The horror of Precious's circumstances notwithstanding, this ought to be a recipe for mere mawkishness, a thank-you card to America's front-line social services.
That it isn't is a tribute to the look of the film, at once gritty and hypnotic, full of hazy overexposures and lush fantasy sequences, and to the calibre of the performances. Mariah Carey dutifully effaces her star persona as a dogged social worker and Sidibe's heroine delivers the required cocktail of pain and fortitude without visible self-consciousness.
She was more involved with the screenplay than she expected, she says. He's made a wonderfully sensitive film that challenges our prejudices and somehow makes you feel hopeful. In Utah, a white woman came up to me after a screening and said: I will never look at an overweight black woman in the same way again.
Actually, what it's really about is the transformative power of literacy. At the end of the film, Precious is still black, still poor and still fat but what's changed is that she can read and write and has begun to re-invent herself.
She has left her abusive home environment, and has gone from feeling stupid and worthless to embracing a positive vision of her future. She smiles. An abused person empowering herself through language and literature and writing. I did the same. Thirteen years ago I planted a seed, and now this big tree comes. ES Money. The Escapist. The Reveller. The Optimist. ES Best. ES Mag. Precious instinctively sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school.
Under the patient, firm guidance of her new teacher, Ms. Rain Paula Patton , Precious begins the journey from oppression to self-determination. Claireece Precious Jones is 16 years old and pregnant with her father's baby.
It will be her second child by him; she gave birth to her first — a daughter with Down's syndrome — when she was At home, her mother beats and sexually molests her. The script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, adapted from the novel Push by Sapphire. Why is precious rated R? Why is Precious rated R? Depictions of domestic violence and physical abuse are abundant.
The film's biggest flow is emotional inconsistency: in an attempt to portray Precious' inner feelings, Daniels injects strangely conceived fantasy sequences at key dramatic moments in which Precious imagines herself as a glamorous and famous personality. While the intention of these sequences is clear, their abruptness just totally jolts the audience out of the emotional flow of the film, and they just seem out of place.
For a similar reason, Daniels chooses to set grim and dramatic scenes to oddly inappropriate songs and musical cues, which once again just feel forced and out of place, and interrupt the emotional resonance of the scenes. Other than that, the film just seems poorly done at times, or simply unfinished: the cinematography is inconsistent and often features zooms and loss of focus that don't feel like stylistic choices but rather just like mistakes.
In addition, the editing is quite disjointed at times, and many cuts interrupt musical cues in the middle or otherwise are just so sudden and jumbled that they completely ruin the dramatic flow.
Finally, I just felt that while many separate scenes work wonderfully and are emotional and genuinely gut-wrenching, they are just too loosely connected for the film to actually carry a consistent dramatic arc throughout, as it jumps between Precious' brutal home life to her newfound support in her classroom to her day-to-day activities to her inner fantasies.
For example, a major dramatic reveal near the end of the film end sup completely ignored and thus irrelevant to the dramatic arc. As I mentioned earlier, the performances are absolutely spectacular, but the inconsistencies in the film's tone and its jumbled and odd editing take away from what otherwise could have been a genuinely affective film. Monotreme02 Dec 10, FAQ 5. What is "Precious" about? Is 'Precious' based on a book?
How does the movie end? Details Edit. Release date November 20, United States. United States. English Italian. Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 50 minutes. Related news. Sep 21 E! Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap. What is the Japanese language plot outline for Precious ? See more gaps Learn more about contributing.
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