Plot: Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. Trailer:
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire comments / review
Date: 2009-12-20 17:41:43
User: PostFilm
The title character in Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire has such a crushing string of misfortunes that a typical Thomas Hardy character seems lucky.
Claireece Precious Jones (astonishing newcomer Gabourey Sidibe) is an overweight 16-year-old who has given birth to a child with Down’s Syndrome and is about to deliver another. She’s been shuffled through the New York school system and can barely read or write. With a life this bleak, it’s no wonder she spends most of her time fantasizing about being some type of star.
While these setbacks might be overwhelming for some, young Precious has even less to be thankful for. Her mother Mary (terrifyingly played by moonlighting comic Mo’Nique) lives off of welfare and subjects her daughter and even her granddaughter to verbal and physical abuse. Because Mary treats her cat with more affection than she gives to her own daughter, one wonders how Precious acquired her middle name.
As for her father, he’s almost never in. That’s actually a good thing. The only things he’s given Precious are her two children.
Just one of these woes could make a compelling movie, but screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher and director Lee Daniels manage to pile on the misfortunes without making the film maudlin or dour. They have an uncanny instinct for how far to develop the story’s dark nature without sacrificing credibility.
Merely getting through the day seems like a major achievement for Precious, so it’s easy to revel in any sign of hope that comes along. Precious is assigned to a special school where her instructor Blue Rain (Paula Patton) has the right amount of firmness and warmth to make the previously unmotivated student learn. She also gets some help from a supportive social worker (Mariah Carey).
Daniels, who previously worked as a producer on films like Monsters Ball, has an unerring eye for casting. In addition to filling the cast with convincing rookies, he also recruits established performers and moonlighting musicians. None of these stars take the viewer out of the film because they are almost unrecognizable.
Carey, for example, looks and dresses differently than she does on stage, and even diehard fans might have trouble spotting her. She blends with the other drones in the cubicles. Similarly, talk show host Sherri Shepard and rocker Lenny Kravitz look and act like garden-variety New Yorkers. That’s essential for a movie about poor residents of the Big Apple.
Despite the talent around her, Mo’Nique easily steals the show. Mary could have been simply a monster, but Mo’Nique adds some fascinating shadings. When social workers come around, she instantly becomes sweet and ingratiating. She can make her visitors believe she’s eagerly searching for a job and diligently taking care of her family when she actually spends her days doing nothing but watching TV. She can’t even bother to leave the apartment to buy lottery tickets, cigarettes or food. She outsources those tasks to her beleaguered daughter. But in other moments Mo’Nique almost makes viewers fell sorry for what may be the worst screen mother since Shelly Winters in A Patch of Blue.
With situations as dire as the ones depicted in the film, Daniels thankfully never promises a clean or happy outcome. Curiously, Precious is uplifting simply because living through these ordeals is an achievement in itself.
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