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9. What happens to Precious’ self-image over the course of the story?

Thanks so much for this, Fallon. I saw the movie last night and I agree wholeheartedly with what you’re getting at here. There were so many ways in which this film was an assault on not only black women, but black motherhood specifically (how befitting of a movie set in the 1980s Reagan era). Granted, if I recall correctly, Mary doesn’t have a lot of redeemable moments in the book either. But in the book, the culprit is much more complex and certainly includes the larger social context and system in which Precious heroically pushes through in order to make a better life for herself. In the movie, it seems that Precious doesn’t push through the system; she is saved by it…and all of its light-skinned purveyors who help her to flee from her arbitrarily monstrous mother.

Fallon, I always enjoy reading your thoughts on anything. I agree totally with you on why film makers should not present one-dimensional characters. Period. (Even the villains in superhero movies have layers and archs (The Joker, The Green Goblin, etc.) But I too have decided to wait for this one to hit Netflix. I read the book as a teenager and compared to the film reviews I have read, Mr. Perry did not disappoint my expectations of him. The way in which I am most disappointed is in how Mary is portrayed in the film. She is no angel in the book but it is clear that she loves her daugther. As all films based on books do, Precious changes the plot details of Push. However one plot change in particular is akin to the Mary character. In Push, Precious is raped by a peer, not her father, and she never tells anyone. By changing the rapist to her father and adding Mary’s condoning of the act, Mary is cast as the purely evil antagonist. Leave it to Perry to add more black-mama-drama than necessary.

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Fallon, I have resisted watching Precious, because of my pre-conceived ideas of what it might be…after years of unforgiving, unflattering, dehumnaizing depictions of Black women and mothers, I didn’t have the desire to see more of the same (this is the impression I got from the movie trailers). I’ve been told that I am mistaken about my preconceptions, and have not given this film a chance.

Yeah, this is why I wrote the blog because of what people will pull from this movie and all movies that feature single black mother who receive assistance from the gov. as women who are inherently bad and women who do not love their children.I am glad you told your daughters why images like this of black women exist because they do many things in the real world like legitimizes punitive actions against black mothers on welfare. And please, do not apologize for the length of your comment. I enjoyed reading it. And I will definitely stop by you blog too.

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Of course, at the end of the movie you get a small glimpse of humanity. It is seen in the scene where she is talking with the social worker. What I read between the lines from potential red gumball moment was that she was stuck between a man and a baby girl, figuratively and literally. And she had to make a choice. For many women, this dilemma is not unique especially since we live in a patriarchal heterosexist society that privileges the lives, experiences, and beliefs of men and women who abide by those experiences and beliefs. And of course, once we add into the mix issues of race and class, the choices women make are not always June Cleaver and Claire Huxtable types of choices. And this is not to say that June Cleaver and Claire Huxtable choices are the right choices either. All that I am saying is that I want people to see , a black mother, in context and not as some new age Terminator seeking only to annihilate her black daughter, Precious.

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Yes, I know that the purpose of the movie was to tell the daughter’s story. But, as I watched silence, physically abuse, and sexually sodomize her daughter, all I could think about as tears flowed was story and how she became who she was. What were the political, social, cultural, and economic forces “intersecting” to shape how she saw her daughter and how she saw herself? is not one dimensional in the sense of simply being organically evil. But, Lee Daniels—as he also did in Monster’s Ball—did a good, downright extraordinary job of painting her as such, ignoring the many structural and cultural forces at play during the 70s and 80s that made the image of the black welfare queen palatable and punitive.

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Wow. I was unwillingly dragged to this film by one of my cousins and I have to say that I wished I had seen Sherlock Holmes instead. This movie is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. I became more and more uncomfortable as the film progressed and I could everyone else crying but my eyes stayed dry. I was too disturbed to cry. There was no hope. And I was sitting there I asked myself, "Are these the only movies they will ever make about black people?" Really? I mean can we just be portrayed as normal people? I mean I grew up in a happy, middle class family. The way movies tell it, you would barely know that black families like that exist. Some stories need to be told but I don't think Precious was one of them. I personally think that it was disturbing just for the sake of being disturbing if you know what I mean. I am dissappointed that Oprah endorsed this film. Gotta love Oprah but I do not agree with her on this one.