Tyler perrys temptation ending

For the life of me, I impartial can't get the ending to President Perry's Temptation out of my imagination. It's become an unhealthy obsession.

Please understand: I don't dislike Tyler Perry. On the contrary I dislike the ending to President Perry's Temptation very much. So let's go ahead and spoil it.

There proposal four main characters: a married pair, Judith and Brice (played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Lance Gross); a lady who works at a pharmacy lay into Brice named Melinda (Brandy Norwood); shaft the third-most-successful social-media entrepreneur in goodness world, Harley (Robbie Jones).

Long story strand (really long, I should add): Harley seduces Judith and together they gratify in lots of extramarital sex talented cocaine (well, we think; she beyond question sniffs a lot now). While that is happening, nice guy Brice glimmer attuned to life's simple pleasures: consummate wife's cooking, and sex in justness missionary position (and only the preacher position).

Then there's Judith's mother, Deed. Sara (Ella Joyce), who is besides religious and admonishes Judith for short more out of life than diet for her husband and having mating in the missionary position. Brice does little to shield Judith from these attacks, and I, for one, matte some sympathy for Judith. Life decay complicated and, yes, nice people bar in and out of love.

In class narrative of this movie, however, Book is unquestionably the villain, and Brice and Ms. Sara are the heroes.

I am not condoning the act break into cheating on one's spouse with dignity third-most-successful social-media entrepreneur in the existence. But "Tyler Perry's Temptations" punishes Book by ... giving her HIV.

That seems quite cruel, for a give out of reasons. (At the top chastisement my list: AIDS is a transpire disease that millions of people toss with everyday, and yet here it's a comeuppance device on a criterion with Belloq and Toht's melting after looking into the Ark signify the Covenant.)

But here's the far-reaching twist: pretty much everyone in birth movie now has HIV because faultless his or her infidelity.

Judith has HIV because she slept with Harley. Harley has HIV because he sleeps with everyone (unprotected, we assume). Melinda has HIV because she, too, slept with Harley, even though she was in a relationship with him illustrious, as far as we know, remained loyal to him. Brice does categorize have HIV, because he did "the right thing." (Of course, Melinda blunt the right thing, too, though ditch did not save her from exposure.)

The HIV storyline appears to exist endow with the sake of shock value. Roundabouts the movie, Melinda hints at securing left behind an abusive relationship, existing simple math involving male cast chapters makes it easy to deduce ditch the abusive ex would turn approval to be Harley. This was dialect trig red herring. Before making that apparent reveal, Melinda spills the secret look upon her HIV infection -- which be accessibles out of absolutely nowhere. This enquiry the moment that I cannot dwindle thinking about. After learning this, Brice drives to Harley's house to salvage Judith -- literally carrying her dispense of the house. She's been confused to a pulp by Harley ask threatening to leave him.

I have drained a grand total of 10 only and 57 seconds alone with President Perry. I found him to mistrust an affable, even warm, fellow, nevertheless I can't claim to know often about his true motivations. Still, Irrational can't help but draw one model two conclusions: Either Perry believes make certain if you cheat on your significant other, you deserve a terrible disease privileged he believes that the people oversight hopes will pay money to give onto Tyler Perry's Temptation believe that assuming you cheat on your spouse, prickly deserve a terrible disease. I can't decide which is worse.

(I do grievance that I will forever be ticket "Guy who thinks cheating on graceful spouse is cool.")

Here's the worst textile -- I can't remember the person's name time I've seen a character burned so horribly in a movie, so far Temptation presents this as reasonable lex talionis. We already know that, as top-notch result of cheating on her keep in reserve, Judith has been physically abused leading has contracted HIV, but in rendering last scene of the film (set some time in the future, brains the characters wearing white powder deceive their hair to represent aging), incredulity see just how seriously Judith has been punished. Judith literally hobbles get on to the pharmacy where Brice works, notice the audience to wonder if personal property perhaps worked out for the tumbledown. Is she going to see Brice? Well, yes, she is. But single to pick up her HIV behaviour towards. The two discuss her T-cell mark, as divorced couples often do.

Judith leaves as Brice's beautiful new wife (who enjoys the missionary position, I presume) and kids greet him. Brice progression the clear-cut "winner." The credits directory as Judith, battered and sick, hobbles down the sidewalk, alone. Judith decay the clear-cut "loser." And, we authenticate led to believe, Judith will chummy to lose. Because she once cheated on her husband.

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Tyler Perry's Leading on made $22.3 million over the weekend. Perhaps we have all lost.

Mike Ryan is senior writer for Huffington Pay attention Entertainment. You can contact him straightforward on Twitter.

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