Film Analysis: For Colored Girls

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For colored girls made its debut on November 5, 2010. The running time for the movie was two hours fourteen minutes long. Based out of Harlem, New York. In an apartment building is where most of the time has been spent. The movie showcases a group of women who were facing many trails and tribulations within their personal life. Throughout the movie nine women experienced many troubling experiences that any women could relate to. From having problems with conceiving a child, to dealing with relationship issues, to dealing with an abusive partner. We as the audience, see how these nine different women experience life and what is means to be women of color. The main characters are Crystal, Kelly, Joanna, Tangie, Gilda, Yasmine, Alice, Juanita …show more content…

A social problem is defined as a social condition that causes harm to many people, the recognition by people in power and or people actively trying to correct or ameliorate the condition. There are two types of social conditions objective and subjective conditions. Objective conditions deal with the measurable amounts of harm. And subjective condition deals with the social construction of a social problem. Most of the characters are dealing with the battle of dealing with suicide after a tragedy in their life. The social problem that movie addresses is alcoholism, abortion, homosexuality, unemployment, violence, child welfare, and …show more content…

She meets a guy on the subway that interested her. They went on one date prior until the second date came around and Bill decided rape Yasmine. Being numb and in fear of what Bill was doing Yasmine was helpless she couldn’t do anything. And when Yasmine was questioned by Donald he told her that it would be challenging to prove that Bill had raped her. She stated that you don’t have to be raped by someone you don’t know you can be raped by someone you know too. Now Yasmine had to deal with the paranoia that Bill would return and rape her again. But lucky for her he was stabbed and killed while raping another woman. Yasmine was called into the morgue to identify Bill’s body. When identified him she slapped him in the face this was her way of defeating him off her. She won at the

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