind of request. This re-examination of self-worth won Ted's heart back. Just like when they first met, Rose's frankness, generosity, and self-confidence attracted Ted. Men are always attracted to the same kind of woman. When a woman loses herself, even for that, she will still be bored and give up.
woman's value
The story of Jun and Wei Li is more like the collision and reconciliation of second-generation immigrants and first-generation immigrants. And Li Na and Rose, is the discussion of women's value. I prefer the latter two stories. What you worth and no begging. Women have a clear perception of their own worth.
For long time, the woman wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather. And the woman would tell her daughter, this feather may look worthless, but it comes from a far and carries with all her good intention.
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