11-21-2009 Weirdest Robkast Hey whats up people, right now we are about to get into the movie review for "Precious",
starring Gabourey Sidibe as Precious, Mo'Nique as her abusive mother
Mary, Paula Patton as her lesbian teacher Ms. Rain, and Mariah Carey
as social worker Ms. Weiss. This film is based of the novel "Push"
which was written by Sapphire back in 1996 and the film takes place
some time in the early 90's.
Precious is the story of an obese
17 year old black girl from uptown Manhattan who can barely read or
write, and is constantly abused by her mother(physically and sexually),
repeatedly sexually abused by her father(who happens to impregnate her
twice), always insulted by her classmates and peers. She escapes from
her horrible life by daydreaming of being a famous movie star, and
often wishes she was a skinny white girl. In school she is so far
behind that it is requested that she attend an alternative school to
continue her education. While at home she must endure the pains of
having to serve her mother's needs, whatever they might be at that
particular moment. She must also play her part as sex partner whenever
her father comes around. Her first child is born with birth defects due
to the fact that she was birthed by Precious' father.(Precious is
pregnant the first half of the film with her second child). Mary played
by Mo'Nique displays no love for Precious or her kids, constantly
mistreating her and having her do tasks out of spite, Mary feels
unimportant because she doesn't work and waits for Precious to collect
welfare in order to provide for the family. Mary hates the fact that
her husband would rather sleep with their daughter instead of her, so
she takes that aggression out on Precious and her kids. So deciding to
change her life Precious attends the alternative school where her
teacher played by Paula Patton, makes precious feel special and
important, and helps her with her reading and writing skills, and shows
her that there is always a way out of a bad situation.
This
movie was excellent, stunning, heart breaking, and rough. It held no
punches while displaying the gritty life of the characters and the
influences of the peers. Even though just as things started to get
interesting the movie abruptly ends and leads you to have to interpret
whats to come, I felt like as if it served its purpose and allowed you,
the audience a chance to feel for not just Precious, but for everybody
in her life who helped or hurt her. The jobs done by Sidibe, Mo'Nique,
Carey, Patton, and even almost unrecognizable Lenny Kravitz and Sherri
Shepherd, were terrific and heart felt. There should definitely be some
Oscar buzz around this film, and it definitely gets my nod for film of
the year, so far.
