The Woman of the House

Crooklyn. Dir. Spike Lee
   Feat. Alfre Woodard (Carolyn), Delroy Lindo  (Woody),
   &Zelda Harris (Troy), 1994


        At first the film seems as though it's about the entire family, but as it goes on you see that the main focus is on the daughter. Troy is the only girl out of five children. She had a special connection with her parents, but she and her mother had the strongest bond in the film.

Towards the early middle of the movie Carolyn (Alfre Woodard) and Woody (Delroy Lindo), the parents, start having problems and temporarily separated. Troy tries to help patch things up and when things go back to normal  the father is getting to have a show and for them summer they send the children get separated and sent to stay with other families, but Troy ends up staying with her aunt, uncle, and cousin [this is confusing;  Troy goes down south because her mother is teaching summer school, and it "wouldn't be proper for her to run the streets like her older brothers"]. Troy wasn't very fond of the people she was staying with [Uncle Clem and Aunt Song], but after a while she creates a bond with her cousin Viola and gets to see how different they live from her family.

She is given the chance  -  asserts herself and insists on going home after her birthday celebration  -  to come back home or stay longer and after being away from her family she decides to go back home only to find out that her mother is extremely sick and on her death bed. Before her mother passed away she whispers something in Troy's ear, right after that Troy tries her hardest to hold in all her emotions because she wants to be strong. From that point on Troy becomes the head of the house as if she was taking the place of her mother.

          I enjoyed watching this film, it was something that some people can relate to and it tells a good story. There wasn't a time where I got bored watching it, I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone.