For those precious

Arnold 2022-09-15 19:46:14



In fact, I shouldn't have chosen a rainy afternoon to watch this movie, but the orange-yellow contrast of black, white and gray on the poster forced me to open the video.

The rape scene at the beginning of the film has become very visually impactful under the bizarre editing of lee daniels. Just a few seconds of the scene actually made me, a veteran of the battle, red eyes.

I especially love the director's use of the phantom lens in the film.

precious likes to throw herself into a dream world after being hit hard. When she was pushed down by gangsters on the street, when she was forced to eat by her mother. Also, when she was announced to have ez. Escape from reality in one's own imagination is something almost everyone does. It's like I sometimes tell myself I don't have to take the exam as long as I don't get up. For me, from my imagination, I still face a peaceful and comfortable life. But for her, after a few seconds of short-lived sweet dreams, it was a huge and oppressive dark reality. The more intense the pain in reality, the more dazzling the flamboyance in fantasy.
The phantom that saddens me the most is when she dresses up in front of the mirror on the first day of her elective school. What she saw in the mirror was a blond and slender white beauty; outside the mirror, she was still the bloated and inferior self.

I've always known that speaking is more painful than experiencing. When precious was going through everything, the director either used a black screen to cover up her pain, or turned the camera to her gorgeous dream world. But when she told Ryan about her illness, Lee daniels made the audience face her pain. Let her keep asking "Who will love me, who will love me" in front of the camera. Just like her mother at the end of the film.

Although she still has no job in the end, infected with Aiz, and has two children. But I still want to classify precious as an inspirational movie. Because she finally knew that someone loved her and was able to stand up and leave the mother who represented darkness. At least, she has herself - as if she stood in front of the mirror downstairs in the social security and saw that she was no longer with blond hair and snow-white skin, but she was still beautiful.

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Precious quotes

  • Clareece 'Precious' Jones: The other day, I cried. But you know what? Fuck that day. That's why God, or whoever, makes other days.

  • Mary: Precious! PRECIOUS! PRECIOUS! Get down here, bitch! You brought that white bitch up in my house? You wrong to bring that bitch up in here!

    Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I ain't bring her in here.

    Mary: Well, why the fuck did she ring my buzzer? I can't here you, Precious. Since you got so much mothafuckin' mouth and you gon' bring a bitch up in my house... why did that bitch ring my goddamn buzzer?

    Clareece 'Precious' Jones: I ain't tell her to come here!

    Mary: See, I think right now you think you becomin' a grown woman. 'Cause that shit you pulled in the kitchen... I shoulda fucked you up. But I let you walk away. And I let you get yourself together. But, bitch, I'mma let you know, don't you ever pull that shit again. That'll be your last mothafuckin' day stayin here. I promise you that. You gon' send a white bitch to my mothafuckin' buzzer? Talkin' 'bout some higher education? You're a dummy, bitch! You will never know shit! Don't nobody want you, don't nobody need you! You done fucked around and fucked my mothafuckin' man? And had two mothafuckin' children? And one of 'ems a goddamn animal, runnin' 'round lookin' crazy as a mothafucka? Bitch, you know what? See, I think you... I think you tryin' me. I think you tryin' to fuck with me. You fuckin' with my money... and you gon' stand up there and look at me like you a mothafuckin' woman? I'mma show you what real women do, bitch. See, you don't know what real mothafuckin' women do. Real mothafuckin' women sacrafice! I shoulda aborter your mothafuckin' ass! 'Cause you ain't shit! I knew it when the doctor put you in my goddamn hand you wasn't a goddamn thing! You wear that smirk on your face, bitch? Get outta...!

    [throws an object at Precious]

    Mary: Now smile about that! Smile about that, you fat bi...

    [Precious kicks the object back at Mary]

    Mary: I'mma kill you, bitch!

    [Mary chases Precious up the stairs]

    Mary: Fuck!