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Monday, 18 January 2010

LIFE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PRECIOUS!


I FINALLY laid my eyes on the movie Precious this passed weekend and I MUST say that is a MUST SEE! This movie touched me from start end and left NO emotion unturned in me. This was SO POWERFUL that he left all that went with me speechless. Normally after seeing a movie, as soon as we get in the car we discuss it...but there was just silence. This movie made me feel SO powerless and both Mo'Nique and  Gabourey Sidibe gave such AMAZING performances. My ONLY wish as I was leaving the theater is that EVERYONE that saw this movie would take the message from it and use it to turn themselves around.

In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece "Precious" Jones lives in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem with her dysfunctional mother; she has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl, and suffers long term physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. The family resides in a Section 8 tenement and subsists on welfare. Her first child, known only as "Mongo" (short for "Mongoloid"), has Down syndrome and is being cared for by Precious's grandmother.

Following the discovery of Precious' second pregnancy, she is suspended from school. Her junior high school principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school, which she hopes can help Precious change her life's direction.[7] Precious finds a way out of her traumatic daily existence through imagination and fantasy. While she is being raped by her father, she looks at the ceiling and imagines herself in a music video shoot; in the video, she is the superstar and the focus of attention. While looking in photograph albums, she imagines the pictures talking to her. When she looks in the mirror, she sees a pretty, white, thin, blonde girl. In her mind there is another world, one in which she is loved and appreciated.

Inspired by her new teacher Miss Blu Rain, Precious begins learning to read. Precious meets sporadically with a social worker named Miss Weiss, who learns about incest in the household when Precious unintentionally implies it to her. She gives birth to her second child and names him Abdul. While at the hospital, she meets John McFadden, a nurse who shows kindness to her. After Mary deliberately drops three-day-old Abdul and hits Precious, Precious fights back long enough to get her son and flees her home, permanently. Shortly after leaving the house, in an attempt to get out of the cold outside, Precious breaks into her school classroom and is found there in the morning by Miss Rain. The teacher finds assistance for Precious and she begins raising her son in a half-way house while she continues academically.

Feeling dejected, Precious meets Miss Weiss at her office, after a short conversation when Miss Weiss leaves the room, Precious steals her case file. Precious recounts the details of the file to her fellow students and has a new lease on life. Her mother comes back into her life to inform Precious that her father has died of AIDS. Later, Precious finds out that she and her mother are both HIV positive, but that Abdul is not. Mary and Precious see each other for the last time in Miss Weiss' office, where Weiss questions Mary on her abuse of Precious, and uncovers specific traumas Precious encountered. The film ends with Precious still resolved to improve for herself and for her children. She severs ties with her mother and makes plans to complete a General Educational Development test.

13 comments:

  1. Thank you sir for this piece. Everyone should see this film. I think it's the best film I've seen in ten years at least. And you're right - when I left the theater there was nothing to say. I would also recommend "A Single Man" with Colin Firth. Very different kind of film but really good.

    Scott

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  2. I agree the film is a "must see." Working in Outreach this is all to common in some case loads, it takes everything thing in me to keep from crying out loud.

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  3. I don't know if the movie is in our theaters or not. But this past Dec I thought of getting myself a copy of the book. Just wasn't sure if it was really worth it. I might order it after all. Only too lazy to go out all by myself to see the movie.

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  4. I really need to see this movie once and for all!

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  5. Hmmm.

    I watched this film with two other very opinionated friends last Thanksgiving. We too left the theatre speechless, because there was too much to process. We have been able to bite off and discuss little bits over the last few weeks. Powerful film. And an especially powerful performance from Mo'Nique- frighteningly believable.

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  6. SCOTT-TAY - I HOPE A SINGLE MAN COMES HERE...

    CHET - I KNOW RIGHT...I HAD TO TAKE OFF MY GLASSES A FEW TIMES...

    ANONYMOUS - WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

    EDUARDO - YEAH YOU SHOULD SEE IT!

    FLYU PIKNI - THIS MOVIE DOES STOP ONE IN HIS/HER TRACKS...

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  7. I love this movie. I am happy Monique won the award - they deserve it.

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  8. CORVEDACOSTA - YEAH HER AWARD WAS WELL DESERVED!

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  9. I was the Anonymous.

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  10. I mean, I live in South Africa.

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  11. Wait toodles. I just had a moment. Did you wanna take me out lovey? You know... JUST. THE. TWO. OF. US? WITHOUT NOEL? And treat me like a real lady? Even if I don't shave my legs?

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