I have read so many reviews about the movie For Colored Girls, a movie from the play by Ntozake Shange entitled For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. So many reviews are being posted about the movie and it was #3 at the box office for it's opening weekend. As a result, there are so many reviews that those who have not saw the movie will either see for them selves or live vicariously through all of us who write about the movie. As I read through some of the reviews and the reviews of the reviews (LOL), I am actually shocked at how men who have written about it seem to be very upset about the entire movie and find nothing that was remotely interesting about the movie. Women on the other hand, have been a mixed collection of reviews and most were able to find something they enjoyed about the movie. I think that one must read the play in order to get the fullness of Shange's writing being portrayed in the movie, but I found the movie For Colored Girls to be worth my time and would say go to see it, if asked.
Art comes in so many different forms and although this movie wasn't the movie that put both our men and women on a pedestal, but it was needed and the box office is proof of this. It may not be the story of those who have criticized the movie, but my experience while viewing is that it is evident that it is many viewers' story or experience. I sat at a screening at the historic Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC. During the show I heard so many people crying, sniffling and saw them holding hands to console one another. It is a part of the journey. Soon Black movie producers and writers will get to tell a different story. They will share a different tale. One that is filled with more hope and promise and will create a more forward-moving feeling at the end. There will be more men like Hill Harper in the movie that we will see soon. More sisters will unite in spite of the hate they have thrown at each other. Now is the time to get all of this other stuff out of the artistic system that lies within those who create these films. Once we get through this process then I think we will have movies where Black men are shown in a positive light on the Big Screen. I am ready. Are you?
Art comes in so many different forms and although this movie wasn't the movie that put both our men and women on a pedestal, but it was needed and the box office is proof of this. It may not be the story of those who have criticized the movie, but my experience while viewing is that it is evident that it is many viewers' story or experience. I sat at a screening at the historic Lincoln Theater in Washington, DC. During the show I heard so many people crying, sniffling and saw them holding hands to console one another. It is a part of the journey. Soon Black movie producers and writers will get to tell a different story. They will share a different tale. One that is filled with more hope and promise and will create a more forward-moving feeling at the end. There will be more men like Hill Harper in the movie that we will see soon. More sisters will unite in spite of the hate they have thrown at each other. Now is the time to get all of this other stuff out of the artistic system that lies within those who create these films. Once we get through this process then I think we will have movies where Black men are shown in a positive light on the Big Screen. I am ready. Are you?
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