Review of The Color Purple (1985) by Luigi T — 07 Aug 2014

In the film's exposition, we see how tender the sisterly love is between Celie and Nettie when they were running around and playing patty cake. But when Celie gave birth and for no reason her newborn were taken from their father, the atmosphere got dark and the level decreased. It'd gotten darker when Danny Glover's nasty character entered the picture and took Celie, since she's older than Nettie, as his wife/mistreated slave. It gets worst when he forbid the two sisters to see each other since the lazy bum (I'm talking about Glover's character - a representation of slave owners) couldn't get Nettie's affections.

It was just sad to watch with sympathy on what Celie had to go through, while not standing up to him. But when Whoopi Goldberg entered the picture as Celie, her performance lighten the atmosphere at the same time Celie's life lighten up when Margaret Avery entered as the positivity and self-confidence fairy after Oprah Winfrey entered as a good friend who don't want to be messed with (her character married the lazy bum's son, then left him when he was sort-of following his father's ways for a short time until he'd learned his lesson).

After that sad, powerful downer that'd affected the rating to a 3.5-star, the film was progressing to a solid 4-star after strong performances from the main actresses and how things resolved towards the heartwarming ending that was built up since the exposition throughout the hard times. (B+).