Extra Credit Movie Review "Precious"

I wasn't sure what to expect from the movie Precious. After seeing the previews on television, I wasn interested in seeing it but never got the time. I appreciated the African American Cultural Center for showing it, and even more that it was an extra credit oppurtunity for English 202.

In my opinion, the genre that the movie fits into is drama. I'm not too sure what the critics would say, but this movie was very emotional. It was about an African American teenager that was a victim of sexual abuse ( committed by her mother's boyfriend and her biological father). As a result of the ongoing sexual abuse, that began as she was an infant, Precious became pregnant with not only one child, but two. She lived in an abusive home, with her mother and her daughter. Her mother lived in envy of her daugter, because her boyfriend had given her daughter two children, one more than he had given her. She was also jealous because her daughter had chosen to go to an alternative school for troubled teens, and was mad that she was trying to better herself (something that her mother had never really tried to do.)

Precious ends up leaving her house with the help of many people in her life (friends, a teacher, and a social worker.) Overall Precious was a very good movie that I would consider watching again.