A really bad movie

Before you criticize a wonderful movie like The Color Purple, please learn how to spell, properly structure a sentence and use correct grammar; then maybe we can take you seriously. :)

*Sigh* Everyone is entitled to an opinion but, I have to say this is one of the best dramas in the history of American film. Up there with Schindler's list, Joy Luck Club and other greats.
Whoopi did a fabulous job in this film despite the Celie character being out of her element as she's more of a comedy actress.
Yes! Celie was sad throughout the film, she gave up her children against her will whom were born out of incest from her father raping her. She was separated from her dear sister whom she loved and was the only person in life that truly cared for her growing up. Her father used to beat her, so naturally she found a husband that would do the same and she suffered from low self-esteem because of people calling her ugly and stupid all the time. I'm not sure I'd be smiling and care-free either if I were in Celie's shoes. Maybe you should read the book then revisit this film.
Why Albert beat Celie is irrelevant to understanding and absorbing the movie; a man should never strike a woman. If you were watching the movie you should have noted that he beat her to "discipline" her or out of frustration and because he's a coward and its his way of keeping her mentally broken so he can dominate her.

Do you have the same criticisms of the book? You do realize that this movie is based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, right?

After watching this movie, I start to more and more agree with Aristoteles who has said that a noble drama shouldn't display violence but only the causes and consequences of the violence.

"*Yes, the absencse of the WHY was the biggest flaw of the movie. Celie told Shug that Albert beat her for not being Shug, but these are only words which doesn't work for me. "

He beat her for the same reasons anyone beats their spouse, because he was miserable. He beat her because that was what he was raised to do and he was horribly repressed by his own father. He needed a wife to cook and clean and raise his kids. He wanted to marry Shug but he couldn't have her, he wanted Nettie because she was pretty but the step-father wouldn't let her go so instead he got Celie, the "lesser" sister, his last choice. He had no feelings for Celie and she was all he could control in his own life so she bore the brunt of all his frustrations.

The violence was senseless, but that was exactly the point as most violence is senseless. All of their lives were somewhat miserable and very few folks, black or white, really had the tools or insight to really break out of their mindsets. They really only made any progress with personal growth as they got older and wiser and found the confidence to make major changes (like Celie finding the letters and learning her sister and kids were okay and that there was a great big world out there she didn't know about.)

The only thing about your post that I slightly agree with was about Whoopi's performance and only because her pouty lip was kind of exaggerated. I still found it to be an incredible performance and every time I hear her cry "Cee-lie!" at the end and hear the joy in her voice I bawl like a baby.

Thank you for your replies.

First, I must excuse for my bad English, it's not my native language.

I can now see why some people like it. They like it, because they think this movie was worth making so they see everything from a different angle.

I don't know how it was it the '85, but at least in my contemporary culture context, I see the movie as pointless. I look at the movie and think how to make it more suitable for ME and what I didn't like, I named flaws.

But maybe there are some people somewhere, for whom this movie is beneficial..

i agree op.

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*The lead actress.. or the way Spielberg had made her act. I didn't believe her. It seemed she had just been told to do a sad face for most of the time.

Celie had been beaten down her whole life. She was in a hopeless situation. It'd be hard not to look sad most of the time.

*The unreasonable misery. Okay, I aknowledge many people have had and still have the kind of lives like Celie, but in this movie as a hole, I didn't understand the cause of all this. Okay, Albert beat Celie, but why.

Times were hard for people all over during the depression and people back then had a different mindset in general. Albert beat Celie because back then it was 'normal' to beat your wife if she didn't behave the way he wanted. He learned it from his father and passed it on to his son when he advised him to beat Sophia.

*Yes, the absencse of the WHY was the biggest flaw of the movie. Celie told Shug that Albert beat her for not being Shug, but these are only words which doesn't work for me.

Did you want to hear it from Albert himself? Albert would probably say he beat Celie because she was disobedient or back talked him - but the truth of it was that Celie was right. Albert was beating on her because she wasn't the woman he really wanted and never would be. He was taking his frustrations out on her.

The problem is that you are far too unintelligent to understand or fully enjoy/appreciate this film. That is not a slight or insult. Not everyone is intelligent enough to comprehend every work, and from your number 3, you reveal that you're just not very bright which is fine.

By the way, Aristotle never said that.


I met Cinderella once... she's actually kind of a bitch.