This movie gets me all the time...*pulls out tissue*
*Sniff, sniff*,"...I love you past past my mind...beyond my heart..., I love you from my soul, And that's the space where only you and God dwell", Frankie, Madea's family reunion. Am I the only one who becomes all mushy when they watch the wedding scene from this movie? (My favourite scene in the entire movie.)
To hear such words being said to you, I guess it's every girl's dream! 'Madea's Family Reunion' is one of my favourite Tyler Perry movies but in a way, it gets me a little depressed. Where does a girl find ''Frankie"? (especially one as good-looking as Boris Kodjoe). A simple man who loves you in spite of your "past". I mean a genuine love. The movie touches on several subjects including gender-based violence, rape, family unity and second chances.
I feel very protective of my daughter, when I think about how Vanessa's mother, Victoria, used Vanessa as a lamb of sacrifice, by allowing a man, her husband to rape her own daughter, just so that she can have a 'comfortable' life. Seriously? Yes, single motherhood is challenging, (especially financially), but your own child? And then Vanessa's sister, Lisa, is forced to get married to a rich, abusive man, to maintain that lifestyle. (All my feminist hormones boil up). No woman, no mother, should allow any form of abuse to happen to her daughters, no matter what. (Shedding a tear) But I commend Vanessa for being a wonderful mother to her own children. She breaks the cycle of abusive motherhood that her very own mother experienced. Oh yes, Victoria had a rough childhood and didn't know how to love or protect her own children.
And then there's the aspect of family. This is like the most powerful part of the movie,where the older generation realize the gaps that needed to be bridged within the ''clan". This part reminds me very much of my own family. (We need another reunion). There is power in family! There is power in unity! There is power in love! We all need to go back to the culture of valuing the extended family. (Not to mention the powerful speech made by aunt Myrtle)
There is so much I could quote from the movie, (but that would need a longer page). Scripting my life like the movie, I would say, I am like Vanessa. And of course, that beautiful poem by my inspiration, Maya Angelou, ''In and Out'', she recites,
"The sun has come,
The mist has gone,
We see in the distance our long way home,
I was always yours to have,You were always mine,
We have loved each other in and out of time".
Oh, Maya!
Vanessa forgave. Vanessa found love. Vanessa had the most beautiful wedding ever. The wedding was Madea's family reunion. We all need a family reunion. We all need love.
P.S: Always write your own love story.
Ciao!
Lady E
*Sniff, sniff*,"...I love you past past my mind...beyond my heart..., I love you from my soul, And that's the space where only you and God dwell", Frankie, Madea's family reunion. Am I the only one who becomes all mushy when they watch the wedding scene from this movie? (My favourite scene in the entire movie.)
To hear such words being said to you, I guess it's every girl's dream! 'Madea's Family Reunion' is one of my favourite Tyler Perry movies but in a way, it gets me a little depressed. Where does a girl find ''Frankie"? (especially one as good-looking as Boris Kodjoe). A simple man who loves you in spite of your "past". I mean a genuine love. The movie touches on several subjects including gender-based violence, rape, family unity and second chances.
I feel very protective of my daughter, when I think about how Vanessa's mother, Victoria, used Vanessa as a lamb of sacrifice, by allowing a man, her husband to rape her own daughter, just so that she can have a 'comfortable' life. Seriously? Yes, single motherhood is challenging, (especially financially), but your own child? And then Vanessa's sister, Lisa, is forced to get married to a rich, abusive man, to maintain that lifestyle. (All my feminist hormones boil up). No woman, no mother, should allow any form of abuse to happen to her daughters, no matter what. (Shedding a tear) But I commend Vanessa for being a wonderful mother to her own children. She breaks the cycle of abusive motherhood that her very own mother experienced. Oh yes, Victoria had a rough childhood and didn't know how to love or protect her own children.
And then there's the aspect of family. This is like the most powerful part of the movie,where the older generation realize the gaps that needed to be bridged within the ''clan". This part reminds me very much of my own family. (We need another reunion). There is power in family! There is power in unity! There is power in love! We all need to go back to the culture of valuing the extended family. (Not to mention the powerful speech made by aunt Myrtle)
There is so much I could quote from the movie, (but that would need a longer page). Scripting my life like the movie, I would say, I am like Vanessa. And of course, that beautiful poem by my inspiration, Maya Angelou, ''In and Out'', she recites,
"The sun has come,
The mist has gone,
We see in the distance our long way home,
I was always yours to have,You were always mine,
We have loved each other in and out of time".
Oh, Maya!
Vanessa forgave. Vanessa found love. Vanessa had the most beautiful wedding ever. The wedding was Madea's family reunion. We all need a family reunion. We all need love.
P.S: Always write your own love story.
Ciao!
Lady E
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