Yesterday I saw the movie ‘Precious’, and spent a highly disturbing hour and a half squirming in my seat, covering my eyes, flicking away tears and wishing I was somewhere else. The movie almost hurts to watch and the story told by Claireece Precious Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) presents the dark and darker side of her family life, relieved only by contrasting images of this desperately unhappy girl escaping reality the only way she knows how, by day-dreaming about a seemingly impossible new life as a person who is loved, cherished and wanted.
Thankfully, just when the audience is thinking that it can’t get any more harrowing, the movie ends, though on a slightly depressing note even though there is just the faintest glimmer of hope for Precious and her children. The acting is Oscar winning and the gorgeous Gabourey can now live in real life, those dreams that Precious once had for herself.
The movie is dedicated by the director, Lee Daniels to ‘Precious Girls Everywhere’ and brings attention to the sad and inescapable plight of many young women like Precious who are living anonymously in suburbs just like our own. God Almighty - you just want to help them!!