At the start of this movie, there was a girl telling a short statement with gentle and soft sound. Then I couldn’t help but be attracted by it. I couldn’t understand initially why a mother wants to give her daughter a valuable feather, especially a swan feather. It also reminds me a story, called The Ugly Duckling and I find out the answer afterwards. Every mother in the movie was once a duck, treated with irreverence and unworthy to love. But they always wanted to be a swan. They fought not only for destiny but for themselves in order to achieve the dream. In the process of those long years, they’ve tasted sorrow, bitterness and what was real happy. They finally got clearly what they’ve been always persuaded for and gave their daughter these precious experiences which symbolized the swan feather.

      I was very impressed by the first mother, used to marry to a little boy who was younger than her at least for ten tears. Though she was unwilling to such a marriage, she was very smart to make a chance to go. She let the maid become to the madam and get herself one ticket to Shanghai as well. Everything seemed well but she didn’t know that her smart would become a disaster when she with her daughter. Her daughter was quite smart and was very good at playing chess which was completely an inheritance from the mother. The daughter wanted to get rid of the control from her mother though it was usually failed. They depended on each other but easily got fight; they cared about each other but easily got hurt as well. I thought that it was just the way they got along with. Sometimes, people fought with someone they loved deeply. Fortunately, the mother finally chose not to control her daughter and let her daughter embrace her own marriage. I thought the reason why the mother did so was just because she wanted to know who she exactly was. I guessed she didn’t want her daughter to be the second her.

      The last short story in the movie also made me feel very touched. The story was about a mother abandoned her twin daughters in a chaotic era. She must do it because she was unable to take care of them. Then she was rescued but she couldn’t find her twin daughters anymore. She felt guilty and she hated herself to give up. Afterwards, she came to America and got marry again. She had a new daughter later and she put all the expectations to her daughter even including her twin daughters’. However the result of it was that it made the daughter felt stressful. A half of a year later since her mother’s dead, she found out that she had never really understand her mother until her father gave her the feather. Then she realized that she owned triple love and hope. Her mother just simply hoped her to live happily.

     Actually, I love this movie very much because of the natural emotion between with mother and daughter. It made me feel my mother was very wonderful and so did all of mothers in the world. For example, my mother always gave me the best everything she thought. Maybe sometimes I couldn’t understand. But I knew that it was just the way she’d loved me for several years. On the other hand, I thought communication between with each other was one thing very important. If you don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings then I will promise that it was the best shortcut.