Precious

Well, I am back with my review for Precious. I told you that I would be back doing my Best Picture reviews, and I’m keeping that promise to you guys. I wasn’t sure which of the Best Picture films I wanted to do next, so I picked at random, and Precious was what got chosen.

So, I watched the Best Picture nominee Precious tonight and you know, I’m not sure what to think. This film was really good, but it was really sad at the same time. I guess it truly set out to
achieve this purpose and it hit it dead on.

Precious is about this young sixteen year old girl named Precious who is impregnated by her father twice and she is kicked out of school. Her father hates her and her mother despises her and beats on her all the time. Precious can’t win for losing.

The principal of her previous school decides though to send her to a special school to prepare to get her GED. Her mother is pissed about this and beats on her for it, but she goes anyway. She then meets Ms. Rain who teaches her to read and write. The rest is a downhill slope of just...awfulness. Not awfulness in quality, but awfulness in the sense of what happens if awful.

You know, I don’t really want to give too much of this movie away because it is definitely one I would suggest seeing, but I would suggest popping a Disney movie in immediately after because this movie depressed me. You felt so bad for all that Precious goes through, and just when you think it’s as worse as it can get, it gets even worse. Then it gets even worse. It’s like watching two hours of people dump on this poor young girl.

Like I said, I would definitely suggest seeing this film. It was good, yes, but it goes in my list of movies that I will watch once, then never again, such as Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River. Far too depressing. The only one you route for in this movie is Precious, but you begin to lose hope and after it ends, you do wonder what’s going to happen next. Obviously, I won’t give away the ending.

Do I think it should be up with the other Best Picture nominations? I honestly can’t say, I just don’t know. I would say yes, but when I want to say yes, I think of all the reasons why I should say no, and vice versa. I would suggest seeing this as a rental. Don’t go out and spend $20 on a DVD. Netflix to the rescue!

So, overall it’s very hard for me to rate this movie. Like I said earlier, it set out with a purpose, and it achieved the purpose quite well, but I don’t know if I enjoyed it. So, for now, I think it will get 6 out of 10.

The Blind Side is next folks. Eight down, two to go.