Okay, so to be entirely honest, I definitely thought that I wouldn't like the movie Precious. I figured it out (before watching of course) to be this movie about self pity and mutilation, bullying and all those other cruel things in life. Although it was technically about that stuff, that is not what the movie was. This movie was a story, a story of hardship and struggle with self worth and the views of others. This movie was about abuse, sexual and mental, and the results that come with them. Precious faced way too many difficulties for such a young girl, and basically everything that happened to her were forces that she could not control without support. She had no support, until she decided to make a change and go to a school that was focused on her success, not just the words in a text book.
This movie involved her journey into understanding how to achieve goals in ones life, and to turn ones disadvantages into advantages. Precious learned how to read and write, how to express herself, and create her own reality, rather than just the scenarios she created in her head when the people who were supposed to support and guide her tore her down. Precious was a revolutionary movie, a revealing movie, and I don't think that it could have been projected any better. And I'd like to give Gabourey Sidibe hella props for playing this role so exceptionally. She gave it her all and conveyed the messages like no other could.
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