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For Colored Girls (2010) American drama movies adapted from a 1975's play by Ntozake Shange. The movie was written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry.[1]

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Plot

The movie takes a story from Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." The movie gives name of its 20 characters following the collection of poem from the play. Each of the sonnets manage extreme issues that especially sway ladies in a provocative critique on being a female of color.[2]

Controversy

There is also a scene where a woman have a fight breaking up with her boyfriend and explaining her deep feeling from what truly called the Colored girls.

Juanita: Ever since I realized, there was someone called a colored girl or an evil woman, a bitch or a nag I been trying not to be that and leave bitterness in somebody else's cup. Come to somebody to love me without deep and nasty smelling scars from lye or being left screaming in a street of lunatics whispering, 'Slut, bitch, bitch. Nigga, get out of here with all of that.' I didn't have any of that for you. I brought you what joy I found. And I found joy. And then there's that woman who hurt you. And who you left three or four times. And then you went back after you put my heart in the bottom of your shoe. You just walked back to where you hurt and I didn't have nothing. So I went to where somebody had something for me, but none of them were you. I got a real dead loving here for you now, 'cause I don't know anymore how to avoid my own face wet with my tears because I had convinced myself that colored girls have no right to sorrow. I lived for you. I know I did it for myself, but I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand being sorry and colored at the same time. It's so redundant in the modern world.

Frank: I guess this is goodbye.

Juanita: Like you've never seen it before.

(Perry, 2010)[3]

Reception

The movie is not as good as the play. It does not channel the Ntozake Shange's original poem-play. During the movie premiere, Egyptian Theatre was filled by black men and women wanting. However, the is not as good as how the atmosphere of the theater is. In an interview, a woman said that she enjoys sitting in a room full of black men and women who are willing to watch movies together, more so than her excitement over the movie.[4]

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