Movie Review: For Colored Girls

I liked this movie, but there were some parts that I found hard to believe. I think the movie should have been longer. The characters needed to have more substance. I like Tyler Perry because he always talks about issues that many people dip in here and there, but never really get to the heart of. He directed this movie.

I like the way the poems were mixed in with the scene. It was as if, each poem was a language that only those particular women could understand.

I think all the scenes in the movie were sad. But each womans' story was very realistic. There are women who are like that today.

When you think about it I don't think that there are too many movies that black women can really relate too. Not everyone looks like Beyonce and Rhianna. Not everyone can lives in a mansion that cost more than their student loans added up.

He picked a really good cast to play each character too. Although I wasn't use to seeing whoopi play a role that wasn't comical.

What I thought was messed up in the movie:

I thought it was messed up that at first the older sister wouldn't help her younger sister get an abortion.

I thought it was messed up that the mother was so fantical about her religion. What was that goat blood? She put on her younger daughters' head. That's gross.

I thought it was sad when the woman found out that she could not have a child.

I thought it was sad when the other woman lost her children because her boyfriend dangled them out of their apartment window and let them slip out of his grasp. She knew that he was abusive. And needed to get help. But either she loved him too much and thought her love could change him. Or she was just too afraid to leave because maybe she thought that he would come and find her and cause her more harm for leaving.

I didn't really like Janet Jackson in this movie. She is a good actress in some movies, just not this one. I thought her character lacked passion.
I thought it was messed up that her man was a DL brother. And that he gave her AIDS. How messed up is that? But she had a sense the whole time, but she didn't do anything about it.

I liked that the woman who kept taking her "man" back after he would go be with his ex finally put her foot down and told him that she no longer wanted him.

I thought it was sad when the woman who had a passion for dance got raped. But then I thought on the second date why would you let him into your home? You don't know him. The first and second date should have been a group date. But I guess she figured that since he acted like "such a gentleman" and had a nice smile. That he wouldn't do her any harm. But the nice guys are the ones that you have to watch out for. Especially if they seem too nice in the beginning.

I was disgusted when the woman ,who also played in the movie Crash (which is a really good movie by the way) when her character kept bringing home different men to have sex with. She was doing that because she hurting. And having sex with different men, numbed her pain for awhile, I guess.

The struggles those women went through are very real. And they happen everday. But no one really pays much attention. I still think that women of color have it harder than the next person. It might not be as bad as it was in the previous years, but the struggle to be heard is still there.