The comedy/Drama love story Diary of A Mad Black Women written and directed by Tyler
Perry was his very first motion picture that came out February 2005 that had appeared to be
some sort of a love triangle, a women was having an affair and wanted to leave her husband for
the other guy cliché of that nature. Through further insight the movie is in fact about a loyal wife
named Helen (Kimberly ELISE) who thought everything in her life was going in the right
direction until her husband Charles (Steve Harris) broke down the news on their 18th anniversary
he was leaving her for another women. Her husband Charles then has a moving truck full of her
belongings ready to take her anywhere she wants to go, where she then meets her true
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I admire his creativity with using these characters, these
characters add life and color to the movie so there is hardly dull moment in this film.
When I think of mad women, I’m looking for violence, crazy or outrageous actions, or even
hallucinations. Behavior like so that would have you in a mental hospital, but instead this mad
black women was just angry about what her husband of 18 years had put her through. Her
husband kicked her out, left her for another women and basically left her in a world to fend for
herself on their anniversary, that’s enough to make a women go mad but she was hardly mad at
all she was angry with her husband and wanted him to feel the pain she felt when he had left her.
Throughout the movie her husband gets caught up with a thug who then shoots Charles in his
back leaving him paralyzed and hospital bound. Then Charles would come crashing down and
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To me that isn’t a good portrayal of “mad” but a great example
of an angry women. If the title of the movie was diary of a angry black women then the movie
would be clear on emotions expressed in this film, other than the title of the movie not really
fitting into the initial story the Writer/Producer in my opinion delivered its objective to make his
audience laugh and leave his audience in aww.
Tyler Perry had a twist to love triangle portrayed in his movie, like I said earlier the story
appeared to be about a man leaving his wife for another women and that was what the story
would be about, but instead it’s about Helen having feelings for two men in her life. The man
who crushed her world and the man who made his world all about her. After Charles had got
shot she breaks up with her current boyfriend Orlando (Shemar Moore) telling him her and
Charles are getting back together to help her husband because at this point they are still legally
married, granted she didn’t want to be with her ex, but she didn’t want to hurt Orlando. So this
what happened. Suddenly, it was time for her to go; they say their goodbyes and she goes to
Madness, madness, madness. It is but a word, yet those who possess it are capable of doing the most amazing or terrible of things. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, madness is defined as “a state of severe mental illness.” Perry Edward Smith is the best individual to depict this characteristic. Throughout Truman Capote's novel “In Cold Blood” the main character, Perry Smith, as Dr. Jones says “. shows definite signs of severe mental illness” (Capote 296).
The Author of this book (On our own terms: race, class, and gender in the lives of African American Women) Leith Mullings seeks to explore the modern and historical lives of African American women on the issues of race, class and gender. Mullings does this in a very analytical way using a collection of essays written and collected over a twenty five year period. The author’s systematic format best explains her point of view. The book explores issues such as family, work and health comparing and contrasting between white and black women as well as between men and women of both races.
cause was that of Divorce. She believed that people ought to be able to obtain a
center around one woman and her fall from reality and life due to the shackles of marriage.
Making matters worse, one of the arresting officers is Chase Jennings: the boy next door who Ember used to be in love with, but now appears to be a hardened soldier. When her mother was taken, Ember was sent to a reformatory in West Virginia, where girls like her were sent for rehabilitation. While there, she was placed in a room with the student assistant, Rebecca. When she caught her roommate in a forbidden relationship with one of the guards named Sean Banks, she blackmailed them into helping her escape. However, the plan backfired, and everyone was caught. As Ember awaited what was certain to be a severe punishment, Chase arrived with an order to take her to Chicago to testify at her mother’s trial. After they left, she learned that the order was fake and Chase had gone AWOL to help her and her mother reach a safe house in South Carolina. As they traveled toward the carrier who would help them reach the safe house, Ember learns more about what Chase has endured in the past year. Her anger toward him gradually begins to resolve throughout the journey to the carrier. Their plan had to change when they found the man that was supposed to transport them had been shot by the MM. Before he died he told Chase and Ember of a carrier in
Women have gone through so many problems and hardships throughout their history. Black women in particular have had to face many more challenges throughout their history. Not to take away from the white women and the hardships they faced, black women have dealt with the same and more issues due to their race. Throughout the history of women, they have not gotten paid as much as men, were targeted more for sexual violence, were not treated with equal respect, and were not treated fairly at all. Black women, on top of all of those hardships, had to deal with their race and the issues that their race brought upon them. Black women during the Black arts movement, faced even more hardships. They were held back, used by their body image to be disrespected, were
The movie, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” personifies the dramatic heartbreak of a woman neglected by her husband after being married for 18 years. The woman undergoes many challenges as she tries to recover from her husband’s huge betrayal. “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” is a comedy-Drama and Romance that was filmed in 2005 by Darren Grant and written by the well-renowned comedian actor Tyler Perry. The movie portrays Helen (Kimberly Elise) astounded when her husband, Charles (Steve Harris) reveals that he is ending their marriage. Helen’s grandmother, Madea (Tyler Perry) helps her to seek revenge.
does a great job of engaging the audience with the story at all times through
Day down due to the false belief that he killed her brother. They only find out their
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie had three marriages. “The three marriages and the three communities in which Janie moves represent increasingly wide circles of experience and opportunities for expression of personal choice. Nanny, Janie's grandmother, had in fact been a slave and had borne a child to her master.” (Cathy Falk. Vol.61.). A young lady and her relationships with three guys. Over her life time she experiences love, hurt, and pain in the three relationships. Logan her first husband was way older than her. Jody dies at the end of their relationship. Tea Cake was the love of her life made her feel like she was more than just a house wife until he got bit by a wild dog.
The amount of character growth and development is something that I really appreciate in any form of storytelling, but I especially thought that is was important in this
Not only does the film Love and Basketball demonstrate lot of feminist elements, but it has a lot of black feminist elements. Written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, a black woman, and starring many other black women, Love & Basketball is not just a warm coming-of-age story, but also a soothing relief for gender relations among black men and women. This movie redefines and defies the societal norms placed on women, while also addressing many stigmas that are placed on males and their “maleness”.
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
and allow the audience to experience the story and the film in a different way.