The Joy Luck Club(喜福会影评—东西方文化差异)
喜福会英文影评
The Joy Luck ClubMost 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 betweenmothers 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.。
电影《喜福会》所表现的中西文化差异
（四）母亲安美与女儿罗丝的故事
同样，在爱情和婚姻中失去自我的罗丝被母亲的故事深深震撼。她嫁入豪门，努力做一个好妻子好母亲，为了丈夫和孩子，放弃了学业，更为重要的，放弃了自我，婚姻却濒临破裂。她常和母亲对抗，宁愿去找心理医生也不愿和母亲交流。母亲所回忆的往事唤醒了她的自我意识，那股流淌在她身体之中的中国人自强不息的血液让她彻底清醒，自己并不是社会家庭之外的“他者”，她就是一个完整的个体，是一个独立、自尊、自强的女性，她在最后关头喊出了自己的想法，让她的丈夫重新认识了她的价值，挽救了他们的婚姻。罗丝的觉醒最终获得了丈夫的爱情和尊敬，她也理解自己的母亲始终关注她的一颗心。弱者的地位，如果是预先在心里就为自己设定了，那就势必无法摆脱，而女性的抗争首先从认识自己的价值开始，意识到自己不是弱者，是平等Байду номын сангаас，才能有抗争的本钱。
关键词：教育方式；爱情婚姻观；价值观；文化差异
Abstract: With The Joy Club as an entry point, the paper contrasts and compares the similarities and differences between China and America in many aspects of culture, mainly discussing from the following aspects: ways of education, views towards love and marriage, senses of values, ways of language expression and address terms. The article describes the combination of the differences and similarities between Chinese and western cultures according to different figure characters, living ways, and individual fates in the movie The Joy Luck Club, and also profoundly expresses people’s inspiration and thinking upon the differences and combination. The fates of several female figures in the movie are the realistic manifestation of the differences and combination of Chinese and western cultures.
《喜福会》中西文化差异
电影《喜福会》影评——从主观幸福感来体验的跨文化差异201440105888 广升88 88888有一只鸭子，它一直觉得自己不幸福，因为它不甘心自己是鸭子，因此一直伸长脖子想作天鹅，没想到后来它真的成了天鹅。
电影《喜福会》讲述的是四位华人移民妇女和她们在美国长大的儿女各自之间的故事。
每个母亲都被她成长中的社会视为鸭子，不值一爱地被轻贱，但她们不甘于这被轻贱的命运，于是她们为自己的命运孤注一掷奋力一搏，离开了中国来到美国。
她们正像伸长脖子的鸭子，寻找着幸福感，想要留给女儿天鹅的羽毛。
当然最终也给了她们女儿尊贵的身份与地位，但是她们在新的地方，幸福感的追寻之路因两代人两种文化的差异显得并不是那么顺利。
不同的语言交流《喜福会》中母亲们在美国居住多年之后依旧用汉语来表达她们重要的情感。
然而她们的女儿虽会说一些汉语都在美国长大，在美国接受教育，说的是一口流利的美式英语，这就导致了母女之间的冲突: 她们因为母亲们“结结巴巴”的英语，总是认为母亲们“脑子不灵活”“没有见识”, 她们的话不值得认真地听，显得不耐烦；而母亲们用蹩脚汉式英语无法向女儿表达自己真正爱她们的情感。
不同的语言，在两代人之间的一个无法逾越的鸿沟，阻碍了母女之间的相互了解，彼此疏远。
语言文化的差异是影响她们幸福感主要阻碍因素。
不同的权力距离不同的权力距离导致了不同的家庭观念。
中国是权力距离相对较大的国家，家长权威是绝对的、不容冒犯的，子女孝顺父母听从训导是天经地义的。
管自己的孩子那是家长的权利，子女服从家长那是孩子的“义务”。
而美国是权力距离相对较小的国家，他们崇尚自由、平等和民主，具有很强的独立意识。
深受美国文化影响的女儿们，认为母亲的家长制是侵权性的，绝对不能容忍。
于是他们反抗，“我从不相信，我能成为任何我想成为的人，我只可能是我自己。
”母亲认为理所当然的管理权和子女平等、自由想挣脱束缚的独立意识发生冲突，父母一味的理所当然，而孩子却是反抗、忤逆。
喜福会书评
The Joy Luck ClubThe Joy Luck Club is a novel from a Chinese-American author, Amy Tan and it was her magnum opus which winned her fame and fortune. Her works often contains traditional Chinese mythologies and the themes of the novels are often about the emotional conflicts from different culture and different views of life between China and America, between the old generation and the younger generation. The Joy Luck Club is the story of four girl and their Chinese mothers 。
The Joy Luck Club is a club founded by four Chinese mothers in order to play mah jong and communicate their life and reflect the Chinese lives. They all grew in China and had different miserable life experiences. By some means they came to America and began their seeming happy life. Then they gave birth to four girls of similar age. Even though these four girls were all born in America and received American education, the traditional thoughts from their mothers also had great influences on them. We can see the influences between each pair of mother and daughter. They have different values and they will have conflicts in many areas of life. What impressed me most is the story between Suyuan Woo and Jing-Mei Woo. Many years between them are passing through silence. When the girl was young, Suyuan did whatever she can in order to afford the piano class for her daughter and made her an elegant girl. But Jing Mei didn’t understand her mother. She used every possible methods to fight against her mother’s authority and power. At the piano compens ation in the community, she did very bad job and lost her mother’s face. She thought that her mother would be furious when she came home. But to her surprise, her mother said nothing. That was different from before. The daughter’s reaction was also astonis hing. She didn’t feel surprised, relaxed or fearful, but disappointed. Because in this circumstance, she could not cry for her pain and give the pain back to her mother. They used silence to torture each other.As a daughter who had experienced such disa ppointed moments, I can fully understand Jing Mei’s feeling. When I was at primary school, when I had some mistakes or made some troubles, my mother would use silence to punish me. She would do everything as usual except for saying a word to me. At that time, I was confused about that. After reading the Joy Luck Club, I thought that it may be different habits about parents to help their children to correct their mistakes. They use silence to make you reflect on yourself and then you will remember your mistakes and neverdo it again. That may also be the difference of educational methods between Chinese parents and American parents. Chinese parents prefer indirect methods to teach children especially something sensitive, while American parents used to make direct conversations with their children to solve the problems. I think the difference is mainly because the contrary between Chinese and American values.Through the whole story, we can see many conflicts between daughter and mother, daughter and daughter, mother and mother, especially, China and America. We should try to select the essence and discard the dross to enrich our own culture.。
_喜福会_中东西文化的冲突与融合(1)
1 《喜福会》的背景资料
《喜 福 会 》(The Joy Luck Club) 是 谭 恩 美 1989 年 发 表 的 第 一 部 小 说, 该书曾获“全美图书奖”、“全美图书评论奖”, 以及“1990 年海湾地 区小说评论奖”, 《喜福会》也是作者根据自身的经历,选取移民母亲和 生长在美国的女儿之间的矛盾冲突作为素材,表达了两种文化之间的 相互冲突、相互融合的心灵历程。 《喜福会》在美国掀起了一股华裔文 学的热潮。 华裔文学由此受到了全国文学界的关注。
教育是应由国家控制的 。 国家规定教育的方向 ，目的和性质 。 国家 控制教育的发展和序列，国家制定教育方针，国家为教育提供经费和 后盾。 没有国家的支持，教育是难以立足的。 国家是教育的主导者。 3.2 国家设立教育机构
教育机构由国家设立。 国家为教育的进程建立大致的框架，教育 根据自己的发展按照国家的要求成长，发展。 换句话说，如果国家时局 处于动荡不安的状态，教育机构很可能处于瘫痪状态。 没有国家的大 力支持，教育及其机构将形同虚设。 3.3 国家确立教育的目的、内容和形式
中国的传统中,儿女的婚姻大事至关重要,父母们都试图干涉,往往是 带着善意干涉。 钟林冬见薇弗莱的男朋友比薇弗莱小,中国有这样一 种 说 法 “宁 愿 男 大 十,不 愿 女 大 一 ”,加 之 他 又 是 美 国 白 人,她 对 美 国 白 人有一种本能的反感。 她作为一个华裔,自己并没有真正地融入主流 文化,还固执坚持守着中国古老的风俗习惯和思想,她喝茶而不愿喝饮 料或咖啡,吃中国菜饭而不愿用西餐。 她对薇弗莱男朋友的排斥,一部 分是对西方文化的排斥;另一方面是传统中国女性强大母爱在她身上 的突出表现。 然而,女儿却并不理解母亲,她认为她的第一次婚姻失败 可能是母亲施了什么妖术,她害怕母亲再一次破坏她的婚姻。 不同的 文化背景形成了不同的价值观念，钟林冬同女儿在婚姻上的冲突充分 地表明她们代表了不同的文化。 3．3 冲突三：顾映映与圣克莱尔.琳达
《喜福会》折射出的中西文化观念差异共6页
《喜福会》折射出的中西文化观念差异电影《喜福会》根据华裔美国女作家谭恩美(AmyTan)的成名作《喜福会》(The Joy Luck Club)改编而成，和其小说畅销一样，改编的电影也在国内外引起了强烈的反响。
《喜福会》通过描写四对母女间的代沟和隔阂冲突反映了东西方文化的冲突，展示了中西文化差异。
电影讲述了四位母亲在中国内地悲惨的过去以及痛苦的回忆，她们带着自己美好的梦想远渡重洋来到了美国。
她们虽然身处美国，但是她们骨子里深受中国传统文化的影响。
这就决定了她们的生活习惯、思维方式、价值观念以及道德观念等与她们在美国土生土长的女儿不一样。
他们的女儿从小接受美国文化教育，说地道的美式英语，吃着美国食物长大。
因此，本文从友谊观、价值观、面子观、信仰观四个方面阐述东西方文化差异，以帮助英语学习者在英语习得以及跨文化交际过程中进一步了解美国文化。
一、友谊观差异中国人向来好交朋友，珍惜友情。
交上一个朋友需要较长时间，人们一旦成为朋友，这种友谊将持续很久，乃至一生。
美国人口中的朋友定义比较广泛，而且有区隔性；譬如说工作上的朋友、打球的朋友、学校的朋友、喝酒的朋友，等等。
同美国人交朋友容易，深交却最难；同美国人一见如故，热情有加，但有“人走茶凉”的感觉。
另外美国地域广大，人口流动性也高，而且朋友之间绝少吐露私人的事情，所以友情是比较“温水”性。
在中国，朋友之间肝胆相照，为了朋友不惜两肋插刀，“士为知己者死”。
中国历史上，君子之交，贫贱之交，患难之交，生死之交，不乏其例。
这些在电影《喜福会》中得到了体现。
影片开头部分君美的母亲去世后，在她们传统的麻将游戏中，她的三个好友依旧把她的位置留着，并且试图把对已故友人的思念和感情转移到君美的身上，安美简单的一句“你的牌艺有你妈妈的好吗?”流露出已故朋友在心中的地位。
事实上，她们也确实是这样做的，在影片的后部分，我们可以看到君美母亲的三位朋友对待君美就像是对待自己的亲生女儿一样。
喜福会电影英语观后感
喜福会电影英语观后感英文回答："The Joy Luck Club" is a poignant and heartwarming film that explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, as well as the challenges and triumphs of the immigrant experience. Through four interwoven stories, the film delves into the lives of four Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters, showcasing the cultural divide, generational differences, and the enduring bondsthat unite them.The film's strength lies in its authentic portrayal of the immigrant experience. Each character's journey is unique, yet they all share a common thread: the struggle to find their place in a new land while preserving their cultural heritage. The film sensitively explores the challenges of language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and the clash between traditional values and modern aspirations.The performances by the cast are uniformly excellent, with each actress bringing a unique depth to her character. The mother-daughter relationships are particularly well-developed, showcasing the complexities and contradictions that exist within these bonds. The film also features a beautiful score by Tan Dun that perfectly captures thefilm's emotional journey.Ultimately, "The Joy Luck Club" is a film about the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit. It is a story about the sacrifices made by mothers for their children, the challenges faced by immigrants, and the enduring bonds that connect us all.中文回答：《喜福会》是一部感人至深的电影，探讨了母女之间复杂的关系，以及移民经历中的挑战和胜利。
the joy luck club 喜福会论文
The Comparation of Cultural differences Between China andAmerica Based on The Joy Luck ClubAbstract：The Joy Luck club is a moving film which reflects the theme of love and conflicts between four pairs of mothers and daughters. The relationship of love between mothers and daughters runs through the whole film. However , the conflicts of cultural differences between mothers and daughters also arise very frequently. Because the four mothers are Chinese and they were born and grew up in China . After suffering a lot in China, they immgrated to the Amercia in the early time and started their new life. Even they have been living in America for a life-long time, they continue to cling to the Chinese culture. Althought their daughters were born and raised up in America, mothers still use Chinese ways to educate theirborn-in-America daughters. Thus, many conflicts of differnent cultures between China and America are showed in this film. Finally their daughters understand the differences and recognize the enternal love with their mother.Key words:love,conflicts,cultural differencesIntroduction：In the film “The Joy Luck Club” describes all kinds of life experiences of four pairs of mothers and daughters. The names of mothers are Suyuan, Lindo, Ying Ying and An Mei. Their daughters’ names are June,Waverly, Lena and Rose. The four mothers both suffer a lot of misfortunes in China and they come to America. The Joy Luck Club is a place where they can meet together and gather to talk and play Majiang. They laugh and play and want to forget past wrong. The most important thing is that they hope to be lucky. Because of their unluckiness, they put all their hope onto their daughters. They use their inherent and traditional Chinese way to cultivate daughters and hope them to be those women like them.However ,the daughters are born in America and they don’t understand their mothers’ culture,their ways of thinking,even their ways of education. So the conflicts between them arise frequently on the aspects of education,marriage and freedom of life. What’s more, there are some cultural differences in this film. Accoding to all of these,there are aspects to compare between Chinese and American culture.1.The different table manners between China and AmericaIn this film, Waverly takes her Amercian boyfriend Rich to attend her mother’s dinner party. Although Waverly has taught some Chinese manners to Rich,there are many different table manners between China and America from Rich’s behaviours.Firstly , Rich drink over the first cup of wine when others just have an inch of taste,and he even drink over the second one. He should drink another cup after others have drunk over in China.Secondly,he takes most of his favoriate shrimps into his own plate by himself. Actually ,he should take before everyone has taste it. Theworst thing happens later that is about Waverly’ mother, Lindo’specialty dish. When Lindo takes her specialty dish on the table and says “this dish not salty enough. No flavor,too bad to eat,but please try”. Rich can’t wait to tasting it and then says the dish should be put some soy on it. His behaviour astonishes all the guest,let alone Lindo. There is no doubt that his behaviour offend Waverly’ mother. In China, people will belittle their specialty at first in order to be modest. Surely ,they are willing to be complimented by their guests. On the contrary, people in America will tell the guests directly that this is his or her specialty. And they will compliment it if it is really delicious.In Chinese culture,guests should be treated by the host. They can have drink after host’s welcome. The guests should not help himself to the dishes before others have taste it. Obviously ,Rich’ s table behaviour is not polite in China.2.The different educational way between China and AmericaAs for the educational problem,the story between June and her mother Suyuan and between Waverly and her mother Lindo are very impressive.Suyuan have to discard her twin daughters in China because of war and her illness. After she immgrates to America,she still use Chinese way to teach her third daughter-June. Like other Chinese parents,she places all the hope onto June and hope that she can be a prodigy. She forces June to continue to play piano thought June has failedin a performance. June says “I’m not gonna play any more,why should i?I am not your slave,it isn’t in China,you can’t make me”.InChina,children are always listening to their parents and they follow what their parents tell them to do. They nearly dare to fight against their parents’thoughts. It is kind of filial piety dating back to the ancient times. However , American children are independent and free,they can do what they like to do. Parents are not willing to put their opinions to children and will not interfere into children’s private life. They hope their children to think and live independently. Another is about Waverly and Lindo,their conflicts on education is very common in China. Waverly are very good at playing chess and she even becomes the chess champion. Lindo is very proud of her daughter’s performance and show it to others. There is a scene that Lindo tells everyone she meets in the street that her daughter Waverly is a chess champion. This behaviour makes Waverly very unhappy and she says “Embrassing,why do you want to show me off? If you wanna to show off, why don’t you learn chess ?”In China, parents often use their children’s success to show off because they put all their hope to their children. And children’s success is the best return to their pay. In America, they don’t compare their children to others. They attach great importance on their children’s individual hobbies. They respect their children’s choice and won’t force them to do what they don’t like.3.The different traditional ideology between China and AmericaTraditional ideology has rooted deeply in the Chinese culture and the mothers are still following .Lena’s mother Ying Ying suffers a lot in China and she never knows how to comfort her mother. Still unfortunately, Lena is married to a man who is self-centred. Their life expense is going dutch except personal expenses. Day by day,Lena can’t stand her husband’s behaviour. In Chinese tradition, women take hold of the economic power and husband should give the money to their wife. In America,people like to go dutch and want to be fair to each other. Actually ,Lena is not willing to accept this lifestyle. Another example is the marriage of An Mei’s daughter Rose. Rose falls in love with a rich guy Ted and they marry finally no matter Ted’s mother’s disagreement. As an American born Chinese, Rose tries her best to devote herself to her huaband. Rose does everything she can to take care of and support Ted like most Chinese wives. She even give up her further study in order to support him. She thinks it is a way of devotion of love. For example,when Rose says “you have a hard day. I don’t really care. I just want you to be happy.” This is a traditional thought of Chinese wives. They place their husband to the first place. However ,Ted is not satisfied about these. He hopes his wife to be thoughtful and independent. He says “ I like to hear your voice.” Ted wants to hear her own opinions and express her ideas rather than follow him. This is traditional cultural difference between China and America.Conclusion:After watching over this film , i feel the enternal love given by their mother. Althought mothers and daughters have different cultural views and thoughts and have many conflicts, they still love each other. And their love fianlly get over all the differences.。
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The Joy Luck Club
In the movie, there are many conflicts between Chinese culture and American culture, such as teaching methods, relationships, traditions and customs.
First of all, there is a tremendous difference between Chinese and American teaching methods. In China, parents decide what their children should study, which can benefit for children. For example, in June’s memory of child, she should spend two hours playing the piano and be supervised by her music teacher. In China, it is very efficient to prove child who is absorbing some skills in music, art or study. Chinese children often claim that they are forced by their parents. In other words, Chinese parents have no perception of considering children’s hobbies. But in American, children can choose anyone which they are interested in. And American children are more freedom. They can plan to how to practice it.
Second, in the movie, Chinese have more complex relationships between each other. June’s aunts found her sisters who had been dropped by their mother twenty years ago. They tended June to China in order to tell them about her mother. Because aunts thought the daughter is the parents’best friends that can know about her parents. In America, the different person has different feelings and thoughts. Though you are the closest, you cannot know all about each other.
Third, traditions are very clearly different in this movie. With our impression, Chinese is modest and kind, which contributes to they are not willing to show off what is they are good at. For example, Lin Duo was very good at cooking, but she always said “I am not good at cooking” or “This cake is not very tasty”. When her son-in-low heard this, he put a lot of salt in dishes directly, which made Lin Duo feel embarrassed. Actually, in Lin Duo’s heart, she was long for her relations’ compliment.
In the end of this text, in Chinese customs, the king of the home is husband, which means the man decides everything, including woman’s happiness and life. And one man can have many wives; however, one woman pertains to only one husband, including her body and soul. But in America, husband and wife is independent, husband would like to listen to what his lover is thinking.。