![]() ![]() But even though they escape the ghetto, the sisters cannot escape its problems, and their dream of celebrity and success becomes a nightmare of jealousy and drugs in this powerful tale. I can't fly with one wing, but I can't I can't fly with one wing, I can't I can't fly with one wing, I can't. Sparkle (DVD) Three talented sisters claw their way from the Harlem ghetto to stardom in the rock 'n' world of the 1950s, a world of fame, music and Sparkle. Fly with one wing, no Fly with one wing, I can't I can't I can't Fly, fly, fly, fly. I can't fly with one wing, oh no No matter how hard I try, I can't no. ![]() I can't I can't I can't fly with one wing! Yeah, fly with one wing! No, I can't fly, fly with one wing. Oh, I'm need many nights, friend For the coming of my victory, Yeah But there's always there in the way of light I just can't get up on my feet To reach my destiny, Do it where I can't see It's just to high to reach, oh oh, no. One Wing song from the album Sparkle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is released on Jul 2012. Heaven help me, fly with one wing I can't fly with one wing, oh no No matter how hard I try, I can't no. Listen to Jordin Sparks One Wing MP3 song. Now, I'm on the runaway of my life oh Away to take off, but I-I-I Can not fly with one wing. Feels like I'm running out of time, And I gotta whole other things on my mind And I'm walking around with the dog, oh oh Trying to find just a little peak of sunshine No, no oh I did everything to make it work, But I'm still on my loss. ![]() But, one wing I can't fly with one wing Heaven help me, fly with one wing I can't fly with one wing, oh no No matter how hard I try, I can't no. And I wish I could get a running start Instead on my victory. No, cause all other sides, oh oh Torn towards bad for me. One of the truly great Supporting Actress turns of the year hidden in an unexpected place.Feels like I'm going down on one way street, And heavy direction I need, I need, I need heaven to show me just little affection. To Ejogo’s credit, her “Sister” doesn’t invoke the grievous narratives of Amy Winehouse or the great Whitney Houston, but honors their memory by giving them a happy ending, by playing a shooting star that doesn’t burn away. Ejogo’s “Sister” is still the wounded bird that can’t fly on one wing, but her well of sorrow and pain is not masked by a hair-trigger temperament as McKee’s was but by a desperate, depressed neediness that makes the audience want to see her succeed, to see her sing, to see her as a hopeful rather than a tragic figure. Ejogo strikes a balance between McKee’s deliberately rough, loud and bruised wild child and gives her “Sister” perhaps a touch more vulnerability, a touch more softness around the edges that McKee played with sharp, dangerously jagged bravado. The remake takes a few tame steps back from the brutal original’s hard-knock approach when it comes to “Sister”’s eventual fate in the movie, and takes it easier on the character, expertly played in the 1976 version by Lonette McKee (who really should have been up for Supporting Actress awards that year). She grounds the stilted movie in true passion, and in truly dynamic talent as witnessed in both her musical numbers as she belts out Curtis Mayfield’s love-ridden showstoppers and in her dramatic scenes as she descends into an abusive relationship and into drug abuse nearly as mercurially as she rose to fame as the leader singer of the girl group. This elaborate backdrop allows the deeply moving, emotional work by Ejogo to starkly contrast with the almost oppressive artificiality and garishness of the production. Highly stylized and set in 1976 Detroit, Sparkle moves far away from the first film’s hardscrabble Harlem milieu in favor of an inner city black middle class world that might have been manufactured for Douglas Sirk’s world, with it’s dramatically-staged Gospel numbers set in church and eye-popping set pieces dripping in schein as the trio works it out onstage. Playing “Sister”, the eldest daughter of righteous matriarch Emma (Whitney Houston) who fronts a girl group with her sisters Sparkle (Sparks, natch) and Dolores (Tika Sumpter), Ejogo delivers one of the year’s best performances that unfortunately happens to be in one of the year’s worst movies. Loosely based on the gritty 1976 original, the new film never quite takes off and because of this actress Carmen Ejogo’s blisteringly soulful performance will very unfortunately not be getting the awards attention it so richly deserves. And I wish I could get to run to start and solve my victory, but. ‘cause all of the signs, all, all, point towards back for me. Re-imagined as a star vehicle for, ahem, American Idol winner and recording artist Jordin Sparks, the 2012 version of the film was a bit of a letdown. Feels like I’m going down a one way street. Let’s just be real: the Sparkle remake was never going to be an awards juggernaut. ![]()
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