Playing on: Server 1
List Server
The Color Purple
Set in rural Georgia during the first 40 years of the twentieth century, the film centers on the life of a fictional character named Celie, an oppressed black woman. In the film Celie endures rape, sexism, the loss of her children at birth, a tyrannical husband, domestic violence, chauvinism, the loss of her sister and the demoralization of her friend (Sofia) who also loses her freedom to the law.