For Colored Girls In this film, I believe I will be reviewing a movie that will provide motivation and encouragement to all women of color, not only for African American women, but other cultures as well. Because this is a Tyler Perry film, I also expect it to be very humorous. The film classification of this movie is fiction. The physical qualities of this film are music, live action, narration, color, background noise, and dramatization. The tone of this film is serious yet joyful. I chose serious because each experience the women went through was very sad and realistic. They were not funny, and were eye openers to me. I chose joyful because in the ending, every woman received her joy back. They were able to face their obstacles and make a decision to move past them. This film most certainly conveys its message effectively. As a tool of communication, the strengths were the various ways the writer made you feel as if you were actually in the film, each scene was very realistic. The weakness that I found in this film was the scene when both of the women, Tangie and Alice, were saying their poems at the same time. I was unable to understand either of the poems thoroughly. I wanted to hear them both out individually. The film maker wanted the audience to feel each woman’s experience, including their pain. The film appeared more to the viewer’s emotion. It made me feel a sense of hope for women. It made me view their circumstances differently, and also made me realize how strong they are. This film made me become conscious of the harsh realities women face in the United States. Love, rape, abortion, abandonment, death, lies all caused by men were those realities classified as harsh. Juanita had to deal with a man, Frank, that constantly played with her emotions. She knew he was playing her too, but with words of sweet nothings she allowed him to come back repeatedly. The last time, she had enough and was no longer going to put up with his mess anymore, the mess that had caused her so much sorrow. Tangie and Nyla were Alice’s daughters. Tangie, the older of the two, had sex with a lot of men. She was viewed as the devil in her mom, Alice’s eyes. Tangie stopped sleeping with all those men after Gilda, her next door neighbor, spoke inspiration into her life. Alice sought Nyla to be young and innocent, perfect until she ended up pregnant. She needed to finance the abortion, but her sister who was the keeper of Alice’s funds would not provide it. So because she didn’t have $300 she went to see someone who performed the operations in her home. Nyla’s dance teacher Yasmine faced being rape. She testified the actuality of rape being committed by someone you know, not a stranger. She was raped by someone she was dating. Never saw it coming, nor did he present any characteristics of a rapist. He got what he deserved when he was stabbed to death by another woman who he attempted to rape. Kelly was a social worker who faced the challenge of not being able to bear children due to the damage of an untreated STD. Jo had to deal with her husband’s deceitful life, Carl. He enjoyed having sex with other men. She of course did not know this and found out about his secret lifestyle after being diagnosed with HIV. Crystal, in my opinion, had the worse experience in this entire film. In love with an alcoholic, Beau, she had to deal with him killing her two children. Drunk and not in a stable mind, he thought that the children were not his from “My children cannot see their mother like this” comment she had made. He then dropped the children from a five story building. Losing her children put her into a deep depression. I have no questions that were left unanswered after watching this film. The central message of this film was that no matter what women may go through they have the strength to be able to conquer any obstacle. I would highly recommend this film as an effective study tool. It has so many different events that can be analyzed and reviewed.