Analyse af filmen 'Precious'

1. The movie “precious” is based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, and it’s about Clarice "Precious" Jones, a sixteen year old with big dreams--she wants to be on magazine covers and in videos on R&B and BET. But in reality Precious got big difficulties--she's sixteen, still in junior high and pregnant with her father’s child, for the second time. She can't read or write, and gets bullied by her classmates because of her size. At home things are even worse as her mother Marry constantly belittles and physically abuses her. Life seems to be pretty grim. But then Precious is invited to a school to help get her GED, and she feels things could start to look up.

2. When Precious gets an offered to enter an alternative school, she recognizes as an opportunity to better herself, but her mother Mary discourages it and forces Precious to apply for welfare, (it clearly shows that their social class is the low). The unenviable mother-daughter relationship is the crux of the film, and it is here the film gives an unblinking account of monstrous physical and psychological abuse that explains the sharp contrast between Precious' inner and outer lives. On the outside, she is a forlorn yet formidable presence with a face so full that she can't express emotion without a great deal of effort. On the inside, she is loved and admired unconditionally. The two slowly come together at Precious' new school where she finds acceptance and redemption through a dedicated teacher, who must get through to a classroom full of girls all disadvantaged in their own ways.