‘Divorce in the Black’ is the latest work of Hollywood filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry, and it has sparked much discussion among critics and audiences. ‘Divorce in the Black’ tells the story of a preacher’s daughter, Ava (Meagan Good), who is in love with an abusive husband, Dallas (Cory Hardrict). She stays on, hoping that her love for him will change him.
Still, her hot-tempered, angry, aggressive, trauma-haunted husband is perpetually drawn to the life of high-handedness, alcoholism and violence synonymous with the ghetto family in which he was raised. This keeps him continually venting his frustrations, anger, and bitterness on his wife Ava, a clear relationship between the prey and the predator. Then came the night in shining armour, Benji (Joseph Anderson), a high school ex-lover, to the rescue.
The movie starts on a high note, with a burial setting in a church as the opening scene. The officiating minister, Clarence, Ava’s father, though not in support of the marriage of his daughter to Dallas, agreed to bury Dallas’ eldest brother, whose death was a result of a robbery gone wrong. In his message, Clarence preached about the importance of living a righteous life while on earth, referring to the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:27&28.
Present in the church were church members but also the family of the deceased, Bertrand, his four brothers and his mother, who were all fuming at the time. The deceased’s mother could no longer help it; thus, sh.