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Joy Luck Club
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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 ability for freedom with no limitations. As Lindo walks in on the meeting her mother is having with the matchmaker and her future mother in law she steps up onto a rock, which creates a sense of power at the same time Lindo shows them that she wont be restricted once being married off. The long shot of the meeting shows no emotion, the way Wayne Wang has seated the three women is reminiscent of a battle as the mother in law and matchmaker are facing the mother as if the mother is unsure with her decision to give Lindo away, the door way in the background of the scene shows there is a new beginning once stepping inside the darkness of the room showing the unknown and mystery with the light showing a sense of direction. There is a medium shot of Lindo and she is fiddling with her kite but at the same time holding on tightly this represents her fear of being restricted of her prosperity and freedom as she throws the kite away in a later frame it shows her understanding of her arranged marriage by the matchmaker when doing this it shows her loss of opportunities as she knows she is trapped.
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