What do you think about Asian and Asian American women? What the life style between now and past for Asian women?

Sunday, May 6, 2007


The Joy Luck Club

Joy Luck Club is a film about the characteristics of relationships between four pairs of Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. Since the mothers came from different culture as their daughter, they have a different view of world based on their experience in China. However, they tried to let their daughters to understand them and wanted them to be successful in their career. Also, others could admired of them. For the mothers, they were hard to adapt the American culture. In their mind was all about their past, the suffering and sadness when they were in China. On the other hand, the daughters were grown up in America; they had different view of world as their mothers did. On the other hand, the mothers thought they could understand them as all because their daughters did not have the same suffering as they did.

1 comment:

whems5 said...

I like this film. The film tells the story of a young woman who becomes one of the concubines of a wealthy man during the Warlord Era. It is noted for its opulent visuals and sumptuous use of colors. This film got a lot of award and Nominations in the world. Although the screenplay was approved by Chinese censors, the final version of the film was banned in theatres (although it has since been screened on commercial TV in China). Some film critics have interpreted the film as a veiled allegory against Chinese communist authoritarianism. As a Chinese, I know the true of the old China. Women are not individual, they are always depends on men. In Chinese old word for women “You have to depend on your father when you are young; you have to depend on your husband since you get marriage; you have to depend on your son after you are old.” Songlin is lucky, she has a chance to be a student, but also this is her bad luck. She has to marriage to an old rich man, Master Chen, after her father dead. Songlin has a chance to get education, but she doesn’t want to accept the life she has.