Live Life Team
This is one of those movies that you can enjoy a lot more if you’ve seen the stage play by David Payton. This movie is an adaptation of that play, but it contains enough differences to make it interesting. Even if you’ve seen the play, you honestly don’t know where this movie leads because certain scenes are handled entirely different between the two.
This movie is an urban drama centering around the lives of three contemporary black women. The subject is their romantic lives and how each is different based on the outlook of the individual woman. There’s shrewd Rachel, who you would never think could make bad choices in men, yet despite her shrewd and savvy ways, she winds up getting shafted just as much as her lesser worldwise contemporary.
There’s independent Monica who swears she will never depend on a man for anything, yet there she is falling helplessly in love with someone who will have the ability to lead her around by the nose because her increasing dependence on him has rendered her independence a thing of the past.
Then there’s upright Charlene who tries to deal with her relationship problems in an honest and moral-laden way, despite the fact that she gets hurt everytime.
This film focuses on this unlikely trio and how each one grapples with all the normal relationship problems that go with the quest of trying to find Mr. Right in a world where there are truthfully very few Mr. Rights.
The movie is heartbreaking, but it also has some triumphs as well. I definitely enjoyed it, though after watching it I was still happy to be single. No man is worth the crap they put up with.
