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The Joy Luck Club : June Receives her Mother's Feather

June’s father (Chao-Li Chi) gifts June (Ming-Na Wen) a swan feather. June’s mother, Suyuan (Kieu Chinh) intended to give the feather to her daughter as a symbol of her hope and pride, but passed away prior to this gifting.

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accented speech, camera leading, ellipsis, flashback, music, empathetic, over the shoulder shot, payoff, performance, point-of-view shot, prop, metaphorical, prop, motivated, shot/reverse shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Asian: East Asian, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, Migrant

"June Receives her Mother's Feather" in The Joy Luck Club. Directed by Wayne Wang, Hollywood Pictures, 1993, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2326

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