their eyes were watching God

 

Whenever a books turns into a film, it is very predictable. Their eyes were watching God was a movie with Halle Berry, Terrance Howard and Michael Eally in it. Every character, setting, and event in this movie had a significant meaning. Their eyes were watching God was released March 16, 2005.  The genre of this movie was fiction and the setting was in rural Florida.

First off, Their Eyes Were Watching God describes the life of Janie, a black woman who experiences different men and love. She was raised by her grandmother and spends her life traveling with different men until she finally returns home. In her journey she finds that she has to depend on different people, two of those people were her grandmother and Logan kellicks. Janie’s marriage with Logan Killicks was arranged by her grandmother; it was by force not choice.  Her grandmother wanted her to marry a decent man before she died, so that Janie would not have to depend on her and would not have a hard life. However, Janie was unhappy because her marriage was not what she wanted; it was what her grandmother wanted. She was just married to be married and the first chance she got to find someone that she thought was worth marrying, she took that chance.

Secondly, the men she dated had a great influence on her look of life. The next man she married was Joe sparks; she met him while she was with Logan. Logan was a well dress black man who was looked highly upon at the community Eatonville. Janie found him as the perfect man until one day the perfect man became the abusive controlling man.  For example, as time passed he wanted Janie to only serve him all three meals each day and wear her hair up because he saw and knew that he was not the only man that wanted Janie; he controlled her by telling her that she could not have the best without him.  It made Janie feel like she was not anything without him

Lastly, Janie found teacake, a young man that was younger than her. She saw things in teacakes that she haven’t seen in the other men she was with; he showed her life, youth, and true love.   For example, he took her to a soul club and she hasn’t been around anything like that. The music and people around her made her feel younger than what she really was and that made her love teacake even more. However, the movie shifts when she has to kill him because he got rabies from a diseased dog that tried to attack Janie in the big hurricane. That showed he sacrificed his life just for Janie.  However, it was still a melancholy scene because the one person who she truly loved, she had to kill.

             In conclusion, the significant parts of the movie shift many times. The setting of this movie changes the mood of the scenes. Janie experienced different men to find herself and was pleased at the end of the movie because she found herself.