Every girl is a rainbow, there is no reason to be sad

Karina 2022-01-22 08:04:51

At present, it seems that the best female film describing the status quo of black women has been highly praised by foreign film critics, saying it is a must see drama. Without subtitles, I rely on my poor English listening skills to support the reading.

The story of eight women, which shows all the misery that a woman may encounter in her life (being deprived; raped; being a trafficker; her husband is a drunk and killed her own pair of children; she was ravaged by her father in her childhood; her appearance is infinite, but her husband is actually a GAY etc.). The film is inspired by Ntozake Shange's dance poems. The long monologues and interspersed Ntozake's poems are the highlights. It is probably also because of the strong literary taste of the monologue, the translation is not good, and the original color is lost. Have the subtitles been seen for a long time? The poetry is indeed the most difficult to translate, and it can only be understood.

The English name of the film is For Colored Girls, which is ironic and sweet.
Because in the white world, even now, black people will always be "colored" races to them, inferior to people; and these black-skinned women live so strong, even if they endure pain that you don't know, They lived so hard and so "colored", fresh and beautiful.

Rainbow, I used to think there were only seven colors, but the director deliberately arranged eight women to wear clothes of eight different colors. These eight different colors represent a rainbow, and each of them is a rainbow!
color girls have no right to sorrow. It's another pun. Girls with colored skin need not be sad; girls with rainbow need not be sad.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet," claims Tangie

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Extended Reading
  • Amelia 2022-04-21 09:03:23

    Shurg your shoulders and take it easy if you're a colored girl.

  • Stella 2022-04-21 09:03:23

    So cruel! ! there's no such thing as a happy ending

For Colored Girls quotes

  • Juanita: Now, how many times have you heard your man say it don't feel the same? My love is too beautiful to have it thrown back on my face.

    Yasmine: I like that.

    Juanita: Try one.

    Yasmine: What?

    Juanita: Well, I do it all the time in my class. You just say, "My love is too ____," and you just fill in the blank.

    Gilda: My love is too sanctified to have it thrown back on my face.

    Kelly: My love is too magic to have it thrown back on my face.

    Tangie: My love is too "Saturday Night" to have it thrown back on my face.

    Jo: My love is too complicated to have it thrown back on my face.

    Yasmine: My love is too music to have it thrown back on my face.

    Juanita: Yes, and you remember that when a man tries to walk off with all your stuff!

  • Juanita: [enters the office] Hi! I'm Juanita Sims, and I'm so glad

    [shakes hands with Jo]

    Juanita: you took this meeting. Now I'll be quick, because I know you're very busy.

    [sits on the chair]

    Juanita: I read in your magazine about your upbringing. I just knew that this would be a program that you would respond to. First of all, I'm a nurse, and I have just opened a free health and wellness clinic in a community center in one of the poorest neighborhoods in this city. Oh, forgive me. I'm just a little nervous. As you know...

    Jo: Where do I come in?

    Juanita: Well... It's a little non-profit, and everything I do I do out of my own pocket and...

    Jo: Let me stop you right now. I give to cancer, I give to Africa, I give to education. Those are my charities of choice.

    Juanita: Well, those are all very good charities, but there is so much need in our own community.

    Jo: 'Our?' We are all afforded the same opportunities in 'our' community. What they do with theirs, it is not my issue. Your answer is no. End of conversation.

    Juanita: End of conversation?

    Juanita: Crystal, show Miss Simmons out.

    [Crystal comes in]

    Jo: It's Sims. Miss Juanita Sims.

    [leaves Jo's table]

    Crystal: [to Juanita] Right this way.

    Juanita: [stops and turns back to Jo] No. I've been waiting out there in that damn lobby of yours for over an hour for you. Now, it's cool, you don't want to give any money, I get that. But this attitude, this blatant disrespect for other people's time and feelings, well, honey, that's just ridiculous. Does it take all of this for you to be that? Then, honey, if it does, then you may be paying just a little too much. And I can see myself out of this tacky-ass place. Ain't got no color up in here, all this white. No color up in this place, including you.

    [walks out of the office]

    Juanita: Tacky-ass heifer. Wait till I tell everybody how tacky you are. I can show my own self out, thank you very much.

    [tries to open the door]

    Juanita: How do I open this damn door?