Precious ( Lee Daniels, 2009) is a holder of a quality film in contemporary cinema exigua, who succeeded in earning at the same praise from critics and the public.
Although at first glance we could label it in film and social commitment, the director shamelessly confessed their intentions clear when make a blockbuster movie, even at the expense of a dramatic format on the ability of the human spirit.
Geoffrey's script is based on Fletcher Push , the original novel by African American writer Sapphire , which also plays a small role in the film.
We are not in a film that focuses on a specific disease. As spectators witnessed the harrowing story of Clareece "Precious" Jones (colossal interpretation of the debutante Gabourey Sidibe), a 16 year old girl whose entire life has never enjoyed a moment of happiness: Women of color , obese, born in Harlem deeper and marginal, with the connivance maternal subject to sexual abuse of his father since age 3, raped systematically by his father, an illiterate ...
At just 16 years to load on their stout back with the heavy burden of 2 children who both were his brothers, a girl with Down syndrome and also suffer relentlessly constant brutal humiliation of a mother (Mo'nique ) also the responsibility of all its misfortunes ... A bleak picture ...
Until a decades, obesity was interpreted as a disease opulence. However, statistics show that lower socioeconomic status are most affected by this disease. Obesity is often accompanied by other cruel disease, type 2 diabetes . Even some authors have identified poverty as the direct cause of obesity, with a greater effect than the bad eating habits:
This film seems designed to argue that axiom. The women of the Jones family are poor and obese. Mary Jones, Mother, shows us all the time sitting in front of the TV permanently requiring the care of her daughter Precious. Alcohol, calorie aerated drinks, greasy trotters and lots of fried chicken are a regular part of your diet, abundant and inexpensive food that feed the needy in the supposedly developed world. Physical inactivity, the mother adds another factor that increases its cardiovascular risk : smoking.
Precious is a regular at fast food establishments. In one scene we see her run through the streets with a huge bowl of fried chicken wings.
- rocker Lenny Kravitz plays John nurse who takes care of Precious after her second delivery.
- Mariah Carey is the Miss Weiss, a social worker in charge of the Jones family.
- Finally, the beautiful Paula Patton is Miss Rain, the feisty teacher in charge of alternative education program, even come to house the young outcast when he flees with her small the brutality of the mother's home.
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