This question was kind of difficult for me because I haven't watched a movie in its entirety for a very long time, but if I remember correctly, the last one I watched was Love and Basketball. In that movie, Sanaa Lathan's character is very strong-willed and independent. Reid frequently mentions the Womanist analysis in his writing; Lathan's character seems to fit in well with this perspective in that she is, as mentioned before, strong-willed and all about following her own path. At the end of Chapter 5, Reid mentions "Hollywood binary images of black womanhood as either overweight matriarchs or brazen vixens." In Love and Basketball, Lathan's character is neither one of these prototypes (despite her otherworldly attractiveness) because of the complexity of her personality, which ranges from fiery to level-headed, stone-faced to wildly emotional, and needy to independent.
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