Life is hard. Life is Short. Life is Painful. Life is... Precious

Advantages: Amazing preformances. A really inspirational movie.
Disadvantages: Quite dark, and in places very hard to watch.

...Precious: Based on the Novel Push By Sapphire When I heard about Precious during the Oscars, it was one of the films that I really didn?t seem interested in. It wasn?t until I saw Gabourey Sidibe on Jonathan Ross that I was actually really interested, to see the contrast to this obviously very happy and bubbly actress to the clips I had seen of the film, where her character was upset and unhappy interested me, she looked like she really was a fantastic actress and the movie itself looked more interesting than when I had heard about it during the awards season. We rented out the film this weekend and I was even more impressed than I think I thought I was going to be. The Plot The film follows Claireece ?Precious? Jones, a young 16 year old girl, who is suspended from her school because she is pregnant for the second...

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Precious By Name, Precious By Nature

Advantages: Poignant, moving, superbly acted
Disadvantages: Harrowing

...In 1987 Harlem, Claireece 'Precious' Jones is stuck in a dangerous and depressing rut. She's pregnant with her second child, Fathered by her own Father, and her Mother yells abuse at her at every available opportunity to make the morbidly obese 16 year old feel worthless. Having no self confidence and being a shy girl Precious often disappears into her imagination where she envisages a better life, however for an illiterate 16 year old with two children these dreams seem a world away... Based the novel 'Push' by Sapphire, Precious is the harrowing and heartrending story of a 16 year who seemingly has no way out. Used and abused the young girl has aspirations of a better life, only to have these crushed by her vile Mother (Mo'Nique) who believes that the young girl should do nothing more with her life than claim welfare and bring up her...

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Precious

Advantages: Powerful performances, strong narrative structure, grim setting
Disadvantages: None

...Clareece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) doesn't have a lot going for her. She is a 16-year-old teenager, pregnant for the second time, and for that has been suspended from school. Illiterate and obese, she finds no passion in life and can only hold on to the glamorous fantasies of her becoming a famous, beloved movie star, posing for various magazines, walking down the red carpet. Her home life couldn't be any worse. She has been raped several times by her biological father and is constantly abused, physically and emotionally, by her monstrous mother Mary. (Mo'Nique) She's a chain-smoking waste of space, lazing around in front of the TV, expecting her daughter to do everything for her, and blaming all the life's hardships on Precious. "Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire," (the full title) is already a box-office hit in...

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