第一篇：《喜福会》英文观后感
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
My Reflection of The Joy Luck Club
I wonder that when seeing the name The Joy Luck Club most people would treat it as a story filled with happiness and love.In fact, besides love, it is also about the cultural conflicts between four daughters and their mothers.The film is based on the best seller by Amy Tan of the same name.It shows us the lives of four Chinese women who were immigrants to America during the 1950s.As a mother, each of them has a lot of problems with their daughter because of cultural conflicts.The misunderstanding of love between the mothers and their American-raised daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity touch every audience’s heart.Though I was also attracted by something with extensiveness——I want to talk about some points about the language.I had learnt that what are high context communication and low context communication and what is different between them.The former is one in which most of the information is internalized in a person, while very little in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the message——we must guess what the real meaning of the words is;while the other is the opposite.Chinese just the stands for the former and English is the representative of the latter.An interesting scene in the movie just shows us this.When Waverly’s boyfriend Richie had a dinner with Waverly’s big Chinese family for the first time, he made some stupid mistakes.He brought his typical American habit when the they were eating and he couldn’t understand what Lindo(Waverly’s mother)mean when she said “ He has an appetite”.When Lindo brought a dish which she was very proud of, as a Chinese, she still said some formulae that the dish was not salty enough and it was too bad to eat;that suggested that everyone around the table should speak highly of her dish after their first degustation;while Richie didn’t understand that Chinese all like to be modest and he criticized Lindo’s cooking, just saying what he thought in his mind directly.What Richie did led to a very embarrassing atmosphere in the dinner and made Lindo very disappointed and
disgraced.The misunderstanding of a different culture and a different language is the mainly reason causing the awkward occasion.If Richie had known what he had faced with was a group of people with different culture and saying a high context language, and had done some preparation for that different traditional Chinese dinner, he could have avoid to making so many foolish mistake.To understand what a Chinese mean you could not just follow the superficial message transmitted by his words, instead, you should connect those words to his cultural background and the situation you are in.By appreciating the movie we could realize the culture of a people from their language.In this movie the cultural conflicts between the mothers’ traditional Chinese concept and the daughters’ up-to-date American concept are fully described by their dialogues and soliloquies.In conclusion, a language is really the mirror of a culture;and if we want to understand the marrow of a culture we could appreciate its language.
第三篇：《喜福会》英文观后感
My views on The Joy Luck Club
I'm really touched after watching the movie.I enjoyed it very much and it made me have a deep thinking about women’s rights and their thoughts.The Joy Luck Club is about mothers trying to teach their daughters lessons, but the daughters do not understand.All four mothers went through hardships to learn this lesson when they were young and now they try to teach their daughters the right mix of American culture and Chinese principles.The daughters are unable to understand where their mothers are coming from and they just ignore them.In the movie the mothers can’t express the lessons that they learned as children, to their daughters because they don't understand;however finally they understand.When Lindo was only twelve, she was forced to move in with a neighbor's young son, Huang Tyan-yu, through the machinations of the village matchmaker.After some training for household duties through her in-laws, she and Tyan-yu married when she turned sixteen.She soon realized that her husband was just a little boy at heart and had no sexual interest in her.Lindo began to care for her husband as a brother, but her cruel mother-in-law expected Lindo to produce a grandson.She restricted most of Lindo's daily activities, eventually ordering her to remain on bed rest until she could conceive and deliver a child.However,Ying-Ying’s destiny are not like this.From a young age, Ying-Ying is told by her wealthy and conservative family that Chinese girls should be meek and gentle.This is especially difficult for her, she feels, because she is a Tiger character.She begins to develop a passive personality and repress her feelings as she grows up in Wuxi.Ying-Ying marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, not out of love, but
because she believed it was her fate.Her husband is revealed to be abusive and openly has extramarital relationships with other women.When Ying-Ying discovers she is pregnant.She drowned her baby as a revengy to her husband.I was shocked after finish this part.So I serched the internet and found a few
information about marrige in ancient China ,women’s status and divoce in nowadays.In the past, parents arranged marriages were very common.Usually young people would have their spouse decided by their parents.Sometimes young people could only have the first look of their spouse at their wedding.It was also common that
sometimes an arranged marriage could be organized even before the child was born as long as parents from both families agreed.For centuries before the early 1900's, there was a prominent male domination in the country of China.Women were deprived of all rights and were present mainly to serve men.Women served as slaves, concubines, and prostitutes.Marriages were arranged, sometimes preparing a female from infancy to serve her future husband.This can be seen most effectively by the practice of foot binding.Beginning around the eleventh century, foot binding became a tradition.When a girl became three or four years of age her mother would tightly wrap her daughter's feet in bandages with her toes tucked under the soles.On top of this excruciating pain, the bandages would be
tightened each day.If a woman's feet weren't bound she was considered unsuitable for
marriage.In fact, it was preferred that the foot be around 3 inches in length.However,in modern days, things have changed quite a lot.Free love prevails and lovers can choose to get married with whoever they love.Of course, in order to show their respect to their parents, formal agreement has still to be obtained prior to any proper marriage procedure.And there is no foot binding any more.The increasing population of males with white collar jobs and liberal marriage laws have both contributed to the rising divorce rate in China.More mature women in China are turning to dating agencies, looking for new mates, after their husband left them for females ten years younger.On the other hand, more men with high paying jobs find themselves surrounded by young paramours.China's liberal divorce laws have given women a chance to break free from
unhappy marriages or marriages that were arranged by their families.But today, it is often the man who is taking advantage of such laws to leave the marriage, once he finds himself in a comfortable financial situation, for a young lover tucked away somewhere.Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.So,we should still try our best to protect women’s right.
第四篇：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。
第五篇：喜福会观后感
全片以旅美的四对华裔母女为中心，分别描述她们几个家庭在近百年来的遭遇，从而对比出中国女性从受尽辛酸屈辱的祖母辈逐渐成长为具有独立人格和经济地位的新一代女性。主要情节是温明娜饰演的琼原来跟母亲有很深的误会，但当她代替已去世的母亲回中国大陆探望两个当年在抗战逃难时被遗弃的姊姊时，却深深感受到上一代的苦难和割断不了的亲情。Set in the my American journey to Chinese center for four respectively, and their family in several described the encounter, which nearly 100 years compared women from out of China suffered humiliation grandmother generation poignancy for growing with independent
personality and economic status of the new generation of women.The main plot is playing WenMingNa with mother has deep Jon originally the misunderstanding, but when she already died mother back to replace in Chinese mainland refugees in Anti-Japanese War visit two of abandoned sister when, but deeply impressed when the generation of suffering and cut off not affection.书中的四个中**亲，都是1949年离开中国大陆来到旧金山的，她们每个人都
将自身的一部分，永永远远地遗留在中国大陆了。然而，她们不得不入乡随俗，以美国的生活方式过日子：她们信奉上帝，也畏惧海龙王，在一次仿效美国生活方式的海边野餐中，他们中的一个家庭丢失了一个儿子。在一个完全陌生的国度，她们只觉得危机四伏，险像环 生。母亲们为着给自己家庭争得安宁之地，几乎天天与某种说不出的惊恐在抗争，担心着某种祸患成为现实，避免着种种暗礁旋涡，犹如古代受凌退之罪的犯人，一刀一刀地承受着痛苦，直到离开这个世界才得到解脱。母亲们最不放心的，是自己的女儿。女儿身上，寄托着她们种种未遂的心愿，她们希望生在异国的女儿，能成为一只华贵的天鹅。然而事实却令她们失望：这些女儿们是“根本没见过世面的美国出生的傻瓜”，母亲们只能“无奈地看着这些女儿们长大成人，生儿育女”，从而发出“我与女儿隔着一条沟，我永远只能站在岸的这边观望她”的悲叹。美国女儿也有她们难言的隐痛：她们自认是美国人，但母亲却用中国人的准则去要求她们，而社会又将她们排在“少数民族”之列、正宗的美国人之外，这种偏见，甚至影响了她们的婚姻。更令她们苦恼的是，那流在她们体内的中国血液。她们有着天生的中国式的谦虚、温顺，这使她们对自己的真正美国丈夫、纯美国式的家庭生活方式束手无措，迷惑不已，从而导致了婚姻上的危机甚至完全的失败！母亲们为了与女儿沟通，苦口婆心地给她们讲述自己以及自己母亲的故事，让她们都有了自己的新的生活。电影的结局，她终于与她失散多年的同母姐姐在在大陆相见，不论美国女儿还是中国大陆女儿，双方都共有一个伟大的中华母亲！
In the movie, is four Chinese mother left in 1949 the Chinese mainland arrived in San Francisco, they everyone
Will own part, forever and ever left behind in mainland of China.However, they have to do as the Romans do, to the American way of life live: they believe in god, also fear in a locker, follow the American way of life in a picnic on the beach, one of the family lost a son.In a completely strange country, they just think, risks like huansheng crisis.Mothers to his family for the land for peace, almost every day and some say a panic in the fight, worrying some evil to become a reality, avoid the various reefs like ancient vortex, the crime by bullying withdrew a sword, a sword inmates to suffer pain until leave this world to get free.Mothers, is the most not trust his own daughter.Daughter of him, entrusts they wish, they hope the attempted in exotic daughter born, can become a showily swan.However but fact makes them down: these
daughters is “didn't see the American born fool died,” mothers can “helplessly looking at these daughters grew up, having children”, thus send out “my daughter and I across a groove, I never can only stand watching her side of the onshore” lamented.The United States also have
their daughter dumb sore: they believes it is American, but mother but with the Chinese
criterion to ask them, and social and will they row in “minority” list, authentic americans besides, this bias, and even influenced their marriage.The more to their distress is that the flow of blood in their body in China.They have naturally Chinese humility, docile, which make them to their true American husband, pure American patterns of family life s handles, into confusion, leading to a marriage crisis even a complete failure!Mothers in order to communicate with her
daughter, well-meaning to their mother tells yourself and your story, let them have their new life.The conclusion of the movie, she finally and her long-lost sister in same mother in mainland China, whether the United States meet or mainland China daughter, daughter both with a Shared the great Chinese mother!.
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