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Summary: About Joy Luck Club
Review: I read "Joy Luck Club". I thought about relationship of mother and me. It's a difficult topic, but also very important.
There are various opinions.Since it's only one mother,I want to trasure her.
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Summary: What do you think?
Review: The joy luck club is a very heartfelt story. We can see how deep the relation between mother and daughter. I recommend all of you to watch this with your mother/daughter.
Maybe the view to your mother/daughter may change.
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Summary: Anyone Can Relate
Review: This movie was incredible. Even though there are many stories and characters to follow, I didn't feel overwhelmed by them. Whether you are a man or a woman, you will identifiy with a least one of the chareacters. It helps us to realize that our parents, whether intentional or not, can harm their children's emotionl development by their actions. Grown children and their parents need to watch this movie together and discuss the events and how it parallels their lives. Bring the tissue. This movie is very moving and emotionally charged. I will definitely read the book, which will no dought be better.
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Summary: BEAUTIFUL BOOK --> BEAUTIFUL FILM!
Review: After reading the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, I was very curious about the movie, though I didn't expect much. After the first 15 minutes, I was laughing, crying and telling everyone I knew to see this! Ming-Na (ER) puts on a gerat performance, making this one of my favorite movies ever. Buy this if you're looking for a movie to touch you, and leave a lasting impression on you. Share this with all your friends and your family, and if you really love it definately read the book!
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Summary: A Fake Story
Review: The film opens with a fake story about a duck that wants to be a swan, and says, you see this, this is what it means to have Chineseness. Uh, all we Chinese do to ducks or swans is eat them. Then, there's the idea that a "woman's worth is measured by the loudness of her husband's belch." You won't find anything in Chinese culture or literature about Chinese males measuring the worth of women by how well they feed them. If you want the facts on Chinese people, you won't find it in this movie. I recommend you guys see SEVEN SAMURAI by the great Akira Kurosawa who knew the Chinese Heroic Tradition well.
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Summary: heartwrenching
Review: I never got the chance to read the stoery ,but i did see the movie it was a very heartfelt story one that i could look at over and over again for years to come.Good Work Miss Tan.
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Summary: Inspiration for all..not only for Asians.
Review: Believe it or not, I got a copy of the Joy Luck Club for close to a year and a half, if not more, and only recent decided to unwrap it and watched it. And it is one of the most emotionally, psychologically, and also inspiring films I have seen in years. Took place at a party on the night before the main protanganist, June, was to go over to China to meet her long lost half-sisters, reluctantly abandoned by their mother (one reviewer dare to say the movie have the mother fall asleep and woke up with the children gone, that is NOT what happened), we are introduced to four elderly chinese american women and their respective daughters (of which June is one). As everyone celebrates June going over to China to meet her half sisters, we also see each mother and daughter pair reckoned over the event, and told in flashback, what tragedies and trumphs they themselves have also face in the past....whether it is being promised at age 4 to be somebody's future bride, having your mother being somebody's "fourth wife", having your husband bringing home a prostitute right in your face, or desperately trying to save your children only to have to leave them behind and hope for the best. This last story, about the woman who tries to bring her two daughters out of Japanese occupied territory to her husband only having to leave them behind: brace yourself. It is emotionally wrenching and actually brought tears to my eyes. What is even sadder is realization that such a scenario had probably happened in real life. Ultimately, watching this film made me realized how lucky I am living in America (esepcially to all you anti-men feminists out there who think you are being "oppressed", you ain't seen NOTHING), and that nobody living here now, no matter what your nationality, should ever take this country for granted....and appreciate the sacrifices of our parents, grandparents and forebearers, who took that step and came here so we can have a better life. For that alone, The Joy Luck Club merits my five star rating.
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Summary: Don't understand the fuss everyone is making
Review: I read the book and it was enjoyable. But in movie form, it was not. When I read the book, I could visualize the characters having their flashbacks to childhood. But in the movie, it was too disjointed. I did not feel a connection to the grown up and to the flashback child. It just seemed like a jumble of too many little stories. And I have no idea why they had to weaken the two most powerful and interesting stories in the book. First, they watered down the story of the women whose husband leaves her--and gave her a child to boot. That was really the best story, of how she grows to stick up for herself, but it the movie, it was some stupid hogwash. Second, about the mother who abandons the twins in China. In the movie, they make it so that the mother just laid down and thought she was dying, and then woke up to find her twins gone. That changed the whole scenario, of why this woman was wracked with guilt for all of these years. She abandoned the babies because she couldn't carry them anymore. I don't know why this is necessary to do this in movies. Maybe if I hadn't read the book, I wouldn't care--but then, if I hadn't read the book, I wouldn't have had a clue what was going on. Sorry, but I felt no emotion watching this. The characters didn't last long enough on screen for you to care about them.
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Summary: What can I say!!
Review: I loved the Joy Luck Club. I really like it
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Summary: Almost Perfect pt. 2: story within a story.
Review: As I watched "Joy Luck Club" for a third time, it occurred to me to wonder... we see the three other ladies explaining some aspect of their life stories to their daughters (or having it explained posthumously), but there is no such scene for Ying Ying. I have since found that this omission was deliberate. Author Amy Tan was very much in control of this film, and she made the decision to cut France Nuyen's best scene, in which she reveals the tragedy of her son's death to her daughter. Nuyen is extremely bitter about this. Apparently Tan wanted only unknowns in the film and was worried that Nuyen's presence might take away from the others. I would like to see a Director's Cut with that scene reinstated.
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