The Joy Luck Club

Thunder and lightning can't occur simultaneously unless you are extremely close to the strike.

June's hair moves from in front of her shoulder to behind it several times just before Suyuan gives her the necklace.

When Ying Ying is talking to Lena in Harold's apartment, Ying Ying's multi-strand pearl necklace is twisted in some shots and untwisted in others.

During a break in the Mah Jong game, Jun plays three notes on the piano.

The notes go down the scale but her fingers move to the right.

When Jun is at the piano for the recital, her fingers do not come down in time with the start of the music cue.

In one scene, a daughter is shown cutting the flesh out of her arm to make a soup for her dying mother.

In subsequent scenes her arms are completely smooth.

When young Ying Ying's husband brings home one of his girlfriends, Ying Ying breaks a plate, sounding as if she's smashing it on hard floor.

Yet the floor is covered with carpet.

When June is playing in the piano recital, she says, in the voice-over, that she was playing Mozart.

But the piece is the Dvorak Humoresque.

In the first scene where young Ying Ying met her future husband, the guy opened a watermelon which was totally seedless.

The scene should be in later 1930s or early 1940s, based on the context.

Very unlikely there was any seedless watermelons available in China at the time.

Japanese scientists started seedless research in lab in 1938.

It won't be widely available even in Japan market till after WWII.

June receives a letter from her half-sisters that is written in traditional Chinese layouttop-to-bottom, right-to-left.

In the 1980s, a letter from mainland China would have been written using the Western writing layout.

On the road to Chungking, Suyuan leaves a letter with her daughters that is written in the Western layoutleft-to-right, top-to-bottom.

During World War II, the traditional Chinese layout would've been used.

When Lindo is at the beauty parlor, her daughter tells the hairstylist to color and perm Lindo's hair.

Most stylists will agree that these two procedures should never be done during the same visit.

I read this book for the first time recently and followed it up with the movie . Quality book to movie adaptation which is rare .

I read the book of The Joy Luck Club and thought it was really great. But now, this movie, it is so unutterably grim and tragic and depressing.

As an Asian in the US I really hate this movie. I think it's a very narrow one-sided and stereotypical portray of Asians.

I read Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club in high school and on my leisure time, and became one of my favorites. It is a combination of fantastic stories about four young Chinese women learning the walks of life from their mothers, whose life stories of love, hate, sacrifices, honor and war are retold in the novel and powerfully depicted in this movie, which are acted out through a series of flashbacks from the daughters' present day lives to their mothers' past in feudal China.

Not really a review, but a Facebook Post: OH! And I also re-watched 1993's THE JOY LUCK CLUB yesterday for the first time since I saw it once in theatres back then.

Joy Luck Club is a deeply moving film that will touch the heart and mind of anyone who opens themselves to it's messages about life.If someone (such as darkfalz) feels this film speaks more of women's shallow choices, they miss out on humanity for the sake of superficial judgment.

Do you like soaps? This film is one of the greatest soaps of all time.

I saw The Joy Luck Club movie on the shelf at my library. I thought I had seen it years ago, wasn't sure, so decided to check it out.

I was assigned to read The Joy Luck Club for this year's book report, but I was informed by several people that The Joy Luck Club was a movie, too! Not only that, but it was a classic, apparently!