"and this is for colored girls who have considered suicide but who have movied to the ends of their own rainbows" (from the film)
Ok no spoilers yet but please realize you SHOULD NOT watch this without a very strong stomach for very difficult issues. This movie involves rape, the death of children, abortion, abuse, attempted suicide, etc.
It is logical within the context of the movie. It is the point of the movie. That life can be difficult for colored women. It is the entire point of the film. This is not to say that these things can't happen to women of any race. But this film is by Tyler Perry and is based on 20 poems written (I believe) about 20 different types of colored women.
A run down of the characters without giving TOO MUCH away...
ALL these women were amazing in the movie - if anything was lacking it was not because of them that is for sure!
Kimberley Elise is wonderful (as always in my opinion) as an abused mother.
Janet Jackson is a hard business woman who assistant is Elise's character and has a troubled marriage.
Loretta Devine is a woman trying to be happy through a crappy relationship, who also has a non profit organization to help young women
Thandie Newton is promiscuous women
Anika Noni Rose is a dancer who tries a new relationship and is hurt.
Kerry Washington is a social worker who finds out she cannot have children
Tessa Thompson is Newton's sister and a girl who's life goes off course before college.
Phylicia Rashad is an apartment manager and lives next door to Newton and Elise's characters.
Whoopi Goldberg is Newton and Thompsons mother who is involved in a religious group and consistently judges her daughters.
I think that the movie was good but the addition of the poetry into the language of the movie and the conversations was a little odd and didn't really fit well. There were places that skipped around and places that were odd but all in all I think the characters fit well and the stories connected if for no other reason then they were all colored women who were experiencing hard times in their lives. Some characters connected better than others... At the end they are all connected in the final scenes. These women were all amazing actresses and Perry did a WONDERFUL job choosing them for their parts. The only part that bothered me throughout was the poetry in the conversations. It was a bit odd.
Either way if you have the stomach for the subject matter then I suggest you watch if. Ever since Diary of a Mad Black Women I have not been let down by Tyler Perry's films!
Enjoy....
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