Film Review – Colour Purple In our opinion, this film was a very complete one because it showed us several Human rights being violated. At the beginning of the movie, there were some actions that awake our deepest emotions. We saw Celie’s father raping her and giving her babies to other families. It was very shocking, because Celie was not old enough to have children (she was still a child) and being raped by her father made her forget her childhood. As it looked like it wasn’t enough, she was forced to marry and spend the rest of her life with a man that she didn’t love. If you think that marrying and spending the rest of the life with someone you didn’t love is outrageous, imagine if you were abused and beaten; imagine also that man took your freedom away; imagine that man didn’t allow you to talk with the only person that you loved; imagine you had to be a housewife of your own “prison”; imagine that man had another woman; imagine being married to someone just to be his slave… the more you try to imagine, the more you think that it is impossible, but the fact is that this was and maybe is reality. Living with fear of doing something wrong or showing the real you, could be thought as “movie scene”, but the truth is that there are people that think that showing what’s inside them is impossible. In a period where we are all fighting for equality on human rights, how can we let situations like this come to this point? Another important point is racism. We can see in this movie that at that age, black and white people didn’t have the same rights… they were different. A scene that proves it, is when Sophia punches a white guy and is arrested for eight years; when she gets out, she is obliged to be a slave of a white woman – the man’s wife.
The cast was really well chosen, because first of all they were all black people who have stories of discrimination in society (we have the case of Oprah); this leads us to an empowerment of the emotions during the movie. It gave us strength to face our problems with other courage. It makes us think that sometimes saying “NO�, facing the problems and protecting our dignity is the best solution for our happiness.