TYLER PERRY'S STRAW

A review on Tyler Perry's Straw as a remarkable heartthrobing movie which could give you a stroke in the process, especially parents—to be more specific—single mothers. Enjoy.

It is a story of Janiyah, a low income African American single mother who has been up and doing to give her sick daughter a better life. In the process, she got kicked out by her persisting landlady who couldn't wait for three days to pay her rent. Her boss fired her only because she spent beyond the time she had requested in order to solve her daughter's lunch bill. Her child's school reported her of not being able to take goodcare of her daughter; the agency therefore took the little girl away from her.

On the day she went to collect her cheque, after being fired, two armed guys wanted to rob her boss at the spot. Being bold and couldn't watch it happen without doing anything like a picture frame, she snatched away the piston and shot one guy, the other bolted. The menial and gutless boss called 911 and reported her of robbing him with her accomplice. Overwhelmingly confused, Janiyah shot him too and ran off. 

Immediately, Janiyah ran to her bank to cash out her cheque so that she could pay off her daughter's bills. On getting there and on being denied to help her cash the cheque without means of identification, she mistakenly flashed the piston she carried from the previous scene, and the whole bank panicked... She was then reported of being robbed a bank!

"I just need to work this out", Janiyah said when she realized the mess she was in—with the piston in her hand—and again her daughter's project which was assumed as an explosive. The assumed hostages were confused too, nor was she looking like she was robbing the bank or taking them as hostages. She left them go simultaneously while armed to the teeth police and FBI were waiting outside.

She was later convinced to surrender in order to get herself exonerated.

"Your daughter died last night!"

This is line that got me paralyzed for few seconds. As a father or let me put it this way, as a concerned human being, you can't watch this movie and not feel being subtle for a while. It takes a lot of courage, perseverance and doggedness to raise a kid alone.