The Color Purple

Another beautiful, fun day. It was warm and sunny, perfect weather for grilling while sipping some tasty brews. Anthony and I went to see Werner Herzog's new film The Cave of Forgotten Dreams today as well. It's a documentary about the oldest cave paintings ever discovered, and the whole thing is shot in 3-D. It sounds sort of dull but it was incredible, and we kept talking about it for the rest of the day. It was stunning.

Enough about Herzog. Today I watched The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1985. I read the book my senior year of high school, and I really liked it. I never saw the movie, though. Ebert mentions it has some meh parts - like how negatively it portrays all of the black men in the film. The movie, though, is not a big statement about how all people act. It's just one story, one person's life story, and I think in that respect it works really well.