The movie "Purple" tells the story of the black Sealy's growth from weak to strong in a patriarchal society with the encouragement and help of her sister Neti and her "rival" Xia Ge.
At the beginning and end of the film, long-range shots and medium shots are used to show the sea-like violet flowers. The flower language of violets is eternal love, just like the love of Celie and Neti "Only death can separate us". Hot and firm.
Celie's childhood was undoubtedly tragic. At the age of 14, she was forced to give birth to two children by her stepfather, but both were taken away and given away. In her stepfather's description of others, Celie is ugly, impure, anyone can do whatever they want to her, even if she is hard-working, studious, and tough, she doesn't deserve true love. So the stepfather gave her to Ambert as easily as selling livestock, making her his wife.
In the Ambert family, instead of being a wife, Celie is more like a maid and a nanny, serving the whole family. Even so, her life is still miserable and boring. Whenever the wind chime rings, she always hopes that the postman will put Neti's letter in the mailbox. This is the only way she can see the outside world. Under the beatings and deceptions of Tate, she never saw the letter Neti wrote to her, so that she thought Neti was about to die.
Under the beating and enslavement year after year, Celie gradually got used to the days of being a cow and a horse in the Ambert family, and was able to take care of everything in the house skillfully, until her rival in love, Xia Ge's arrival. Compared with Celie, Xia Ge is like a perfect mirror, reflecting Celie's ugliness and unbearableness. She is warm and pampered, good at singing and dancing, beautiful and moving, and everyone loves her without exception. Under the careful care of Xi Li, Xia Ge was moved by her kindness and tenderness, and gradually opened up her heart. The two soon became good friends. They sang together, hugged each other, and became intimate. In Xia Ge's eyes, Celie is actually beautiful, because beauty and purity come from the heart more than appearance. But this kind of happiness is always short-lived, because Xia Ge belongs to no one, let alone nowhere. Xia Ge left, and Xi Li, who wanted to leave with her, didn't speak after she mustered up her courage countless times but was interrupted by her husband's sharp eyes.
Days resumed as before, and Celie was still imprisoned in an unfenced cage, taking care of the family day after day as a maid. Under her care, Ambert's son, Hubble, grew up and took him with him. His lover Sophia came home. Sophia is strong and brave, she has fought for women's rights her whole life, but she is a loser - she lost to the power. Provoked by the mayor's wife, an impulse was exchanged for eight years of prison disaster. After being released from prison, she became a maid under the coercion of the mayor's wife. Her edges and corners were smoothed over and over again, and she learned to swallow her voice, but she taught Celie how to fight. And Celie also gave her her power back, bringing her the power of rebirth in the supermarket.
Xiager came back with her husband, which was a blow to both Celie and Ambert. After Xiager's husband seduced Ambert to leave, they found what Netty had written to Celie over the years. She wrote about her experiences in Africa and what she saw and heard. Encouraged by Neti and Xag, Celie no longer held back her voice.
When Ambert told Celie to hang a beard for him, Celie sharpened her razor again and again on her belt, and in a cross montage, the process of hanging her beard for her husband and the African child about to undergo a notched circumcision. The scenes alternate with each other, depicting the uneasy and anxious atmosphere in Celie's heart at this time. In the end, under Xia Ge's stop, she regained her composure and did not repeat the same mistakes as Sophia.
A war of contradictions broke out during a dinner, and the women finally stood up with their chests raised. At this time, the angle of the scene taken by Celie also changed from a depression angle to an elevation angle. She was no longer the submissive, silent slave she used to be. An equal person, a strong and confident woman.
Celie's struggle was won, she finally escaped from Ambert's cage, she became confident and beautiful, opened a prosperous clothing store, life began to go on the right track, and Ambot and Celie's stepfather eventually ate him. evil consequences. After Celie left, Umberto began to feel depressed, the family was a mess, and his stepfather died after another indulgence.
At the end of the film, the girls live together in a villa in the sea of violets, like the sacred Garden of Eden, the wind chimes rang again, a car came, and it was Neti who brought Celie's former child together again. In the long sea of flowers, Celie and Neti are both wearing purple clothes, which are sacred and inviolable, whether it is lavender or fluorescent purple, whether they are eclipsed or dazzling. They are all powerful women, all pure and beautiful purple.
Maybe you always care about your appearance or not, maybe you often lose self-confidence because of your birth, no matter what, this is a condition given to you by God. Except for gifts, each of us has equal pursuit of freedom and happiness. right. Girls are always beautiful and you are no exception.
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