Precious Movie

Lourie Lumb
November 3, 2010
Precious Movie
    Watching the movie I learned that precious always is dreaming of a lite skin boyfriend, wants to be on magazine covers and wants to start in a BTV video.   Precious is the story of a 16-year-old girl struggling in a bleak and brutal world?   She is an overweight, African-American teen in Harlem. She’s about to give birth to her second child and is accepted into an alternative school where a teacher helps her find a new path in her life. In the beginning her mother is watching television and as she walks into the house after coming home from school her mother’s voice starts to get loud. While precious is doing dishes her mother throws something at the back of her head and demands her to cook something to eat because she was hungry. She later starts arguing with her, swearing at her, calls her dumb, worthless and tells her that no one is going to help her and that she needs to go to welfare after the principal shows up at her house uninvited. The next day precious went to the place where her principal told her to go. When she arrives they start asking her questions, and then test her to see where she belonged and what class she had to take. Precious has been at this school for a couple of days now and she starts to open up by writing everything in her journal. One day precious was hungry; she walked into a restaurant and asked for a basket of ten piece chicken then runs off with it without paying. She later then throws it all up in a trash barrel at school. Her first child from her father which is a girl has Down syndrome, and stays at the great grandmother’s house. She is only brought to the house when the social worker visits. Precious was pregnant by her father again for a second time. Both of these pregnancies she never went to see a doctor. While she is at the alternative school classmates asks her when she is due but she tells them that she does not know because she never been to the doctors. While precious is...