There are different problems in this movie the first problem is a teenager get abused by her mother and the people around her, she also …show more content…
Precious and her mother lives on welfare and the mother force her family to pretend that the first child of precious is living with them and not with her grandmother so that she can get more from the welfare. Basically precious is living a miserable life that she really want to change, she imagine that she have the perfect life where she is a famous and have her perfect boyfriend that has a nice hair. The thing that hurt the most is that when precious imagine the perfect life but when she get beck to reality it’s so painful that it can’t be watched. Even with the misery that she is living in, precious have an ambitions that she can be better by studying and get her high school diploma, she also think that she can be a good mother for her two children unlike her mother. The thing is that while she is suffering and have no reason to live she is doing things in order to find reasons for her to keep living her life, she’s also trying to safe herself by entering the …show more content…
Also the bad parenting such as Mary (precious mother) leads to bad habits, for example when the mother forced precious to eat the food although precious clearly rejected by saying that she is not