Precious Movie Essay

The movie precious, is about a 16-year-old girl who is still in junior high named Clarice Precious Jones. Precious lives in Harlem and at first, seems like a normal teenager who wishes she was skinny, wealthy, and famous. Her school finds out she's pregnant with her second child and she's expelled and sent to an alternative school. Early on in the movie, it's clear that her mother is very abusive and her father is the father of both her children, essentially her rapist. The sad part is, that it's a secret that only she her mother and father know up to this point. The school knows there's something going on at home but Precious refuses to tell them what it is. Her mother has kept precious from telling anyone; her only concern is that her welfare money continues. Precious’s first child has downs syndrome, her mother hates the child, and lies that she lives with them when the child lives with precious’s grandmother. Precious is constantly abused and berated by her mother every moment she's with her. After she starts attending the alternative school her self-image starts to change, she's realizes she isn't stupid and the school becomes her first support system. …show more content…
After precious is released from the hospital, she and the baby return home where her mother assaults her and for the first time she fights back. This is her crisis moment when her mother throws her baby on the chair, hits precious and then tries to drops a TV on her and the baby as they are going down the staircase. Precious breaks into the alternative school and is found by the admin staff and her teacher. She ends up staying with her teacher until they can find her lodging and starts to realize what having a family is really