The Color Purple

As with many Steven Spielberg films, this is a beautiful-looking movie,scene-after-scene almost looking like paintings. To me, that was themain attraction of the movie because the story - although powerful - tome, wasn't as appealing as the rich visuals. It's also one of thosefilms almost guaranteed to bring a tear or two to ones eyes at the end.

This is much more involving story if you are a woman or black person,because you can relate more to the characters in the film. As withtypical Hollywood, political correctness rules: most of the men (whiteor black) are bad while the women (mostly black) are all good. If youare a male watching the movie, this bias in the story can be veryannoying.

Individually, I remember first watching this (I've seen it a couple oftimes) and being surprised what a good actress Oprah Winfrey was, andhow appealing was Whoopi Goldberg's character "Celie." Goldberg becamea star after this film (also for her comedy appearances on TV) but Ialways thought this role was, by far, her best or, at the least, hermost appealing.

Rae Dawn Chong never looked prettier and Margaret Avery played a realcharmer. Danny Glover was effectively nasty. You wanted to punch hislights out!

Overall, expect for what I mentioned above, this was good storytellingand certainly an involving, emotional story.