Precious

i am extremely disapointed in all the reviews I have just read about this movie. its inspiring to people like precious, its powerful, and how can what precious goes through didnt move anyoneone? how would you feel if your mother called you mother f***** and b**** and hit you, that your father raped you more than twice, or that you had aids and you had to worry about your two babies and one is mentally ill, or that no one cared about you? would that move you then? or would you just say "i dont care, its not really anything important, its emotionless and stupid".

Come Oscar season we're going to see a high volume of "feel good" dramas. Last year it was "Slumdog Millionaire" and this time round it's "Precious". This film was incredibly depressing and like the reviewer below me after watching it I couldn't understand the hype. I accept that not all films are going to be entertaining, but this was beyond anything I've seen. Yes, it was raw and yes it was powerful, but can we honestly justify a characters misery as "entertainment". This was by far one of the most disturbing films that I've ever seen. In the UK we've had a high number of child abuse cases from children under 5. To know about it is one thing, but to actually see it is another. The only redeeming qualities were the performances by Gabourey Sibide and Mo'Nique. Mo'Nique was so realisitic in this film she frightened me and this coming from a woman who's a comedian. I hope that Mo'Nique receives the Oscar she truly deserves, but for myself personally I don't think I can watch t... Read more

This is a hard movie to rate. most people already know that this is NOT a feel good movie.it is very depressing upsetting and hard to watch. Precious is a 16 year old girl who is pregnant for her second child. bad enough. even worse is her disgusting father raped the girl and fathered both of her children. {why that piece of sh** it not in jail boggles my mind} this girl has never really known any happiness. her mother is horrible and jealous of Precious for "taking her man"{ Her man molested and raped his own child yet she blames Precious} there would be a lot of reasons to hate this movie but the acting is very good. she does end up at an alternative school and had a caring encouraging teacher. She even started up some friendships. there is a tiny ray of hope for Precious at the end.Not a movie you would put on to put you in a good mood. it leaves one angry and disgusted that a child could endure such horrors.maybe a sad reminder that this type of abuse really does happen.

No tears. Nothing in my hands at the start of the credits running at the end but the feeling that I'd been duped. Was this really the film that I'd heard so much good about? Clearly not. Oprah Winfrey is the executive producer of this mess, which says more than should be allowed, on the base of the synopsis: poor, abused, obese girl from the ghetto growing up in the mid-80s tries to live some sort of life with some kind of dignity amidst horrors and a family life in complete chaos. Voilá. The hype around this film enthralled me and I was genuinely looking forward to something interesting. To me, this film makes the English 1960s kitchen sink "genre" look even more grim than it otherwise does. While Precious is pinballed through society, hounded at home, her ways apathetic (possibly to abate/stand living) by all means, she finds school to be her oxygen. I found this very Oprah/Hollywood by all means, mainly because it's so dense; there is simply no air in the script, and little explanat... Read more