Precious

Over Thanksgiving break my mom and I had anticipated seeing the movie "Precious" staring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey. I loved the movie. After reading "Push" which is what the movie is based on (almost word-for-word) I was hooked. Although the book is extremely graphic and written from Precious' (Sidibe's) point of view (broken English, very dramatic dialogue) you get the gist of the life of a teenage girl stuck in a world of abuse, incest, cultural, and economic struggles. In the movie, Precious' life is played out in a way that shows the very lowest of the low as far as people and ethics go. I really don't want to give away the movie because I think that everyone should see it. But the most profound moment for me in the movie (or at least one of the most profound moments) was when Precious was doing her hair in the mirror and saw a white female looking back at her. This showed how deluted her sense of beauty was. This really hit home to me because I remember as a child rapping a scarf around my head and letting it hang because I wanted my hair to flow like a white girl's hair. My mother did the same when she was young. It's not that I wanted to be white.. it's that...the hair type was what was considered to be beautiful.