- November 8th, 2010, 3:05 pm
#43676
For Colored Girls **** -receives 4 colored stars
Rated R Runtime is 2 hours
Directed by Tyler Perry.
Based on the 1975 award winning Broadway play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.
Star studded cast: Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Whoopi Goldberg, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, and Macy Grey.
What appears to be yet another female empowerment film of complex characters, I invited you to look deeper. While all twenty poems from the original play tend to interrupt the story at times because they are not all easily deciphered, the battered African-American women represent women of all nationalities facing the same shattering issues today: abortion, incest, rape, domestic violence, and others. This film is not just for colored girls. It is a worth wile view but don’t expect to be entertained. This one is more therapeutic.
Hats off to Hill Harper who performed an excellent portrayal of Donald, the only promising male role model in the film, which is sad. All men are not the same; therefore, all men are not dogs. And for the women who continue to say that, if you’re supposed to be so much smarter than men, why do you continue to pick the dogs to have relationships with. As one character told another in the movie, “You’re going to have to accept some responsibility here in order to get better.” Colored Girls is also reminiscent of Oprah’s 1989, Women of Brewster Place, where positive, upstanding men of true integrity are also of rarity - thus my reason for giving Colored Girls only 4 stars. Overall, the acting in Girls is superb in this updated film version of the play. I’ve never seen the play but my guess is that director, Tyler Perry either wrote Janet Jackson’s character, Jo, into the script or added to it as there were no identified HIV cases in the 70s.
Be prepared for two hours of sadness, and a few shocks along the way. Tyler Perry is starting to add more bombshells and shock value to his serious films, and this one tops all of his creations and only tightens its grip.
I would appreciate more male empowerment films out of Hollywood. Women are not the only ones who need positive words of education for inner strength to unlock and break free from their inner demons. I’m tired of having to identify with a female character who’s issues closest match my own. By the way, I identified most with Thandie Newton’s Character, Tangie – forever using numerous sex partners to try and fill the horrible bottomless pit feelings of misery, loneliness, insecurities, and feelings of undeserving of true intimacy with one person, all caused by childhood mental and physical abuse. She learned she was worth so much more than a dangerously useless, lust-filled lifestyle, that she is a person, just as important as everyone else in the world, and that she is worthy of not only giving respect but also deserving of receiving it as well, and so have I learned. After acting out of this neglectful past for years, this was a lesson I had to grow into and learn from the hells it caused me. I Thank God I didn’t end up with AIDS while learning it.
When I was whoring around I felt like I was really living, wanted, appreciated. But when I saw my bed pets out in public with their families and friends, acting as if they didn’t know me, the pain deeply pierced my soul many times. It even followed me home to disturb me even more. It spoke volumes as to who I was and the life I was living. I had become the bed pet of many secret desires – the one nobody would ever introduce to people of importance in their lives. I was their dark secret. The adorable pet that was to be played with only once or many times, before it was tossed out with the trash from its recreational use in dark backrooms when no one else was around. Only to be appreciated, when no one else was watching, in the dead of night…
Some of our biggest battles within start in our childhoods, rejection, insecurities, fears of living, fears of dying, forever clinging our lives through, unless we get the true help we so desperately need. Man can offer great help, but some issues run so dark and so deep and are so intertwined with other issues, that only God can set us totally free. Amen.
Rated R Runtime is 2 hours
Directed by Tyler Perry.
Based on the 1975 award winning Broadway play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.
Star studded cast: Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Whoopi Goldberg, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, and Macy Grey.
What appears to be yet another female empowerment film of complex characters, I invited you to look deeper. While all twenty poems from the original play tend to interrupt the story at times because they are not all easily deciphered, the battered African-American women represent women of all nationalities facing the same shattering issues today: abortion, incest, rape, domestic violence, and others. This film is not just for colored girls. It is a worth wile view but don’t expect to be entertained. This one is more therapeutic.
Hats off to Hill Harper who performed an excellent portrayal of Donald, the only promising male role model in the film, which is sad. All men are not the same; therefore, all men are not dogs. And for the women who continue to say that, if you’re supposed to be so much smarter than men, why do you continue to pick the dogs to have relationships with. As one character told another in the movie, “You’re going to have to accept some responsibility here in order to get better.” Colored Girls is also reminiscent of Oprah’s 1989, Women of Brewster Place, where positive, upstanding men of true integrity are also of rarity - thus my reason for giving Colored Girls only 4 stars. Overall, the acting in Girls is superb in this updated film version of the play. I’ve never seen the play but my guess is that director, Tyler Perry either wrote Janet Jackson’s character, Jo, into the script or added to it as there were no identified HIV cases in the 70s.
Be prepared for two hours of sadness, and a few shocks along the way. Tyler Perry is starting to add more bombshells and shock value to his serious films, and this one tops all of his creations and only tightens its grip.
I would appreciate more male empowerment films out of Hollywood. Women are not the only ones who need positive words of education for inner strength to unlock and break free from their inner demons. I’m tired of having to identify with a female character who’s issues closest match my own. By the way, I identified most with Thandie Newton’s Character, Tangie – forever using numerous sex partners to try and fill the horrible bottomless pit feelings of misery, loneliness, insecurities, and feelings of undeserving of true intimacy with one person, all caused by childhood mental and physical abuse. She learned she was worth so much more than a dangerously useless, lust-filled lifestyle, that she is a person, just as important as everyone else in the world, and that she is worthy of not only giving respect but also deserving of receiving it as well, and so have I learned. After acting out of this neglectful past for years, this was a lesson I had to grow into and learn from the hells it caused me. I Thank God I didn’t end up with AIDS while learning it.
When I was whoring around I felt like I was really living, wanted, appreciated. But when I saw my bed pets out in public with their families and friends, acting as if they didn’t know me, the pain deeply pierced my soul many times. It even followed me home to disturb me even more. It spoke volumes as to who I was and the life I was living. I had become the bed pet of many secret desires – the one nobody would ever introduce to people of importance in their lives. I was their dark secret. The adorable pet that was to be played with only once or many times, before it was tossed out with the trash from its recreational use in dark backrooms when no one else was around. Only to be appreciated, when no one else was watching, in the dead of night…
Some of our biggest battles within start in our childhoods, rejection, insecurities, fears of living, fears of dying, forever clinging our lives through, unless we get the true help we so desperately need. Man can offer great help, but some issues run so dark and so deep and are so intertwined with other issues, that only God can set us totally free. Amen.
Last edited by PhantomCat on November 22nd, 2010, 3:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
So I merged the ones I saw so that you may post them exclusively in this thread. Every movie isn't worthy of a separate thread IMO.