Essay On The Movie Precious

This text is about the author reviewing the famous movie “Precious”, which is directed by Lee Daniels and based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire. This 1-hour-and-50-minute film is about a pregnant Harlem teen named “Precious”, played by Gabourey Sidibe, attempted to escape from her abusive mother Mary, played by Mo’Nique, in order to build a new life together with her babies after being offered to turn her life around. In addition of reviewing the movie and just giving thoughts about the general aspects, she went on talking about the director’s style, each actor’s performance of the main as well as side characters. She described Daniels’ style as “confronting viewers with the most squalid, violent depredations Precious suffers at her mother’s hands” and realistic as Precious cannot face the reality of abusing because she retreated from it by daydreaming her “boyfriend”. So as we can see, instead of lessening the pain, Daniels showed us the full view of Precious’s sad and miserable truth, which is quite unlike many directors of the same era. Although Hornaday did mention about the problems and cliché of the film’s characters like Mary and Precious herself like how precious can withstand the “plague of social ills” without becoming “grostesque” , she said it made up for the actors’ impressive performance to the point

Even so, they do it with a spirited and resilient way, which is true to the meaning of the word “Mettle”. Indeed, life can have many obstacles that we have to come across. It can be money, finance, internal conflict, abuse,…anything that can block us from our path to success. It is better to raise our heads up and fight that problem rather than give up and never stand up again. I personally think there are still people who fight back their hardships and diseases in order to live for a tomorrow and a better