I never really thought about the fictional character before now, I always looked at the actress. The fictional character that I relate to the most is a women named Helen McCarter. Helen is played by Kimberly Elise in a movie titled ‘Diary Of A Mad Black Woman’ written by Tyler Perry.
The Movie
Happily Married
This movie was about a woman who married her college sweetheart and was ‘ride to die’ for 18 years when he came home one night and put her out. She had given up her own future to live his. She stood by his side to only be abused by him in every way imaginable. She spent their younger years going thru the stresses that life placed on them causing her to not be able to have any children. After he became a big lawyer and rich, he pretended to be the loving husband but also began to always has to put in long hours leaving his wife alone in a big ole house.
The Other Woman
It was the 18th anniversary of their marriage when Helen found out that she was being replaced with a woman whom her husband had an affair with for years and this woman gave him what Helen couldn’t, 2 children (sons, every mans’ dream).
It was a struggle but once Helen decided to move on with her life, she demonstrated the strength, dedication, & determination to go on.
Her Dairy
The strength to pick herself up and move on in life is what resonates with me. I love that she was able to keep a dairy and devote her feelings & anger to paper. Her day-to-day life after the down spiral her life had taken started her on a journey where she grew from hatred to love. She went from the lowest point in life to a high that one could only live to even begin to know what she went through.
Although, this movie came out long after the lows in my own life, there was a part of the movie that further strengthen me that showed me I could reach heights of life that I didn’t know or think was possible.
My favorite parts of the movie
There’s a part of the movie where I have mixed feelings, when Helen is thrown into a situation where she had to strong through all her anger. Her husband, now seeking divorce, was shot and on life support. Helen, went to the hospital to find that the woman he left her for was about to pull the plug. This is where she began to fight. After the hospital found that legally they were still married and that gave Helen the right to make the decision about his life. Although she was filled with hate for him and very angry for what he had done, she still could not just give up on him like that.
Mad As Hell
She put her life on hold from the new love & happiness she found to move back in to his home and take care of him, as now he was handicapped and unable to do anything for himself. She was mad and let him know by treating him as hurtful as he had treated her. This may sound bad or mean, but you have to watch it to understand why I liked it so much. And besides, it made him stronger and get over that cold spirit he had towards her. It made him see what she felt when he treated her so wrong through those years of their marriage & when he threw her out the house with nothing but her clothes.
New Love
The other part to me was the best part of the movie, when she had grown and found strength, she was no longer the ‘mad black woman’ & was able to allow love into her life as well as give love again.
Kimberly Elise, played this role well and displayed very well the emotions of life’s ups and downs. This movie portrays many emotions we all go through, but what I like is the strength of a strong black woman & the actions we take. Bring able to go through all the downs and rise above to end up on top.
There are many movies with fictional characters like Helen McCarter, played by several good actresses (black, white, & other ethnicity) but this is one of my favorites. Another movie is ‘Apple Mortgage Cake’, also played by Kimberly Elise.
This movie moves me as a mother named, ‘Angela Logan’ is raising 3 sons, nearly men now, but is fighting to save her home which has been in her family for three generations. The house is falling apart and the city is on her to bring it to code. She’s been out of work (a substitute teacher), and money is running out, and on top of all that her youngest son, still in high school is suspended for bringing a knife to school. In the end everything works out and she finds love & support. But you have to watch it to see how a long-time family recipe for apple cake helps her to save her family & home.
Conclusion
Both of these movies fictional characters are as real as life can be. Things may not always go like in the movies and even some of the things that take place in the movies wouldn’t fly in real life but these things do happen.
Sometimes when your down it seems like there’s never a come up but it’s the strong woman that survives the toughest threats that life had to offer. That’s what makes these women like me. I know I have had some really low times in my life and now at nearly 60years old I’ve seen better days for about the last 15 years of my life. I’ve been through some of the challenges that are portrayed in these movies and when it all said & done, I’m still here. I’ve been down low and have seemed to rise above the crap including find true love at a late age in life after going through some rough stuff. My life now is like in the movies, I’ve been down several times and when it rains it pours but I’ve always found the strength to pick myself up and rise above it all.
My Husband & Me - The times of my life!!
My life now is full of love & happiness! We just celebrated our 12th year year anniversary on March 18, 2022 and have been together for 16 years to the date!!
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