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new adaptation of The color purple overview

This adaptation isn't just another black struggle movie. If you call it a black struggle movie and you didn't watch it, don't talk to me because we don't have anything to talk about. If you think it's a black struggle movie after you watched it, okay then. That's your educated perspective. I disagree.

The color purple is a very underrated coming of age story when it seems like all is hopeless and bleak. because of the way things start off, it's not even really seen as becoming of age story that it is.

Also, there's something very classist about how people don't want to believe that somebody who started so low, the lowest than anyone in our modern day could think is low, could come up and be successful.

But I certainly wouldn't suggest just anyone watch it. there are racially charged events. there is domestic violence. there is family violence. there's also using a teenager as a surrogate without her consent and forced teenage marriage. 

there's nothing about this movie that's convenient. I was also in this theater with a few other people, and unfortunately some of them were older and white. they were loud coming into the movie, and one of them laughed when the lady got hit across the face before she went to prison. I will say that the simulated violence and CGI does look kind of goofy, but white people laugh at weird shit. And they're old, so that's probably some of their parents grandparents and great grandparents being portrayed in the movie themselves. White people laugh at violence. White people laugh at their violence, but of course if you do violence to them it's not funny. 🙄 I hope replacement theory is real.

But I digress. 

yeah, It's a great movie and I suggest seeing it if your heart is in the right place.


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