Those Doggone Girls of Color

Tonight a sat and watched a movie that to be honest, I had no desire at all of wanting to see.  And to keep the honesty going, the only reason I did watch it was because it was on tv... even though it originally opened up in the theaters a few years ago. The movie was Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls", and it I ended up finding it to be so powerful in all aspects.  This joint had such a powerful cast... and I mean the ENTIRE cast... from the oldest woman to the youngest child.  The movie actually put me in the mind of a movie I watched and liked a whole lot many years ago called "Women of Brewtser Place".

Now... why didn't I originally have any desire to see this movie?  Well... I guess you can that I was very well aware of the "For Colored Girls" play that came out many years ago, and I just wasn't in the mood to sit in the theater and sit through 2 hours of man bashing.  I remembered how, when this play originally came out, it seemed like every female actress I knew did monologs from it... all the damn time.  I think it got to the point where it drove me crazy.  And I basically didn't care to see those monologs again.  Yet... what I found in watching it tonight that I ended up not seeing it at all as a male bashing movie (although there were some seriously fucked up dudes in it).  But instead, I peeped it as a movie about black women and how they dealt with their own demons, fears, insecurities, weaknesses, short comings, victim of betrayal, revelations, deliverance, and strengths.

And truth be told, it was such a pleasure watching the real plights that black woman go through, instead of the bullshit that many of the so-called "reality" tv programs try to make people think.