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The Color Purple Film Critique
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Jacquline Samad Professor Brown History 106 25 April 2011 The Color Purple Film Critique The Color Purple is a 1985 drama film directed by Steven Spielberge that centers around the story of a poor southern, Black woman, Cellie Harris who overcomes years of racism, sexism, and physical/verbal abuse from the men in her life like her own father and husband. As she lives her life as a slave to her husband, she meets two strong black women along the way that gives her the comfort and self empowerment to finally stand up for herself and not to give in to her husband's abuse. Cellie's new inner confidence also helps her to reconnect with her long lost sister, Nettie and her two children that she had by her father who had raped her when she was just a pubescent girl. The film is based on the actual novel written by Alice Walker. The film's mood is most of the time very sad and lonesome as the character, Cellie misses her close sister, Nettie and has to live in a household where she is constantly told what to do and not have her own identity as a wife and a woman. Through out the film, Celie doesn't quite know how to stand up for herself and know her own worth as a woman since she is used to men taking advantage of her both mentally and physically ever since she was a chi...
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