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The Color Purple Movie By Steven Spielberg

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The Color Purple movie was directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 1985. This movie is a reenactment of the novel written by Alice Walker. The movie started with a young African American girl named Celie narrating a letter as she wrote to God. She grew up in Georgia in the early 1900s. A shy, timid, scared, and unassertive girl, who lived in a home with a man known to be her father, Alphonso. She was raped and abused by this man. As the movie goes on, she shares that she has two children by her father and he had put them up for adoption. Later on, as a young child, Celie was married off to a man known by the name of Mister. He needed someone to fill the missing void of his wife who had recently died. Her marriage was quite depressing. She had to raise Mister’s children, clean house, and undergo sex with this man. It was a very dominant marriage. She experienced the same abuse here as she did at home with her father. I believe during that time sexism was heavily portrayed. Time had gone by and Celie had gotten older, she became more confident, outspoken, and she overcame adversities. The movie opens with Celie narrating a letter she began to write to God. At the young age of 14, she had already had two children by her father. After her mom died, she took on the responsibility to help care for her siblings, cooking, and keeping up the home that they all lived in. It was until one day, a man came to their home and asked the father, Alphonso, if he could marry Nettie. She

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