Film Review: Precious
Everyone meet Precious. Precious is fat. Precious is ‘black’ black. Precious lives in abject poverty. She is gets raped by her father. She is abused by her mother. She eats pig’s feet. She has a Down’s baby. She’s pregnant again. She’s only 16. Boys kick her. She has to perform oral sex on mother. She gives birth. Now her mother is trying to kill her. And her baby. Now she’s homeless. Now her father is dead. He died of AIDS. Now Precious has HIV. She’s going to die. Perhaps her baby has HIV? Now Precious is homeless. With a baby. And with HIV. And she’s going to die.
But s’all good cos she goes to a cool school where everyone is cool and good looking and there’s a really beautiful lesbian teacher who loves Precious and all her classmates are cool and suddenly, instantly, inexplicably they are all her best friend and go see her in hospital where Lenny Kravitz is her nurse and he’s cool too they have parties and she hooks up Lenny with some chick and they laugh and Precious has new clothes even though she penniless but that don’t matter cos that’s just one of a million plot-holes and she’s writing the pain away ‘Dead Poets’ style and Mariah Carey is smirking and Oprah is smiling and everything’s gonna be cool…
Y’know what I mean??
Beijos! (Sasha)
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