Lee Daniel’s Precious is a movie centered around Precious Jones, a 16-year-old overweight black girl living in Harlem, New York. The movie begins when she is in public school pregnant with her second child by her father. Because Precious is pregnant, the principle recommends an alternative school for her. At home, Precious is a servant to her mother, Mary, who is physically, emotionally, verbally, and sexually abusing her. Mary constantly tells Precious that she is not good enough and that no one will ever want her. At times of distress, Precious tends to dissociate and fantasize about another life where she is a blonde white girl. She wants to be famous and loved by all. Precious arrives at the alternative school hardly knowing how to read or write. She gets placed in a class of girls with a dedicated teacher, Ms. Rain. Ms. Rain asks each student to write in a journal every day, and she will write back to their letters. This is the first time in the movie when Precious feels very …show more content…
Rain and her classmates, and Mrs. Weiss. This theory believes that an individual will not have the tools to explore other parts of the environment if this person does not have a constant mutual interaction with adults (Addison, 1992). Her mother is constantly talking down to Precious, contributing to Precious 's low self-esteem and unworthiness to be alive. Her father has raped her which has contributed to her feeling worthless and used. Precious believed that love beat her, raped her, made her feel worthless. She has this skewed perception of love because of the abuse she has gone through. Her school system affects Precious 's development by being a stable support system to her. In time, Precious started to believe that she was beautiful and gained empowerment from the people in her school system. Ms. Rain pushed and motivated Precious, really seeing Precious’s potential in life and loving
The story of “Precious” provides an excellent example of how a person can become lost in the system, and also how one can begin to turn things around by utilizing available resources. Precious’s mother, Mary, has been taking advantage of Precious to help her manipulate the system so Mary can continue to receive welfare benefits. Precious ultimately meets with the social worker, Mrs. Weiss, who begins to help her move forward in life. It is my understanding that Precious initially met with Mrs. Weiss for welfare benefits, but this relationship seemed to change as the movie progressed. I was admittedly taken aback by the conditions of the office in which Mrs. Weiss worked, how she interacted with Precious initially,
This book shows the struggles that the main character, Precious Jones, has to go through after she was raped by her father twice. Not only is she raped, but her mother does nothing about it and just wants her to live with what ha...
Survive and Advance is an ESPN 30 for 30 series focusing on the 1983 NCAA Men's Basketball Champion, NC State Wolf Pack. The emphasis of the documentary is on the “Cinderella Run” the team made, navigating its way through a series of close wins, its affect on the team and players as well as Jim Valvano's battle with cancer. The championship run was merely a culmination of factors and circumstances that took place well before the first games were played that season.
Little did the principal know that she would be the saving grace and the start of a new life for Precious and her born and unborn babies. Sadly, in the movie, Precious endures another abusive attack by her mother upon her mother’s knowledge that the principal came by her home to speak with her about Precious’ school performance. Mother was thinking that Precious was misbehaving at school or telling the “white” people about their family business. At the alternative school, Precious is inspired and encouraged by a very caring and passionate teacher, Blu Rain. She also meets many other female peers just like herself in the program.
The movie Precious is a movie about a sixteen year old girl nicknamed Precious. The movie shows her difficult life as she lives with her mother. Precious is a teen mother expecting her second child, who is also her father’s child due to him raping her. She is verbally and physically abused constantly by her mother and lives in a very unhealthy environment overall. She takes care of herself and her mother and is told what to do everyday. In the movie she begins to turn her life around when a teacher has faith in her and she begins to get an education, and learns she is not what her mother thinks she is.
For this assignment, the movie “The Help” was chosen to review and analyze because it presents a story of fighting injustice through diverse ways. The three main characters of the movie are Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a young white woman, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson, two colored maids. Throughout the story, we follow these three women as they are brought together to record colored maids’ stories about their experiences working for the white families of Jackson. The movie explores the social inequalities such as racism and segregation between African Americans and whites during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.
In the movie “ Precious “ by Lee Daniels, Gabourey Sidibe plays a sixteen-year-old, illiterate and overweight girl named Precious, who lives in Harlem, New York. She lives with her mother Mary Jones, who was abusive to her. The abuse and oppression was so traumatic for Precious, she would often dissociate herself from the situation and pretend to be someone else. Losing track of time, her situation and herself was her coping mechanism; throughout the movie it appeared that she would have these dreaming episodes where she would be another person in a much better situation. Precious became pregnant twice from her biological father, who had abandoned the family and infected both she and her mother with the HIV virus.
Some even believed that she was unteachable, and would pass her despite the fact she had not learned. The students disrespected her and made fun of her nearly every day. In this environment, Precious was disabled from learning how to read or write. On top of it all, her school discharged her when the administrative board received word that she was pregnant for the second time. With these circumstances accumulating, Precious believed that she could never learn to be better. On the other hand, after she was discharged from school Precious sought out an alternative form of schooling to better herself and receive an education.
The 2009 film “Precious”, based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, tells the tragic story of sixteen-year-old Claireece Precious Jones; an overweight, illiterate who is now pregnant with her second child. Her life at home is a complete nightmare; her mother, Mary, verbally, emotionally and physically abuses her daily. Her father, Carl, molested her on multiple occasions and impregnated her twice then disappeared. Precious was kicked out of public school and took an offer to attend an alternative school where she meets her inspirational teacher Miss Blu Rain. Precious begins to believe in herself and prepares herself for her future. She becomes engaged in class and learns how to read and write; she was called stupid and dummy all her life and
To begin with, Miss Moore, Sylvia, and the other children are from the “slums”. However, what differentiate Miss Moore and everyone else in the neighborhood is that she has a college education, and speaks Standard English. As a result, Miss Moore plays the role as teacher to the neighborhood children. Most of the children from the neighborhood were poverty stricken and had a ghetto vernacular. Especially, Sylvia, who mouth is atrocious and has a strong animosity towards Miss Moore. For instance,“Miss Moore was her name. The only woman on the block with no first name. And she was black as hell, cept for her feet, which were fish-white and spooky.” Moreover, Miss Moore has high expectations of the children, so she takes them on a trip outside the hood to unveil the real world. Before going on the trip to the toy store Miss Moore tried to explain the value of money to the children. For example, “So we heading down the street and she’s boring us silly about what things cost and what our parents make and how much goes for rent and how money ain’t divided up right in this country.” At first, Sylvia is t...
My boyfriend and my parents have been raving about Secondhand Lions for months, so one day I decided to sit down and see what all of the fuss was about. Much to my surprise, it was one of the funniest, yet heartwarming films that I have ever watched. Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, and Michael Caine are amazing actors and they prove it in this movie. This movie is about young Walter spending the summer with his two uncles while his mother is “taking college classes”. The film has humor, action, and wisdom intertwined throughout it.
.... Precious was finally proud of herself for doing well in school. In addition, her friends, her teacher, and her social worker were recognizing her efforts–these were some of her external esteem needs. Finally, at the very end of the movie, it is arguable that that she was self-actualized, even though this stage is never able to be satisfied because as one grows psychologically there are always new opportunities to continue to grow. However, for the time being, she was happy and free from her mother.
The film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo allows for a woman to be represented outside of what is stereotypical of women in film. This stereotypical role is best described as a woman having to wait for a man to do what is needed to keep the woman safe and that a woman should look feminine and pretty.
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
The movie Frozen was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee based on the story about The Snow Queen written by Hans Christian Anderson. The movie was released November 27th, 2013 and got $1.274 billion in the box office (Frozen). The movie is focuses on two daughters of a royal family in Arendelle, Elsa and Anna. The eldest, Elsa, develops ice powers from a very young age. While playing with her sister, Elsa hurts Anna and the whole family visits the magical Rock Trolls to save Anna. Along with it, her memories of Elsa using her powers are gone and Elsa is forced to keep her powers a secret. They grow up, but Elsa isolates herself from Anna, afraid of hurting Anna or anyone else because she has yet to learn to control her powers. Their parents,