The Joy Luck Club Film Analysis

Throughout our lives, we meet lots of people and every one of them has a chance to change your life. The relationships between people are amazing that we could not control and always out of our expectations. We may feel angry, glad and melancholy. It is no doubt that the closest relationship is between family. The mother-daughter relationship is one of the examples and it is the main element of the Joy Luck Club, which is directed by Wayne Wang, based on the novel written by Amy Tan.

The Joy Luck Club is a movie showing that no matter what difficulties or misunderstandings between mother and daughter, their love will eternal last forever and help them to overcome all the conflicts.

The director applies mise-se-en-scene throughout the whole film to show the love between mother and daughter. The feather acts as the major element of mise-en-scene in the film. It represents the aspirations from mother to daughter, hoping daughter could have a better live. The story is opened with telling a …show more content…
In this film, extreme close-up plays an important role in conveying the theme. It is used to show the facial expressions of the actors. When telling the story of Auntie Lindo, the extreme close-up is used in her last dinner with the mother. Marrying a rich guy and leaving family forever is a hard thing that we could see from the scene of Lindo is not willing to leave. Sadness on their face could be shown onscreen when using extreme close-up. Mother sacrifices for the sake of daughter’s joy, However, leaving is the only way that her mother could do for daughter’s happiness. This is the reality and also the conflict. Her scarification is on account of the love. Being with Lindo together, her fate could not be changed and lived under the torment of poverty. Applying the extreme close-up shot of the actress’s facial expression could strengthen the effect of sadness, showing the love of mother-daughter against the