My Appreciation of the Joy Luck Club

The first time I saw the title of the film, the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it would be a film filed with joy, luck and happiness. However, out of my expectation, in the film, I saw many unpleasant things—conflicts, hardship, disappointment, sorrow, hurt, torture etc. Of course there were some moving parts, and fortunately, it was a happy ending. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much. It made me have a penetrating thinking.

The Joy Luck Club tells about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and their struggling to understand each other. The film shows us these topics: the misunderstanding of love between the mothers and the daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity. Now I am going to show you my understanding of them, emphasizing on the first topic.

In many cases, we and those we love are easy to hurt each other because of the misunderstanding of love, the conflicts in generations and culture background, or unconsciousness.

Take Jingmei and her mother Suyuan as an example. When Suyuan demands the little Jingmei to play piano, Jingmei shouts to her mother, “You can’t make me!” Even Jingmei cried that

she wish she isn’t Suyuan’s daughter and Suyuan isn’t her mother, and that she wishes she were the dead like the babies Suyuan abandoned in China. The sad expression on Suyuan’s face indicates that she is hurt deeply by her daughter’s innocent words.

This reminds me of my similar experience. Once I hurt my mother as Jingmei did. I didn’t mean to hurt her, but those wounding words just slip out of my mouth unconsciously. Often, we hate that why our parents don’t know my feelings, why they like to make us be something and totally unaware that what their children are. While the parents don’t know why all their sacrifices to the children can’t be paid off, even incite hatred. Actually, this is the generation gap that causes the misunderstanding. We don’t know the hardship our parents underwent before. They can’t understand what we are thinking. So misunderstandings appear.

Maybe as a child, Jingmei cannot comprehend what her remarks mean to Suyuan, and just want to show her grudge. But another main reason is the different backgrounds of Suyuan and Jingmei bare. Chinese parents always like to put all their hopes on the next generation for they are the generation full with hardship and pain. All they do just want the children to be better, but they

ignore that whether their children can accept or not, not along a child born in America, influenced by the American’s individual freedom and knowing little about Chinese culture. The generation gap and culture conflict cause the misunderstanding of the mother and the daughter.

The other example is Waverly and her mother Lindo. Waverly tries her best to please Lindo in everything. Whether her mother approves or not becomes the master of all her choice. Even Waverly marries a Chinese man because Lindo likes Chinese, while she doesn’t love. Waverly doesn’t understand why Lindo disapprove or criticize whatever she has done. On the other side, Lindo thinks that her daughter is ashamed of her, which is her continual internal injury after Waverly’s winning that chess contest, when Waverly shouted to Lindo if Lindo wanted to show off, won the chest by herself. Every time, Lindo’s disagreement with or indifference to Waverly directly results from the thought that Waverly feels it shameful to be her daughter. Both of them deeply love each other, but in the meantime, they hostile and hurt one another. This is the way them get along with each other. Fortunately, they clear up their misunderstandings and discover themselves by communicating. I am deeply moved by this scene:

Waverly Jong says to Lindo, sobbing,, “You don't know, you don't know the power you have over me. One word from you, one look, and I'm four years old again, crying myself to sleep, because nothing I do can ever, ever please you.” And after a short period of silence, Lindo smiles to Waverly with tears in her eyes, “Now, you make me happy.” Then they laugh heartily, teary-eyed with happiness.

Seeing the old Lindo bursts out laughing, like a child, and Waverly laughs joyfully, I sincerely feel delighted for them. Love needs communicating, understanding, and tolerance, which is what I learn from them.

Along with above mentioned, the struggle for the women to fight for equity is also brought to the surface. For instance, Ying-ying encourages her daughter Lena to escape an unhappy marriage, not repeating the same mistakes she made in her first marriage. And An-mei tells her daughter Rose to learn to shout at the unfair fate, and express her own will because Rose has lost herself in her marriage. These two cases reveal that the women begin to release themselves from the restrains of being oppressed by the men and the old-fashioned thoughts as well as some Chinese traditional characters. Eventually, the women find their true value and win their own happiness.

View from the whole film, the title, the Joy Luck Club may just be the old generation’s hope of better life for the next generation. On the whole, this is a movie made specifically for women. It is worth our appreciation.

第二篇：喜福会 英文观后感

The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club is one of the my favourite movies, it begins with the main character Ah muir, just returning to the United States from the mainland visit, caught up with a party whose members are all her mother’s lifetime friends and their daughters when mother was still alive. Ah muir is playing mahjong with aunts, sitting in the seat which was her mother’s before. All the four people on the table, with different characters, have their own pains and struggling stories behind. Aunt Lin’s smartness and strongness let herself get rid of the identity as a child bride, striving to today's position; Aunt yingying has unbearable memories in the past, so she hopes her daughter will be bravely being herself; Aunt Anmei was influenced by his mother, knowing to make voices in front of the fate of unfair; While ah muir's mother, because of the war, got apart from her little children accidentally. Four women are all surviving from the poor, getting through trails and tribulations.They don't want their own daughter to repeat their tragedies.

But four daughters intangibly went through their life in a very similar way as their mother’s. They couldn’t understand mothers’ hard cares, feeling confused, painful. As they mature, just know their mother's well-meaning.

If the mothers in "The joy luck club" represent the traditional Chinese culture, then the group of girls are the representations of modern

American civilization. The attention of author, can say to break the long-standing "center" and "edge" the opposite mode, behind the surface cultural conflict, reaches a deeper cultural identity.

America is such a white culture that is dominant, multicultural society, How Chinese immigrants bear the fine tradition of the Chinese culture, and absorb the essence of American culture, so as to construct something that belongs to this group of cultural identity is always the concern of many Chinese writers. Amy tan is one of those observers to the super borders with multicultural insight. Both novel and movie "the joy luck club" ,through the intersection of heterogeneous culture, provide for readers and viewers a net which consists of different nations and the dialogues between different cultures. “The joy luck club "expresses not only the young generation chase for the rootless memory, also is not only the confusion and the struggle of ethnic Chinese that being in such a cultural identity dilemma, but through the expectation of the fusion of two kinds of culture, expressed the Chinese people are reluctant to abandon and hide the Chinese cultural identity in order to servilely cater to the mainstream culture or in order to squeeze into the mainstream American society, nor to stick to Chinese culture to fight against with the wishes of the white mainstream culture. The film conveys one argue that to downplay cultural identity defined, and to eliminate the culture antipathy.So as to achieve the globalization of

multinational culture blend of peaceful coexistence.

阿梅,从中国大陆访问,回到美国就赶上了一个政党的成员都是她母亲的一生的朋友和他们的女儿时,她还活着。阿梅阿姨一起打麻将,坐在母亲之前的位置。四人在桌子上,用不同的字符,背后都有自己的痛苦和挣扎的故事。林阿姨做的机灵和俺让她摆脱身份的童养媳,奋斗到今天的位置,阿姨迎迎不堪回首回忆过去,所以她希望她的女儿会勇敢地自己;阿姨Anmei受到母亲的影响,知道让声音在不公平的命运面前,阿梅的母亲,由于战争的原因,除了她的小孩不小心。四个女人都是survivaling从穷人,通过轨迹和磨难。他们不想让自己的女儿重蹈自己的悲剧。

但四个女儿模糊地穿过他们的生活在一个非常相似的方式与他们的母亲。他们不能理解母亲的关心,感觉困惑,痛苦。当他们成熟,只知道她母亲的善意的。

如果母亲在“喜福会”代表了中国传统文化,和该组织的女孩是美国现代文明的表现。作者的关注,可以说打破长期以来的“中心”和“边缘”相反的模式,表面背后的文化冲突,达到更深层次的文化认同。

美国是这样一个白人文化占主导地位,多元文化的社会,中国移民如何承担中华文化的优良传统,并吸收美国文化的精髓,从而建构属于这个群体的文化身份的东西总是许多中国作家的关注。谭恩美是超国界的观察家与多元文化的洞察力。小说和电影,“喜福会”,通过异质文化的交汇,为读者和观众净,由不同的国家,不同的文化之间的对话,空间和时间。“喜福会”不仅表达了年轻一代追求的记忆飘没有根,也不仅是华人的混乱和斗争,在这种文化认同困境,但期望的两种文化的融合,表达了中国人民不愿意放弃和隐藏中国文化认同为了servilely迎合主流文化或以挤进美国主流社会,也不坚持华夏中国的文化来对抗白人主流文化的意愿。这部电影传达了一个认为淡化文化身份的定义,消除文化的反感,从而达到和平共处的全球化跨国文化的融合。