Joy Luck Club

In the movie The Joy Luck Club the director Wayne Wang uses techniques to portray the film to make the themes and issues come across more appealing to the viewer. The three scenes that stood out are the ones where Lindo’s mother is speaking to the matchmaker and mother in law about giving her daughter away to be married at the age of 15, the scene where Ying Ying is in Lena’s apartment also known as the tiger scene and the last scene is Junes reunion with her abandoned twin sisters in China. These three scenes are all different in the way they are explored with different themes and issues by the way they are directed.

Lindo’s family was poverty stricken, as daughters were seen as worthless her mother summoned the matchmaker to make a match for her daughter. As soon as Lindo enters the frame she is walking alone, showing her independence the camera follows Lindo with a panning shot. When Lindo enters the frame she is holding a red kite symbolising prosperity as well as the abi...