By Adam Tulloch

Tyler Perry’s new film For Colored Girl is an inspirational film dealing with issues and situations that no human being should have to face, including abuse, rape, domestic violence, abortion and abandonment.

For Colored Girls is one of Perry’s best featured pieces. It was a tragic and sensuous hybrid of poetry, dance, drama and feminist theology, based off the theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozakhe Shange.

Perry put together a great cast of actors and each character had to face a painful situation that sparked intense emotions flaring from each painful moment they had to endure. Each actor recited a poem from the original play adding up to approximately 20 poems throughout the film. Each poem provides a vivid message to go along with each scene.

Phylicia Rashād played the role of Gilda, the apartment manager that guides Crystal (Kimberly Elise) and Tangie (Thandie Newton). Both Crystal and Tangie had to deal with insecurities in their lives. Tangie faces trails from her past that affects her mental state of mind were she needs a man to fulfill a void that she cannot fill without a different man that she is not committed to. When guided by Gilda, Tangie is the one to turn a new relief and becomes the one who helps her sister Nyla (Tessa Dunnington), who is a young girl facing teenage dilemma and deals with it alone. Nyla turns to Tangie, who together have a neglectful and not very close relationship.

Kelly (Kelly Washington) was a social worker who faced the same type of rape as Yasmine (Anika Noni Rose), where a trust was broken. Kelly had to deal with the lost of their innocence. Jo (Janet Jackson) dealt with her bi-curious husband that took her for granted and gave her the worst kind of devastating heartbreak that a couple should never have.

As far as Tyler Perry movies go, this film has its moment and overall should be considered as a well-rounded film.