"For Colored Girls" leaves no room for mercy and fabrication. Its poetry and talent-heavy cast direct the attention of viewers to unbridling honesty in the trials of rage, pain, s*x and abuse.
Tyler Perry took a step away from the usual African-American, quasi-christianity based screenplays he has produced before and has attracted a more serious art-house crowd with his adaption of Ntozake Shange's Pulitzer prize winning series of poems, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf", in which he dissects and repositions the work through various characters and plots to bring it new life on-screen.
Considerably one of Perry's most emotionally exhausting films, he pulls us through a lens of intense drama, displaying the difficult truths and harsh realities of the shattered "colored girl". Heart-wrenching, grieving, and somber tones wrapped themselves in the color-specific attire and struggles of nine colored women.
Employing the talents of high-profile, dramatic heavyweights: Phyllicia Rashaad, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg and Macy Gray; Perry manages to preserve the what L.A Times notes as "the sort of dance of-life, feminist and racial polemic with the women" the orginal play sought to portray. Through open placement of obselete male characters Michael Ealy, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Khalil Kain, Richard Lawson; Perry (except for in Harper's character) unforgivingly shows viewers the various levels of insecurities, emotional trauma, and violence.
Posted By: Cory France
Monday, November 29th 2010 at 12:00PM
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