The Joy Luck Club

Most films these days are easy to describe because they fit into types such as love stories or thrilliers. But The Joy Luck Club is different. It is a story about love and conflicts between four daughters and their mothers.

The joy club club is a film based on the best selling novel by Amy Tan of the same name.

It shows us the lives of four Chinese women who were new immigrants to Sanfrancisco during the 1950s. The four women acquaint themselves with each other by playing mahjong. They became closed friends because they had similar experiences and they called themselves the Joy Luck Club. As a mother, each of them has a lot of problems with their daughter.

The film describes the relationship between the Joy Luck Club mothers and their daughters,and their cultural conflicts.It represents the process from misunderstandings, conflicts to understandings and harmony between mothers and their daughters.

In this movie, the tender and complicated love between mothers and daughters certainly impressed and moved me a lot. Mother does not go to argue strongly on just grounds, argue with the daughter endlessly in the relation that the mother and daughter confront with each other, but adopt China's traditional forbearing and conciliatory method retreating in order to advance.

It is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. It combines the stories of mothers and daughters to tell one sincere story of friendship. It is one of the finest pieces of acting collaberations among an ensemble cast. It also combines foreign film with American film in a way giving it a new style. I like the set up of the movie or the sequence rather, better than the book. It seemed to make more sense. Many of the performances were powerful. Even those who only spoke the Chinese language in the film should have gotten awards for performances that made me laugh and cry.

     Frankly speaking ,the film is worth watching. I believe  , you will think a lot and feel a lot after watching it.

 

第二篇：喜福会_英文影评

The Review Of The Joy Luck Club

After watching the film The Joy Luck Club, I feel very confused because there are too many people here and being a complex relationships. But I can see what I really want to see , our society girls always pursuit destiny and freedom. Many people may as why I would say so, that is because the time which a woman’s destiny and honor is under her husband power.

The mother and the daughter in the film came across different love stories, their characters might be genetic, and their destiny had coincidental similarities. The mothers trying to escape from the Feudal China and the daughters growing up in America since birth, different stories have the same theme, that is：to make efforts to gain love and dignity.

Due to my natural optimism, I believe the consequences of making efforts is to get love and dignity. It’s like one of the mothers told her daughter, “unless he gives you the love and the dignity you want, you should leave him! Not until your left will you find that you should be cherished.” The upset daughter was beaten by heavy life burden, her mean husband fussing over money satirized,” you want a change? Then you should consider carefully the prize you need to pay.” After a few years, on a party, the daughter face is noticeably more radiant, as if a totally different person, and her new husband by her is handsome, considerate and also sweet. Being in a relationship needs love and respect with each other, and neither of them can be dismissed. There is no need to put up with just because you are a woman. Love is not the reason of being mean, love should be given to someone who deserves.

The film is not encouraging the girls to give up a relationship on small dissatisfaction. You can not abandon your family for your thirst for wealth. If you did so, you would deserve some pain. For contemporary girls, we don’t have sad life because we all have beyond standard education opportunity, so we have condition to be economically independent. What’s more, we all

have the ability to think and choose. The right to chase happiness is inalienable and self-evident.

The modern and the tradition both exists in the society now, some women walk farther and farther in the way of career, some other women are strongly eagerly for family life. There is no judgment for which way is better, as long as it suits for yourself. Business gives people the feeling of success and achievement while family gives us warmth and, people who get both is tired but happy.

As we know ,the twins made a meeting at the end and the family made a prefect ending.When we back to the history about the twins .Their mother put them down the tress after their mother took them a long way. But finally their mother can not suffer the pain in the war. So she made a decision that put her baby under the tree .meanwhile she took all her possessions on her baby with the hope that somebody will help the children .According to this ,we can know that their mother was so sorrow that threw their children in the desert. but an that moment we can understand this action. Maybe if their mother took them ,they may all die. With this action, we can think the bad things is so sorrow to a mother.

In the story ,we can see many women betray their traditional customers and to look after their own dreams. All this leave a deep impression to us. When we compare our culture to the western culture, we can know that both western and northern countries’ women pursuit their happiness in a different way .our Chinese women may pursuit freedom which opposite the limited of ancient times. but western women may hope a more justify society and gain more rights. so there are not always differences in different countries. there are also many things in common. so we can learn from each other and make a good communication with each other. Meanwhile, the film indicates a reduction of the bound between the cultural identifications, it appeals to us that we need to eliminate the

cultural oppositions and achieve the peace and combination of various civilization of different nations and races all over the world.

At the end, if we have more spare time ,we can watch the movie again and make a deep understanding of it. Only in this way ,we can learn different cultures in different movies. And learn more personality of the people in the movie. On the other hand ,we can improve our appreciation of the movies.