Comments on: Precious (2009)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:57:06 +0000

Wow, I am so glad that I’m not the only person who didn’t go gaga over this movie. Jake perfectly sums up and explains all the flaws that ruined the movie for me.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:47:08 +0000

P.S.
Aiden, will you edit my previous comment and put SPOILER tags on it.
And then you can delete this comment if you so desire.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:45:58 +0000

It’s not a fairy tale, it’s not happily ever after.

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Precious has AIDS and is probably going to die from it – back then, the disease was basically a death sentence. That’s not happy.

She has hope, and she has self-confidence. I found that final shot when Precious looks back into the mirror and sees herself rather than a skinny white girl particularly moving.

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By: Mad Hatter

Mad Hatter — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:19:33 +0000

Finally got to see this last night, and I couldn’t agree with you more – this is movie is nothing short of an eloquent punch in the gut. I was actually surprised how much I enjoyed it, given the amount of hype that had built up by the time I finally got to see it.

I think what I liked most from it was how the story ended. I don’t want to give too much away here but there must have been a temptation to tie things off neatly. The fact that the train pulls away from us after we’ve reached our stop is a bold move, and is one of the biggest factors that set the film apart for me.

Great review!

By: Aiden R

Aiden R — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:22:03 +0000

Yeah, this one was pretty freakin’ heavy, but I still dug it. Shook me up, I like when movies do that. I hear ya though.

By: Jake Cole

Jake Cole — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:34:10 +0000

I just don’t see the point of this movie, to be honest. Granted, it’s in a no-win situation: as it stands, its reserved ending is too little in the face of the atrocities Precious suffers, but if it ended on a truly happy note we’d be decrying how Hollywood turned it into a fairy tale. But that’s just it: it is a fairy tale. Precious is not a realistic depiction of neglected and abused urban black youth but a composite of all the horror stories the author came across. That doesn’t make her a symbol of a social hell but a punching bag to be tortured for the filmmakers’ amusement. Daniels’ direction is horrific, lingering over the abuses to manipulate the audience into sympathy for a character who plays like every fairy tale princess — what is the apartment and its exaggerated height in the building but the tallest room in the tallest tower? — who suffers nothing but indignities and horrors until the very end. Precious is a fairy tale that removes the happy ending for something downbeat and then passes it off as “real.”

I will say though that I hope both Sidibe and Mo’Nique get noms (Mo’Nique has noooo competition at all) and that the rest of the cast was equally fantastic. But, for me, this was the most wrong-headed, self-absorbed message movie since Paul Haggis’ Crash.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:35:15 +0000

Ok… The movie was well written. The acting was excellent. But I prefer not to have to take prozac before and after I see a movie. This was the most depressing two hours I ever spent and unless you had a stiff drink or a Rx for anti-depressants it just shouldn’t be seen. I hated this movie.

By: Branden

Branden — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:57:40 +0000

I saw this film yesterday. Such a good film, it’s not great, but a solid movie overall.

By: Fitz

Fitz — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:10:11 +0000

Great review! I really hope the backlash campaign doesn’t lead people away from watching this film.