eric262003 Precious' life has not been all that compromising. She turns away from other people out fear, not misanthropy. She is quite introverted with people in her lives. She's not very strong in terms of literacy, To see she walks around with this pain surrounding her would be the ultimate understatement. In addition, she she has a child due to rape, she's morbidly obese, her clothes don't fit through the bulk that she carries. Going to school is like walking into a snake-pit in which the venom inflicted upon her stems from the verbal abuse drawn from her peers. If the poison injected from her classmates was hard to bear, home isn't any better, in fact it's a lot worst. Her mother who has given up on home seems to take the leasure of making Precious' living a real nightmare. Precious was badly raped by her own father, but by contrary, her mother isn't ticked off by her bastard husband, she blames her daughter for allegedly "stealing " him. Like a hard candy with a creamy centre, "Precious" might make you very uncomfortable while watching it, but underneath every hardship, there is one element that saves this film from perpetual lament., the message that if we work hard enough, we can pull through all obstacles in our way. Though we want Precious to pull through in the end, the signal of hope comes from the two women in her lives who can provide for her the quest for her to strive through and become a better,more confident person who is in desperate need to be rectified."Precious" is a truly great American film that reflects issues that sparks realism in every dark corner backed by characters that are both easy to grasp at because these are the same people we've experienced in our lives before. Their names and physical identity might be different, but can be easy to relate to. Even by scrounging through the rough patches this movie endures, at the end it turns out to have an underrated moment of feel-good vibrations that will linger on even as the end credits roll. Gabourey Sidibe in her debut film isn't just acting this role as Precious, she's actually living the character.Sidibe really gives everything we need to now about this heartbroken soul through heart,soul and heartbreak. It's hard being an outcast, and Sidibe was just flawless. Sidibe isn't alone in this painful journey. Mo'Nique in an Oscar-winning performance was spot-on as a cruel, chain-smoking loveless mother who treats Precious like a free servant while oblivious to many years of hardcore abuse. Paula Patton was breath-taking as Ms. Rain, an instructor who could see a bright light masquerading within the inner reaches of Precious' mind. In a surprise turn, singer Mariah Carey is also very good as social worker Ms. Weiss.Sure it may have cynical overtones within Geoffrey Fetcher's script, reflecting back in the old days of Hollywood as performers had to play off character roles. Under the helm of Lee Daniels, the film lacked in star quality to give the atmosphere a more real look without the glitz and glamour. By way of reverse, Daniels demanded his cast to act and to capture the emotions and hardships they had to endure and everything had to look ad feel as real as possible. It worked as he did wonder when he produced "Monster's Ball" and led Halle Berry to perform with a emotional grip which led her to an Academy Award. His method must have a lingering impact on his stars.Carey and Patton can provide great depth to their performances which are equally on the same length as Sidibe's role. After all, why would an instructor and a social worker go through tumultuous lengths to save this fat, social outcast and to show her she's special and that her future is right.? My guess is they've seen it all and there are a myriad of other people walking in the same direction as Precious.Though she may hit viewers in the wrong direction with her staggering verbal quips towards her daughter, it's wrong to classify Mary as an evil person, her venomous cruelty stems from her self-anger to which she lays upon her daughter. Mo'Nique is quite convincing in her role.Though naysayers might have the negative belief that this performance could be manipulative, Sidibe embodies the duration of the move to yearn for our sympathy. Her work in her debut is very curious in that is shows that her fewer words and actions can generate in ways that tug at the strings of the heart. Her role is so natural you hardly know she's even acting.Though she's a decade older than the role she plays, you still could find it hard to believe. She never actually lived the hardship of Precious, but Sidibe has given this character a lease of life's lessons and that we learn about her and the way to make us understand more about what it's like to be human an that we're all different, but we are all the same as we must endure life day to day through the good and the bad. After the film ends we must all give Precious a big hug.

cinamalover Precious is one of those movies that is so concerned with making a big political statement that it forgets to be a good movie. Everything in the execution department with this film screams incompatancy. There were moments when watching were I was genuinely confused as to why they did what they did. Honestly I am stunned by how people like this film. 3/10

Burt Dude, this is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. I laughed my wiener off in the theater, when she got that ashtray in the head and fell over like a sack of potatoes. And that retarded inbreed child named MONGO - who comes up with that stuff XD. And the way she walks around looking like a giant bloated puffer fish got me every time. Hahahaha I almost pee myself just thinking about it. I give the sex scene in the beginning a nine out of eleven, as it got me a little hard but not quite enough to jerk off to. Oh yeah, and then there was the moment when she ate those chicken wings. I almost puked in mouth, it was so discussing, and then I almost choked in my own puke cause I was laughing so hard. And the way the the black mother was talking about welfare all the time was pretty realistic. Anyways I can't quite fill the ten line so I gonna list out the best performances in the movie: The mother, a jerk who was quite believable, also she has quite an arm the way she tosses stuff after that fat kid. The black thugs, the ones who pushed the fat is over the street. They looked like someone you didn't want to mess with. That white kid in the dream, probably actor of the year as he was able to kiss that fat kid, without questioning his entire acting career and not blow his brains out afterwards.

Antonio Kowatsch I have seen many movies but this is easily one of the most stereotypical movies I've ever seen. The protagonist happens to be a morbidly obese dark skinned woman that loves stealing fried chicken (I kid you not). She's also illiterate and engages in an incestuous relationship with her father who ends up knocking her up with two kids, one of which has the Down Syndrome. Her mother is extremely abusive towards her (both mentally and physically) and her disabled child. All she cares about is her welfare check... go figure. Throughout the whole movie I felt like I was watching one of Tommy Sotomayor's Youtube videos (they usually address black stereotypes in the most satirical fashion). To top it all off the only "smart" characters were light skinned (the teacher and Dr. Weiss), all of the dark skinned characters were for lack of a better word one-dimensional and dull. I really don't know why so many people tend to think that this movie is "inspirational" or "empowering". As someone who's actually watched the movie I can assure you it's neither. The movie ends with the protagonist finding out that she contracted AIDS from her father. What an inspiration...On a personal side note I'd like to criticize the sloppy camera work at the end of the movie. During the entire last conversation with Dr. Weiss the camera was shaky (not to mention the completely random and uncalled for instances where the cameraman kept zooming in and out of the picture). If you're not used to it you might get motion sickness. The acting was top-notch but the story was rather weak/predictable.