It sure did me. Going away from the subject material, there is a lot to like in the way the making of the film was handled. This is not the sort of story you watch for enjoyment. Precious is kicked out of her normal school for being pregnant and finds refuge in an alternative school and a teacher that pushes her to learn and to change her life. If it isn't bad enough that a 16 year old girl would have two kids they both are the result of her father raping her. She also is pregnant with her second child. Precious lives in poverty with a mother that is physically and emotionally abusive. Precious(the film) tells the story of Precious(the 16 year old girl). Monique obviously won an Oscar for her superb performance, but there were a few others that were nearly as good. Where the film takes off is with the performances. It could have been handled in a more over the top way, but Daniels does a perfect job in balancing everything out.
Lee Daniels directs it with incredible subtlety when you look at the material. The film is painful to watch, as it is relentless in telling the story of Precious. What it will do is make you feel compassion for a character that has gone through terrible things, yet tries to better her life and make changes, not just for herself, but for her kids also. The story of Precious Jones is not one that will make you happy. This is a film of excruciating heartache and depression. Precious."įeel good entertainment Precious is not. call me an animal! Make me feel worthless! Make me sick! Sapphire’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe.Clareece 'Precious' Jones: Please don't lie to me, Ms. Sapphire's poetry has appeared in the following anthologies: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, and New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent. In February of 2007 Arizona State University presented PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire. Sapphire’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Spin, and Bomb. Push was adapted into the Oscar winning film, Precious. Named by the Village Voice and Time Out New York as one of the top ten books of 1996, Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction. Push: A novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. Sapphire is the author of Push, American Dreams, The Kid, and Black Wings & Blind Angels.
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