Precious; ummmm???

My hesitation to run out and see movies these days works like clairvoyance.  Almost two hours of my life gone that I can't reclaim.  I won't say the movie was a complete bust, but an hour and forty nine minutes of what?  This movie offers nothing enlightning.  Sadly, hundreds of thousands or children if not millions are living in horrible incestuous and abusive situations such as the character Precious.  But, the movie doesn't really offer us any real insight into anything, its like the day and the life of an abused child.  Sure, Precious reigns in a sort of victory, since by the time the movie ends she has moved from reading on a second grade level to a seventh grade level.  Oh, and she is able to resist the intrusion of her self loathing mother by the movie's end.  Lee Daniels was praised on one blog as a "master" of weaving in images and music.  I was less than impressed.  Black people have so many many stories to tell that Oprah and Tyler Perry should have put money and backing into.  Isn't Danny Glover attempting to make a movie about Toussaint L'Overture?   But, they continue to choose to show the lowest denominantion of Black society.  Save yourself the two hours and watch Queen Ifrica's short film.  It says the same thing, sounds waaaay better than what Lee Daniels put together and won't make you sit through nearly two hours to come to the same conclusion.  In fact, the child molester in this video is at least arrested for his offenses.