Once every so often a film comes along that will change your perception of things. In one way or another it will give you elements to better yourself. "Precious" is such a film. Lee Daniels, the director, takes things to extremes, so much so that this could easily be an opera. When you think that things couldn't be worse, you discover that they have been worse already for a long time. Precious is played by a sort of miracle. Her name is Gubarey Sidibe and I don't even know how to pronounce it but I will certainly take her in my mind from now on, always. When she stands listening to the rantings of her mother, I surprised myself by feeling tears running down my face. The mother, a standout, once in a lifetime performance by Mo'Nique, is also a character we've never seen before. Brutal, unsentimental and truthful to the core. I saw the film over three weeks ago and I can't shake it out of my system, if that in itself is not a sign of greatness I don't know what is.

This movie for me did not meet all the hype surrounding it. Although it is a very sad and gritty story it was really slow and i just couldn’t at all get in to it. Some of the scenes actually made me feel ill for example when the young girl scoffs a box of chicken drum sticks and has all around her mouth and then vomits. What relevance does that actually have in the grand scale of this girls brutal story? Personally not for me