A news by 4usnews:There have been rumblings that the colored girls is the best work of director Tyler Perry. If this is true, then I’m afraid that for what it says about his career as a director. The film, shot on the play to Broadway colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is Enuf, which first appeared during 1975. adaptation of Perry is sloppy effort, as he has missed any updates or upgrades a 35-year production, but instead use the timeworn cliché to portray the dramatic lives of several African-American women living in New York.
It’s a shame, because Perry has many fine actresses in his cast, like Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Loretta Devine, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg. The film follows them for a few days, and every character suffers a terrible test (think rape, abortion, and physical violence). Perry is going for power, extravagantly theatrical sense, but each story is played out as after-school special.
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Individual skills of each actress underutilized, except, perhaps, Newton, who plays a woman so emotionally abused, it turns into debauchery, to avoid a real relationship. Character is so familiar it’s a stereotype, and other figures, even more abused. Janet Jackson is a successful magazine editor, whose clothes, mannerisms, and dialogue ripped straight out of Miranda Priestly The Devil Wears Prada’s. Even the narrative device ridiculously familiar, for example, show that the nature of the pregnant teenager, she suddenly breaks during dance practice. Thin.
When Perry is not far-fetched uses tactics to advance the plot, he crosses the line of gratuitous violence. There’s one scene so extreme (from harder look at the tactless way it is shot) that I wanted to get out of the theater. Perry seems he wants to make a film as powerful as precious, but it only approaches the region of a soap opera.
It is clear that women should be seen as warriors, but in reality they are victims. Instead of finding a way to show its strength, the characters just put in danger. Moreover, the danger they faced almost exclusively in the hands of men who are fully portrayed as monsters. This is another form of stereotyping, and potentially more offensive than the way female characters are depicted.
For colored girls completely misses the point he is trying to do, and only able to produce a caricature of other, better movies that address the same subject matter.....
