FOR COLORED GIRLS - By Tyler Perry

On November 4th, my husband and I went to the new Archlight Cinema in El Segundo very close to the Manhattan Beach city line and I was particularly excited to see Tyler Perry's new film "For Colored Girls". I had previously watched the movie trailor on television and read few articles about the film and I also "NEVER" miss any of his films as I always get something out of them.

The original "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf" was an experimental play infused with plays written in 1975 by Ntozake Shange. Recently, Tyler Perry adopted this play and turned it into a motion picture and shortened the title to "For Colored Girls".

This film was about the serious life challenges that a group of African American women endured with their husbands, lovers, friends and or other family members. This movie was pretty deep in the nature of the content covered and throughout the film were original poems recited by the characters that expressed how a particular situation made the character feel. These poems were musical in their flow and were very engaging with the words chosen and the story that flowed from them.  Throughout the film, there are various stories portrayed surrounding each individual character with many interesting twists and turns.

 The interesting thing about this film is how the lives of all of these different women are eventually interwoven to each other's lives keeping in mind they did not all necessarily know one another at the beginning of the film.

This movie has many ups and downs and does a great job of continually drawing you in.  This is a great project by Tyler Perry and portrays many of real life situations that many women not just African American women, have had to endure and rise above.

Go see this film for yourself and hopefully you will enjoy as much as me and my husband did.

Goodbye for now until my next "Life in LA" adventure.