For better or for worse, the Academy Awards are at the
pinnacle of film recognition in the English speaking world. Since 1927, awards
have been handed out to hundreds of movies, many deserving, some less so. If
you look down the list of winners you’ll find some of the best films of all time.
Citizen Kane, The Godfather and Casablanca
all won Oscars, though with just seven between them, perhaps not as many as
you’d have expected. Each year there are films which are overlooked by the
Academy and this week I’m going to be looking at Six of the Best… Films without
Oscars, the films which didn’t receive a single one. In other words, this is a
list of films which have one fewer Oscar than How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Pearl Harbor. So here they
are; six films without Academy Awards.
Showing posts with label The Color Purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Color Purple. Show all posts
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Color Purple
"I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here."
It’s 1909 and a young girl who has had to endure terrible
sexual abuse from her father, baring him two children in the process, is given
to another man as a wife. Despite being freed from her father’s clutches this
is extremely painful for her as it means she is separated from her sister to
whom she is very close. Her new life is no better than her last as she soon
discovers that she is to be treated like a servant by her new husband, a man
much older than her and who shows her no love, affection or kindness. Tasked
with raising his children (one of which is barely younger than her),
maintaining the house and satisfying him sexually, the film follows her life
over the course of the next thirty or so years as she and other black female
characters have to endure some of the worst of the racism, sexism and poverty
that people had to face during those times.
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