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Joy Luck Club film review

Introduction

Poster of the film

The cover of the original book

Main Characters:
The China Dolls
Suyuan Woo (mother) ¡V June, Jing Mei Woo (daughter)
Lindo Jong (mother) ¡V Waverly (daughter)
Ying-Ying St. ... Clair (daughter)
An-Mei Hsu (mother) ¡V Rose Hsu Jordon (daughter)
The Gangster
Uncle Tom
The Mystic Fighter

The Joy Luck Club contains sixteen short stories about the relationships and the conflicts of traditions and cultures between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters; also between lovers, friends and even enemies. ...

Suyuan found Joy Luck Club in China during the war. ...
Stereotypes
The Joy Luck Club has perpetuated at least two major Chinese stereotypes and has all but set back the Chinese-American images by 30 years. The two obvious stereotypes perpetuated by the Joy Luck Club are what I call the Gangster and the China Doll. ...
Broken English

The Mothers and Daughters
In the Joy Luck Club, all the mothers and daughters were China Dolls at some point in their life. ...

Symbolism

Culture ¡V In every part of The Joy Luck Club, some of the characters think of their inability to translate concepts and ideas from one culture to another. ...

History Through Film & Literature
This story tells us something about the culture and history of China of the 1930s and 1940s before the revolution. ...

Background information (Author & Director)
Amy Tan

Author
The novel, The Joy Luck Club, is written by Amy Tan, an American-Born Chinese, She expressed herself by telling Chinese stories in American eyes through the relationships of the eight main characters that she has created; and the conflicts and contradictions of Eastern ¡V Western cultures mentioned in this story. ... In addition, The Joy Luck Club was on the best-seller list in May 1986. ...


Director

The director of this film is Wayne Wang and Amy Tan wrote the script. ...

Conclusion
The stories in The Joy Luck Club, is about Chinese and Chinese-American characters, but their stories are actually universal. ...
After reading The Joy Luck, I have realized that there are few points that we can further discuss¡K

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