The Joy Luck Club
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:06:03
Each week
they hoped to be lucky...

:06:05
and that hope
was their only joy.

:06:10
Their connection with each other
had more to do with hope...

:06:13
than joy or luck.
:06:19
- You win like your mother?
- Uh, I only played once...

:06:22
- with some Jewish friends in college.
- Hmph! Jewish mah-jong.

:06:26
Not the same thing.
Entirely different.

:06:30
Now, Chinese mah-jong
very tricky.

:06:33
You have to watch
what everybody throw out...

:06:37
and you keep all this
in your head.

:06:41
And if nobody play well...
:06:45
then the game is just like
Jewish mah-jong: no strategy.

:06:49
You American girls
play Chinese, Jewish.

:06:53
What's the difference?
:06:56
Oh.
:06:59
They were worried.
In me, they see their own daughters.

:07:02
Just as ignorant of all
the hopes and dreams...

:07:05
our mothers brought
to this country.

:07:16
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
No talking in Chinese.

:07:20
- Huh?
- How do I know you're not cheating?

:07:22
- We would not cheat.
- You don't know, but not we.
- Ah.

:07:24
You don't know, but we are your auntie,
and we are very honest people.

:07:29
- We will not cheat you.
- Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe.

:07:41
Hey, June, why you not
take the piano home?

:07:45
You only one who play.
:07:53
When I was nine years old...
:07:55
my mother's version
of believing in me...

:07:57
was believing that
I could be anything...


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