The Secret Life of Bee's

Just finished watching this film and thought i would share it with my blog readers.  The film is about a young white girl in civil rights America who wants answers of what happened to her mother and why her father does not love her.  All she has is a picture of her mother, the image of a black Mary and Jesus, and a name of a town.  It has a all star cast with Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson putting in great performances.

The film is set in America back when black Americans were fighting for civil rights which make a nice back drop to film.  A small glimpse into the aparthied that was occurring in America is shown and the abuse which black men and women suffered.  One of the lines in the film from Alicia Keys was 'how do these white people hate us when they are raised by black women' stuck with me.  The fact that in this time, whites did not think the black members of society were equal to them but, they let them raise their most valued assets - their kids.  

This however is overshadowed and the good in people and their ability to be kind to strangers.  The fact that colour has no affect on truly good people and their ability to see through a person to their qualities means far more.  The little girl runs away from her abusive dad with her nanny and best friend who had been arrested for an injustice that had occurred to her because she was black.  They end up in the town that was on the picture and find the house with the black Mary (which has its own story).  There she remembers what had happened to her mother and receives more love than she ever had received and ends up with 3 amazing, strong, kind and loving mothers.