Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
The Color Purple is the sort of story where unpleasant things happen to innocent people, in this case primarily black women. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) is married off to violent widower Albert (Danny Glover), with predictable results; various people enter and exit her life and they, to, tend to suffer in direct proportion to how likeable they are to the audience. Later, though, there is some karmic comeuppance -- it is that sort of story too.
It could be a personal failing that I now find it difficult to be moved by films in this 80s Hollywood style -- less gritty realism than is currently in vogue, less silence, less staring out windows, more schmaltzy scores and triumphant crescendos.
It's like watching Indiana Jones with more suffering and less action.
The Color Purple is the sort of story where unpleasant things happen to innocent people, in this case primarily black women. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) is married off to violent widower Albert (Danny Glover), with predictable results; various people enter and exit her life and they, to, tend to suffer in direct proportion to how likeable they are to the audience. Later, though, there is some karmic comeuppance -- it is that sort of story too.
It could be a personal failing that I now find it difficult to be moved by films in this 80s Hollywood style -- less gritty realism than is currently in vogue, less silence, less staring out windows, more schmaltzy scores and triumphant crescendos.
It's like watching Indiana Jones with more suffering and less action.