My Movie Review "Precious"

I went to see the movie "Precious" this friday, which is about an illiterate teen who enters an alternative program ."Precious" is based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, it takes place in Harlem, New York, of a 16 year old girl named Claireece “Precious” Jones. "Precious" is raped by her father at the age of three, gives birth to his baby at twelve and she names her baby girl Mongo. She is faced with changing school when her school finds out that she is pregnant again. Her school told her about an alternative school called the "each one, teach one", so that's where she ends up going. "Precious" life changes at this point in the movie.

She starts to write out her problems she is dealing with in her journal , when her teacher asks the class to write what on their minds. Writing out her problems in her journal, and her Ms. Rain responding back to her makes her understand what was being done to her by her father and mother (Monique) was wrong. From this point "Precious" puts up a fight and not allows her mother to deprive her from an education, and manipulate her. When "Precious" mother realizes that she no longer has power over her, she tries in every way to show the social worker (Mariah Carey) she is doing her best for "Precious".

By the ending of the movie "Precious" works hard and becomes intelligent than she ever was. Have her last baby boy Abdul and love and protects him in a way, which she never had. She moves out of her mother's place and finds a place of her own. From the ending of the movie she continues towards her destiny.