Comparison for "For Colored Girls” and “Out of Our Father’s House”

When I saw the films "For Colored Girls" and "Out of Our Father's House", I noticed that both of these films had similarities and differences as well. For instance, in the film "For Colored Girls", the actresses are African American and mostly portray the hardships that African American Women have gone through or deal with. The difficulties that they have undergone are explained and shown through poetry. The hardships of the women in the film deal with love, rape, abortion, and abandonment. Although, in both of the films the women showed us their love experiences with men and how it affected them and what occurred due to those experiences. The women also tell us, that they overcame the problems that were put up against them. While in the film, "Out of Our Father's House", the actresses are white and discuss women's suffrage and how Elizabeth Cady Stanton had a major impact in the women's suffrage movement. In the film, "For Colored Girls", was a bit more modern in age because of the clothing that the women and the men were wearing and the language that they utilized. While, in the film, "Out of Our Father's House", the women were in the older days, because of the outfits that were worn by the women and the language that they used in order to express themselves. For the film, "For Colored Girls" had various settings such as the park, different rooms, a school dance, etc. While in the other film their was only one setting which was one room.