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Title: Very Strange Movie
Review: I happened to see this movie for the 1st time over the weekend on FX, and for the most part I liked it as it stayed true to the setting/era as did the Color Purple...however, the weirdness and dark element pretty much killed it for me. Particularly when the title character finally works her way into the plot(virtually comes dragging in from out of nowhere, seemingly from the swamp in all black with bugs all over her,etc) and the way she went out(buck naked, pregnant, broad daylight, with a bunch of classical Pentecostal sisters praying her back to from whence she came...eerie). Like the Color Purple and even Roots, there was some history in the mix, however, the mysticism threw me off a little. A comparison/contrast of Beloved & Color Purple would look alot like the comparison/contrast of The Last Temptation of Christ and the Passion of the Christ. Good, but too weird, I'll pass.
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