In Defense of 'For Colored Girls'

Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' has been taking a lot of flak lately. Jimi Izrael comes to the defense:

The persistent criticism of For Colored Girls as a yet another film in the canon of Black Female Misery Porn or as being too ambitious, misses the point. It’s like criticizing Schindler’s List for being anti-Semitic or Titanic as a harsh commentary on American naval engineering.

and

Art is never “too ambitious” – most often, it’s not ambitious enough. If anything, Perry should have taken more chances, visually and otherwise. All in, and judged strictly on the merits, Perry’s was a worthy effort. His mistake is that he chose to expose a largely unsophisticated audience to a complex piece of art without context, using commercial Hollywood’s aesthetic sensibilities. Movie audiences, and black audiences in particular, have lost touch with their critical eye for cinematic art.

Eloquent as always.