Compare/Contrast "Colored Girls" and "Out Of Our Fathers House"...

                Compare and Contrast Essay

The films “Colored Girls” and “Out Of Our Fathers House,” both share similarities, but at the same time express very different messages. In “Colored Girls,” the film is about African American women who had to go through many hurdles and still get through everyday life. Although in the film “Out Of Our Fathers House,” it explains how many women suffered to get equality and get the same or at least similar rights as men had in the early 1900’s. While these two films sound different, they have similarities in different ways such as: what they fought for in both films and how they acted similarly in both films.

The two films are different in many ways, because they have different settings, and talk about two different subjects. In “Colored Girls,” African American women describe their daily lives, and all the bad things they have to go through. They explained how they have to take care of their children as single mothers, while their husbands could be fighting in the Vietnam War. Another obstacle that they explained was that they had to put up with their husbands mistreating them, and sometimes mistreated their children as well. This is different from “Out Of Our Fathers House” because in this film the time period is in the early 1900’s, unlike “Colored Girls” which was in the 1970’s. It is also different because the women in this film are explaining something completely different, which is suffrage. They explained they wanted to get the same rights as men, because they deserved equality for women as well. These are the two main reasons that I think mostly separate these two films.

While these two films have differences, they also have similarities between them. One way that these two films are similar is that they both show women having to fight through many things to overcome obstacles, and which in both films one of those obstacles is men. Also these two films are similar because they way they were shot, in the beginning each woman in both films have a turn each to say their speech’s, but in the end they all come together and talk as a group. Last one of the most important similarities of both films was the message they sent to their audience, which was no matter what time period or how many rights women might have, they still have to go through more obstacles in life than men might have to fight for.