The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play that featured only 7 women known by colors, performing the collection of 20 poems (e.g. Lady in Blue's visceral account of a woman who chooses to have an abortion & Lady in Red's tale of domestic violence). Each of the poems deal with intense issues that told from each woman's perspective. Furthermore, the poems deal with rape, abandonment, domestic violence, rape, abortion, etc. embodied by each woman's story. This is a surprisingly well done, thought-provoking film on what it means to be a female in this world & overcome. Each one, truly must teach one with love - fierce love, starting with self...
Harriette Cole interviews Ntozake Shange:
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North Star's Rating: 4 out of 5
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