Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' By Sapphire (2009) [Blu-ray]
Drama

Precious Jones, an inner-city high school girl, is illiterate, overweight, and pregnant...again. Naive and abused, Precious responds to a glimmer of hope when a door is opened by an alternative-school teacher. She is faced with the choice to follow opportunity and test her own boundaries. Prepare for shock, revelation and celebration.

User Comment: ccrivelli2005 from Rome, Italy, 7 December 2009 • Once every so often a film comes along that will change your perception of things. In one way or another it will give you elements to better yourself. "Precious" is such a film. Lee Daniels, the director, takes things to extremes, so much so that this could easily be an opera. When you think that things couldn't be worse, you discover that they have been worse already for a long time. Precious is played by a sort of miracle. Her name is Gubarey Sidibe and I don't even know how to pronounce it but I will certainly take her in my mind from now on, always. When she stands listening to the rantings of her mother, I surprised myself by feeling tears running down my face. The mother, a standout, once in a lifetime performance by Mo'Nique, is also a character we've never seen before. Brutal, unsentimental and truthful to the core. I saw the film over three weeks ago and I can't shake it out of my system, if that in itself is not a sign of greatness I don't know what is.

Summary: Once every so often...

[CSW] -3- Although I would have liked a more in-depth look at what was going on inside of Precious' head during the very abusive and completely hostile environment it was still a story that needed to be told. There seems to be some kind of blind numbness that takes over for some people in unusually prolonged and harsh conditions if that person is unusually good. I don't have any idea if during that time they themselves can know what they are thinking or feeling. Regardless this unusually brutally story can change your perspective on life and of people and thus it should not be missed buy anyone that thinks they know what a good person in an unbelievably personally abusive situation has left to believe in or hold on to make their existence bearable.
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