[fic] sun-drenched in a winter storm [the joy luck club] [june]

[bantha_fodder]

Sun-Drenched in a Winter Storm by Pen.
The Joy Luck Club, June, G.

100 words for the Chinese diaspora (and the family we end up with)

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She starts to pack the day before: she's been to China twice now, and she knows what to expect, but her aunties flutter around her. Will you be warm enough? asks Ying-Ying. Don't forget the red packet, reminds An-Mei. Lindo checks for June's passport. This picture not so good, she says. Can you get another?

These aunts are not her aunts, she knows, and their daughters are not her cousins, but as they fuss about her, smoothing down her hair and checking that she has packed enough sweaters, she knows that they are her family, and that they are enough.

Comments

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

This picture not so good, she says. Can you get another?

Hee! Perfect! And such a wonderful movie, I have watched it quite a few times. Thanks for this.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

I watched it for the very first time about a week ago. By the end of the movie I couldn't stop crying, huge gasps and red eyes and the first thing I did after the end credits started was to call my mum. I told her how I had been weeping at the movie, and she said, me, too, because that's us.

And it's such a beautiful movie, bad hair aside, and I can't believe I've never seen it because it resonates with me so much.

Sorry to ramble at you, Koala. :o)

[koalathebear.livejournal.com]

See here. I think it definitely resonates for overseas Chinese. I find that Chinese people to whom I show it don't 'get' it and focus on the accented Mandarin or the small inaccuracies. I think it's a very accurate portrayal of what it's like to grow up as a banana though :P

I cry every time I see it as well ... you are not rambling and even if you were - then you are most welcome to do so :D It's the final moment between June and her mother that really gets me. Some cry at the death of the baby, some cry at other parts. I will sniffle and wipe my eyes at the other bits but it's that: "I see you" part that totally wrecks me .....