'Chick flick' has become a somewhat derogatory term, partially because it was a term created by guys who find women and their feelings annoying, but to a great extent because most movies in this class are shoddy pieces of tripe like 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.' If movies of women and their feelings were all this intelligent, insightful and affecting I doubt anyone would have even coined the term 'chick flick.' This is a movie of honest emotion that leaves you with a sense of fulfillment, a rebuke to all those manufactured, syrupy women's movies that Hollywood churns out. The Joy Luck Club Summary Next Feathers from a Thousand Li Away The Joy Luck Club is divided into four parts of four stories each, totaling sixteen stories in all in the beginning of each part, a short parable introduces a common theme, connecting the four stories that follow.

Joy Luck Club could reasonably be described as a chick flick - it is, after all, a film about a bunch of women and their feelings - but that would be a disservice. The book is structured somewhat like a Mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. DESCRIPTION : The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga thats impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum StylistDiscover Amy Tans moving and. The women emigrated from China and joined. The book follows four women and their daughters. But somehow they did it, seamless weaving in and out of the characters' reminiscences. The Joy Luck Club was published in 1989 and written by Amy Tan. It's surprising they managed to make a movie out of The Joy Luck Club, which was, after all, a series of anecdotes by 8 different people.

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