Their eyes were watching God

I watched this film in class today and you would think watching a film in class would be boring or uninteresting but this one was not, I enjoyed this film a lot. This story is about Janie who is the wife of the town's mayor, their relationship is not that great for her as the mayor is a very stern and proud man, he pretty much tells her what to do and does not tolerate her having a mind of her own. The mayor in the film treats her wife like an object, he tells her what to do, what to wear and punishes her for trying to think for herself, when she has an opinion he verbally and physically abuses her, when they have a disagreement he punches her in front of the entire town, on his deathbed his dying words are that he hopes she will get struck by lightning and die, he was a cold man, after he dies Janie feels freedom she never felt before, and she meets Tea cake, they get along differently than she did with her husband, they do things together and run away together. Eventually he is bitten by a dog and has rabies which goes to the point where she has to shoot him before he kills her. What I liked about the film is it's believable, I cared about the characters, the characters that were meant to be hated I hated, and I wanted to see what would happen and I cared about Janie and Tea cake. At the end Janie said that for the first time she was living her life and not someone else's life.  This film has charm and replay value to it, I honestly liked the film and I'd watch it again if I had the chance.