I think the move had so many hidden subliminal messages in it that we (as blacks) are not able to see into it for what it really is. The book is innocent, but the movie is , lets just say I'll keep it to myself.
She truly is at that... This is one movie I loved from the 1st time I saw it to the umpteenth time I saw it & it never gets old. IMHO, I can't imagine this movie failing b/c it had an amazing cast of characters who worked in sync & w/absolute professionalism to bring the story to life. Definitely a GEM that will withstand the test of time whether it was 10yrs ago or 100yrs into the future - every part is exemplary.
I loved this book when it 1st came out once talk started on making it into a movie, I feared the loss of such a meaningful piece of history despite the fact it's a fictional book albeit not-so-loosely built upon stories passed from generation to generation. As a Native American Indian & a girl-turned-woman w/an alcoholic abusive father/enabler of a mother & knowing the abuse didn't start w/my birth-father, I feared the precious story would be lost. Spielberg brought this story to life on screen.
She is a genius story teller. The abuse was difficult for me to watch but the fact that Celie overcame the abuse, left her abuser - finally, & went out in the world & became somebody while her supposed DH lost everything just as she said he would (a bit of karmic justice here perhaps ????) she learned the true meaning of freedom & flourished in it! Even w/o her kids or sister for decades, she knew they were free, safe, & loved! She was the 1st rung of breaking the abuse/chattel cycle. Beautiful!
I agree. Alice Walker is a truly amazing woman. She is also a hero who brought the wrongs of the past, along w/the wrongs that are still a part of the present, to the forefront where it's laid out bare for all to see & did so in a manner that proved change is possible; education makes a difference, & how domestic violence can have long-lasting effects that hurt everyone, esp children caught in the crossfire. Fiction? Yes. Is there truth within the fiction? YES! Is change possible? DEFINITELY!
Love this writer. As an Italian man born in New York it angers me how black men and women were treated so criminally. My ancestors were treated bad too, but not like those of color.
It may req a lot of research to find her but if you find her agent & explain that you'd like to write a paper on her for school, I'm sure she would take as much time as she can to help out. I've been able to do this twice - 1x it was a person that a book & movie was based upon & the 2nd was an author & screenwriter as well as a teacher who became my mentor & worked w/me for several yrs b4 he passed away after suffering a heart attack. Both are gone now tho they're n my heart as well as my work.
As a Native American woman who grew up w/severe domestic violence incl'g child abuse due to alcoholism, I don't think it's right & after gaining custody of my brother as a child, I taught him how wrong it was, which wasn't difficult b/c he feared our alcoholic birth father/enabler mother as much as I did! It was so bad I came a breath from blowing his brains out! The only reason I didn't was b/c I couldn't guarantee my brother's safety if I went to juvie or prison! We broke the circle of abuse!
Wow that ending was just super glossed over. "The movie became an instant classic" The complete and utterly uncalled for boycott from the NAACP caused harm to this masterful film.
@808Lana, I keep on confusing the names. Thanks. I'm really stupid. I should know this since I met Keith David and I can't find his autograph. Which military ad does he do. Was it Navy or Marines?
i work in physical activity. i was infantry in army. i've worked in medical which is mostly female and those nurses are the hardest working women i have ever seen. whether u have an education or not u should exepect to work hard. im working on my master degree, i still work hard, i may not get my hands dirty but i work hard. a woman's body is a woman's body but it you are talking about things like abortion then no person has a right to kill another human being ever.
@808Lana, Thanks! I guess that wouldn't be uncommon. I'm still looking for that autograph. I met him at a pre-play he was acting in about the Jesus story (guess who who played with that voice). That Keith is one one of the greatest actors ever. lol I just noticed that. Switch around the names and you get the opposite color.
My great-grandfathered shared stories on the Great Depression + the unfairness regarding voting rights all b/c he was full Cherokee & took an Arapaho bride. Black Americans could vote legally LONG B4 my ancestors could & my great-grandfather lived well into his late 90s so I knew him very well along w/stories of our ancestors passed thru generations; throwing pottery incl'g digging/mixing/firing in brick kiln & pit fire. I've had pieces shown in galleries b/c I still throw as taught in NAI way.
@blackbolt75 I wouldn't go so far as to call her a "shame". She def has issues when it comes to family. Hopefully, she will sort everything out with her family.
If you want to start bringing more respect to your ethnicity, you should start by leading by example. Black women who are single mothers are among the poorest of the poor! They work far too many hrs, deny their own need for rest & nutrition b/c the kids come 1st. It's time that black men - along w/ALL MEN to support these kids they helped create by providing FINANCIAL, EMOTIONAL, & PHYSICAL SUPPORT - LEAD BY BEING THERE TO KEEP THEM IN A HOME WHERE THEY'RE SAFE, HAPPY, & LOVED! Break the cycle!
Plus the NAACP hated the movie and tried to boycott it saying it stereotyped black people in a negative way according to Whoopi Goldberg in an interview. But the movie is based on realities of how black women were treated in the american south in the early 1900s where they suffered both racism, sexism, poverty and domestic violence
cont'd: you may not think it's important but it certain is important. Today, he's a loving husband & doting father; I'm married some 25+yrs w/2 girls of our own (my bro calls me mom & DH dad; his kids are our grand-kids, & wife is our DIL). The 1 major fault I find in black men is the sheer # of black single mothers raising kids after the father runs off. Kids need both parents, w/exception of an abusive one.
College graduate my ASS! If you were a college graduate, you wouldn't constantly be asking others to give you answers b/c you don't know them! And yes, I do know what it was like back then. I grew up w/a great-grandfather & other elders in my family who knew a helluva lot more than u do & they only had a couple grades of education b/c they had to work the fields, keep the house, tend the animals & I'm from a Native American Indian family. My great-grandfather was in his late 90s when he died!
@Tyses. yes no woman, has made black men look so bad. i mean this division makes it so easy for us to be oppressed. there is nobody in america more oppressed than black men which leads to indirect oppression on black women. so yes thanks alice walker for acting like the black man is oppressing black woman and also making it seems as if sexism is worse for black women than racism. there is no comparism. i dont like her.
Your ignorance is showing again! I grew up w/a terrific young man who happened to be black. He adored his mother, as did I. He NEVER RESENTED HER! HE NEVER JOINED A FREAKIN' GANG EITHER B/C A RIVAL GANG WOULDN'T NEEDED KILL HIM B/C SHE WOULD'VE DONE IT 1ST! She raised him better! FYI: It takes a STRONGER WOMAN TO ABORT A CHILD SHE CAN'T FINANCIALLY SUPPORT & AN IDIOT TO HAVE A CHILD THAT WILL STARVE, GET HOOKED ON DRUGS, PIMPED OUT & BEATEN BY A SHITTY MAN W/NO RESPECT FOR HIMSELF OR OTHERS!
I love and admire poets like Alice Walker for their support of the human spirit. If I can go Sam Kinison for a second, LET'S KICK THE TWIN EVILS OF RACISM AND SEXISM IN THE NUTS!!!!!
AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TELL OR FORCE ANY WOMAN TO DO ANYTHING WITH "HER" BODY THAT SHE DOES OR DOES NOT WANT TO DO! IF A WOMAN WANTS TO ABORT A PREGNANCY, SHE HAS THAT RIGHT! Think of what OCTOMOM WOULD SAVE THIS COUNTRY IF SHE HAD ABORTED B4 HAVING 14 KIDS FOR THE TAXPAYERS TO SUPPORT COMPLETELY!
@mykole84 I'm officially done with this conversation before you put words in my mouth. I didn't say anything about anything you're talking about. I'm just saying alice walker wrote a story about women during time when women didn't have equality and that they didn't deserve that treatment. Ya like I said don't bother responding because I'm done with the conversation.
Those were cases of self-defense. You seem to forget that men have treated women like chattel all through the centuries. They belonged to their fathers until married then they belonged to their husbands & if they failed to give him kids, he had the right to sell her to a brothel where she was still chattel! Times have changed. WOMEN HAVE SAME RIGHTS AS MEN & IT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE & SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN & THERE'S NO CHANGING IT NOW!
WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING IN? I'm not a racist person but I want to know why BLACK MEN - OVER WHITE, GREEN, PURPLE, BLUE, YELLOW, & PURPLE MEN SHOULD OWN A BUSINESS EVEN MORE THAN OTHERS? My DH owned his business for more than 20yrs; HWR, HE HAD THE EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE TO DO SO! I RUN MY OWN BUSINESS FOR YRS & WORKED FOR HIM AT SAME TIME & OWN A BUSINESS NOW THO' I HAVE EDUCATION W/EXPERIENCE TO DO SO!
If you're seeing women beating on men, then you need to go back to your shrink b/c you need to have your medications increased or changed completely b/c I have only seen 2 women beat on a man and that was after the man hit them. My aunt crowned her DH after he slapped her & she popped him so hard w/a cast iron pan he went flying across the room but he NEVER HIT HER AGAIN & SHE THREW HIM OUT! Another aunt crowned an ex-DH 4 hitting her; she knocked him w/a baseball bat & threw him out too!
well that the problem u were in an abusive situation due to alcohol and enabling not because you are a female nor because the person was a man. alcoholics can be man or woman and enabler can be both. most men dont go around abusing women. i ts flat out lies. you feared your father what does that have to do with other man. why must other men pay because your father was a drunk who was abusive and your mom an enabler that your parents not other people. blame him not everyone else.
How can you honestly sit there claiming I "blame other men b/c of my birth father's abuse?" Hell, I've been married to the same man for some 25+ years! We raised 3 children together! All but one is grown & out on their own w/educations incl'g college & doing well, married, & caring for children - our oldest cares for her 2 stepsons! Where is the blame of other men? If I was what you say I am, I'd be single w/no children & wouldn't be dating but I'm not! I've got a wonderful husband & 3 gr8 kids!
If you would actually attend college, take a few sociology, US history that includes the history of women then you would know the answer to these questions. All you are doing is making the case that you haven't been to college & you have no education to speak of, including grade school b/c these are things taught in high school history classes in addition to college tho' college goes more into depth on the subject.
SWEETHEART, YOU NEED A HISTORY LESSON! Before anyone can truly move fwd in life, it's req'd to learn lessons from the past; it's the only way not to repeat mistakes that cost so much hardship, heartache, & even DEATH! You seem to forget BLACK MEN could VOTE long b4 women of any ethnicity was allowed to vote! There's a time in our past & our present where domestic abuse is not spoken of b/c it's "family business". What of the innocents who are murdered due to domestic violence? Is this right? NO!
I just loved The Color Purple. It's one of my absolute favorite books!
Fuck The Color Purple
@@MoveInSilence36 why?
I think the move had so many hidden subliminal messages in it that we (as blacks) are not able to see into it for what it really is. The book is innocent, but the movie is , lets just say I'll keep it to myself.
She truly is at that... This is one movie I loved from the 1st time I saw it to the umpteenth time I saw it & it never gets old. IMHO, I can't imagine this movie failing b/c it had an amazing cast of characters who worked in sync & w/absolute professionalism to bring the story to life. Definitely a GEM that will withstand the test of time whether it was 10yrs ago or 100yrs into the future - every part is exemplary.
alice walker is amazing.
Alice Walker is a nutcase.
@Tyses, Alice Walker is a Black Misandrist, Lesbian, SWIRLER !😡😡😡
I loved this book when it 1st came out once talk started on making it into a movie, I feared the loss of such a meaningful piece of history despite the fact it's a fictional book albeit not-so-loosely built upon stories passed from generation to generation. As a Native American Indian & a girl-turned-woman w/an alcoholic abusive father/enabler of a mother & knowing the abuse didn't start w/my birth-father, I feared the precious story would be lost. Spielberg brought this story to life on screen.
Alice Walker is a rock star in her own way! this should be in the best comments section for people to realize this!
She is a genius story teller. The abuse was difficult for me to watch but the fact that Celie overcame the abuse, left her abuser - finally, & went out in the world & became somebody while her supposed DH lost everything just as she said he would (a bit of karmic justice here perhaps ????) she learned the true meaning of freedom & flourished in it! Even w/o her kids or sister for decades, she knew they were free, safe, & loved! She was the 1st rung of breaking the abuse/chattel cycle. Beautiful!
I agree. Alice Walker is a truly amazing woman. She is also a hero who brought the wrongs of the past, along w/the wrongs that are still a part of the present, to the forefront where it's laid out bare for all to see & did so in a manner that proved change is possible; education makes a difference, & how domestic violence can have long-lasting effects that hurt everyone, esp children caught in the crossfire. Fiction? Yes. Is there truth within the fiction? YES! Is change possible? DEFINITELY!
I love this classic. Both the book and the adaptation.
Is that David Keith narrating the featurette.
Yes
It’s sounds like Tyler Perry……
Keith David
THE MOST INSPIRING AND BEAUTIFUL FILM EVER MADE.
Love this writer. As an Italian man born in New York it angers me how black men and women were treated so criminally. My ancestors were treated bad too, but not like those of color.
im doing a research paper on her,,she is great!!
It may req a lot of research to find her but if you find her agent & explain that you'd like to write a paper on her for school, I'm sure she would take as much time as she can to help out. I've been able to do this twice - 1x it was a person that a book & movie was based upon & the 2nd was an author & screenwriter as well as a teacher who became my mentor & worked w/me for several yrs b4 he passed away after suffering a heart attack. Both are gone now tho they're n my heart as well as my work.
Love the book and also the movie
Colour Purple is a masterpiece PERIOD
This book changed my life. Thank you Alice ❤❤
@mykole84 She's not bashing all black men, just the rude one she was living with.
This was shot 14 years ago wow
Love black women
Pffft.
Some
Is that Admiral Anderson with his golden voice?! :D
i read her book title the same river twice
Alice is the best writer in history!!!
As a Native American woman who grew up w/severe domestic violence incl'g child abuse due to alcoholism, I don't think it's right & after gaining custody of my brother as a child, I taught him how wrong it was, which wasn't difficult b/c he feared our alcoholic birth father/enabler mother as much as I did! It was so bad I came a breath from blowing his brains out! The only reason I didn't was b/c I couldn't guarantee my brother's safety if I went to juvie or prison! We broke the circle of abuse!
@808Lana Keith David. The black actor. The man with the greatest voice of all time.
If you put this snippets of this documentary into an essay , will it class as context?
Wow that ending was just super glossed over. "The movie became an instant classic" The complete and utterly uncalled for boycott from the NAACP caused harm to this masterful film.
@808Lana, I keep on confusing the names. Thanks. I'm really stupid. I should know this since I met Keith David and I can't find his autograph. Which military ad does he do. Was it Navy or Marines?
Shes my doppelganger.
I NEED TO MEET YOU!!!!! Inspirational
The narrator at the beginning.
Me: Is that Goliath from Gargoyles?! ;-)
Its all relatable.
Watching movie now but want to read the book
I love the color purple. I doing ancestry and Cecilia is my great grandmother and Nettie is my great aunt literally.
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Can I have the source to this interview, its for my research paper.
I know that voice any where!
0:53 btw if your here from sway
she has the same birthday as my mum
i work in physical activity. i was infantry in army. i've worked in medical which is mostly female and those nurses are the hardest working women i have ever seen. whether u have an education or not u should exepect to work hard. im working on my master degree, i still work hard, i may not get my hands dirty but i work hard. a woman's body is a woman's body but it you are talking about things like abortion then no person has a right to kill another human being ever.
@808Lana, Thanks! I guess that wouldn't be uncommon. I'm still looking for that autograph. I met him at a pre-play he was acting in about the Jesus story (guess who who played with that voice). That Keith is one one of the greatest actors ever.
lol I just noticed that. Switch around the names and you get the opposite color.
My great-grandfathered shared stories on the Great Depression + the unfairness regarding voting rights all b/c he was full Cherokee & took an Arapaho bride. Black Americans could vote legally LONG B4 my ancestors could & my great-grandfather lived well into his late 90s so I knew him very well along w/stories of our ancestors passed thru generations; throwing pottery incl'g digging/mixing/firing in brick kiln & pit fire. I've had pieces shown in galleries b/c I still throw as taught in NAI way.
I never knew that. I homeschool my daughter and will tell her part of this history.
You should write a book about the experiences of being Native American. This book 📖 s about the experiences of being African American women.
@codownni
If you mean share some info I dont mind and I'm sure if you try to contact her it might be possible you may never know once you try. :)
I love you God bless you
@blackbolt75 I wouldn't go so far as to call her a "shame". She def has issues when it comes to family. Hopefully, she will sort everything out with her family.
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If you want to start bringing more respect to your ethnicity, you should start by leading by example. Black women who are single mothers are among the poorest of the poor! They work far too many hrs, deny their own need for rest & nutrition b/c the kids come 1st. It's time that black men - along w/ALL MEN to support these kids they helped create by providing FINANCIAL, EMOTIONAL, & PHYSICAL SUPPORT - LEAD BY BEING THERE TO KEEP THEM IN A HOME WHERE THEY'RE SAFE, HAPPY, & LOVED! Break the cycle!
@jesushateswood even worse, not one of those nominations was for Steven Spielberg as Best Director, a tragedy I say
Somebody turn the comments off
Famous black writer in US
Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer
What confuses me is how Whoopi won the Oscar for ghost and not this
Nick B the movie would have won best picture but they lost on a technicality... movie critics still say the Oscar should have gone to this
Plus the NAACP hated the movie and tried to boycott it saying it stereotyped black people in a negative way according to Whoopi Goldberg in an interview.
But the movie is based on realities of how black women were treated in the american south in the early 1900s where they suffered both racism, sexism, poverty and domestic violence
I recognize its importance, but as a literary work, it is very little for me.
cont'd: you may not think it's important but it certain is important. Today, he's a loving husband & doting father; I'm married some 25+yrs w/2 girls of our own (my bro calls me mom & DH dad; his kids are our grand-kids, & wife is our DIL). The 1 major fault I find in black men is the sheer # of black single mothers raising kids after the father runs off. Kids need both parents, w/exception of an abusive one.
I'm black american. I dont think it matters though. what she is talking is bad for any women.
The Arbiter says NO to the mistreatment of women.
College graduate my ASS! If you were a college graduate, you wouldn't constantly be asking others to give you answers b/c you don't know them! And yes, I do know what it was like back then. I grew up w/a great-grandfather & other elders in my family who knew a helluva lot more than u do & they only had a couple grades of education b/c they had to work the fields, keep the house, tend the animals & I'm from a Native American Indian family. My great-grandfather was in his late 90s when he died!
@Tyses. yes no woman, has made black men look so bad. i mean this division makes it so easy for us to be oppressed. there is nobody in america more oppressed than black men which leads to indirect oppression on black women. so yes thanks alice walker for acting like the black man is oppressing black woman and also making it seems as if sexism is worse for black women than racism. there is no comparism. i dont like her.
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😂thank you.
Your ignorance is showing again! I grew up w/a terrific young man who happened to be black. He adored his mother, as did I. He NEVER RESENTED HER! HE NEVER JOINED A FREAKIN' GANG EITHER B/C A RIVAL GANG WOULDN'T NEEDED KILL HIM B/C SHE WOULD'VE DONE IT 1ST! She raised him better! FYI: It takes a STRONGER WOMAN TO ABORT A CHILD SHE CAN'T FINANCIALLY SUPPORT & AN IDIOT TO HAVE A CHILD THAT WILL STARVE, GET HOOKED ON DRUGS, PIMPED OUT & BEATEN BY A SHITTY MAN W/NO RESPECT FOR HIMSELF OR OTHERS!
Who r u talking about
I love and admire poets like Alice Walker for their support of the human spirit. If I can go Sam Kinison for a second, LET'S KICK THE TWIN EVILS OF RACISM AND SEXISM IN THE NUTS!!!!!
I love her poetry as well. Just so deep and powerful.
Why does she hate Israel?
Been listening to too much “anti-colonial” propaganda I’d imagine.
Because she's a vicious antisemite.
AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TELL OR FORCE ANY WOMAN TO DO ANYTHING WITH "HER" BODY THAT SHE DOES OR DOES NOT WANT TO DO! IF A WOMAN WANTS TO ABORT A PREGNANCY, SHE HAS THAT RIGHT! Think of what OCTOMOM WOULD SAVE THIS COUNTRY IF SHE HAD ABORTED B4 HAVING 14 KIDS FOR THE TAXPAYERS TO SUPPORT COMPLETELY!
The book was more amazing than the movie. They need to remake it, but this time keep the lesbian romance in! 🏳️🌈
They did
How about you remake it?
@mykole84 I'm officially done with this conversation before you put words in my mouth. I didn't say anything about anything you're talking about. I'm just saying alice walker wrote a story about women during time when women didn't have equality and that they didn't deserve that treatment. Ya like I said don't bother responding because I'm done with the conversation.
@mykole84 and just saying I'm not black. and I'm a male.
@mykole84 If you really don't like her don't look her up and watch videos about her.
Those were cases of self-defense. You seem to forget that men have treated women like chattel all through the centuries. They belonged to their fathers until married then they belonged to their husbands & if they failed to give him kids, he had the right to sell her to a brothel where she was still chattel! Times have changed. WOMEN HAVE SAME RIGHTS AS MEN & IT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE & SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN & THERE'S NO CHANGING IT NOW!
WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING IN? I'm not a racist person but I want to know why BLACK MEN - OVER WHITE, GREEN, PURPLE, BLUE, YELLOW, & PURPLE MEN SHOULD OWN A BUSINESS EVEN MORE THAN OTHERS? My DH owned his business for more than 20yrs; HWR, HE HAD THE EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE TO DO SO! I RUN MY OWN BUSINESS FOR YRS & WORKED FOR HIM AT SAME TIME & OWN A BUSINESS NOW THO' I HAVE EDUCATION W/EXPERIENCE TO DO SO!
If you're seeing women beating on men, then you need to go back to your shrink b/c you need to have your medications increased or changed completely b/c I have only seen 2 women beat on a man and that was after the man hit them. My aunt crowned her DH after he slapped her & she popped him so hard w/a cast iron pan he went flying across the room but he NEVER HIT HER AGAIN & SHE THREW HIM OUT! Another aunt crowned an ex-DH 4 hitting her; she knocked him w/a baseball bat & threw him out too!
Celie could've ran out on Mr. anytime he came home drunk and passed out.
well that the problem u were in an abusive situation due to alcohol and enabling not because you are a female nor because the person was a man. alcoholics can be man or woman and enabler can be both. most men dont go around abusing women. i ts flat out lies. you feared your father what does that have to do with other man. why must other men pay because your father was a drunk who was abusive and your mom an enabler that your parents not other people. blame him not everyone else.
This video was posted the day Michael Jackson died.
How can you honestly sit there claiming I "blame other men b/c of my birth father's abuse?" Hell, I've been married to the same man for some 25+ years! We raised 3 children together! All but one is grown & out on their own w/educations incl'g college & doing well, married, & caring for children - our oldest cares for her 2 stepsons! Where is the blame of other men? If I was what you say I am, I'd be single w/no children & wouldn't be dating but I'm not! I've got a wonderful husband & 3 gr8 kids!
If you would actually attend college, take a few sociology, US history that includes the history of women then you would know the answer to these questions. All you are doing is making the case that you haven't been to college & you have no education to speak of, including grade school b/c these are things taught in high school history classes in addition to college tho' college goes more into depth on the subject.
SWEETHEART, YOU NEED A HISTORY LESSON! Before anyone can truly move fwd in life, it's req'd to learn lessons from the past; it's the only way not to repeat mistakes that cost so much hardship, heartache, & even DEATH! You seem to forget BLACK MEN could VOTE long b4 women of any ethnicity was allowed to vote! There's a time in our past & our present where domestic abuse is not spoken of b/c it's "family business". What of the innocents who are murdered due to domestic violence? Is this right? NO!
Thumbs down on this shame of a woman.
the stroy is good but her rheotric is the one of the many reason black people will never rise. division makes any group weaker.
Worst Oscar night in history. Such a travesty.
how are women the backbone of the country? what are men. How are women suffering more than men? Im not understanding this.
The movie was better than the book
The name Blade Runner made just as much sense as the name The Color Purple. And also Blade Runner is the superior movie.
What does that have to do with anything
@@waterlemonandfriends Purple is a good color but The Color Purple is a piece of shit written by a piece of shit.
His film was pathetic
Sorry, but the color purple is one of the saddest movies i ever watched, nothing positive or rooted in love there. Not sure whats shes saying.