25. Precious

Today i finished watching precious.

Like Sonja and other bloggers mentioned , it has lots of similarities with the bluest eye. In fact in this post i always wrote first Pecola and than i turned it to Precious :). Also movie has got its own style like the bluest eye have its own style. In the movie there are lots of trick for describing the story well. For example, in some scenes especially when Precious has hit to her head. In other words when she feel pain, she remembers the worst experience(and the most painfull) of her. This experience is as you wish , her father's rape to her.

Other is in some scenes frame is shivering like when Mrs. Rain or other women who is detecting for social help listening Precous's life and her drama. I think they chosed this method because they wanted to show this people couldn't understand this pain and it is very shocking to them.

And realize that, in the public sphere they call Precious's full name as Clareece P. Jones. But while Precious writing her name she writes it as C. Precious Jones. She like Precious more than Clareece. I think it is because she wants to feel herself precious.

And Precious's mother always play numbers. Maybe she is searching for another start, another life and the key is money. Money can solve problems of her life. But she never try to solve the problems by herself and being selfish.

And the most effective symbol was Mrs. Rain for me. I don't know why that they called her surname rain? I think it can be Mrs. Sunny ? How great person she is? I adored her during the movie.

Another thing i want to mention is, it was a coming of age movie. Precious was very very very VERY strong girl. She didn't run away from life. She saw other people's helps and efforts for her and never gave up. If i were Precious , i don't know, i would given up very early. Precious completed her coming of age very succesfully. And other character Precious's mother, couldn't do it.

Precious character is more optimistic version of Pecola. Precious is obviously more strong than Pecola. However she is more lucky. Because she has a teacher like Mrs. Rain.

On the other hand, movie has got similarities with The Color Purple. Celie was also being raped by her father and her hero like Precious's Mrs. Rain , was Shug Avery. And during the movie we were always hearing Celie's talking with herself and god. Also Precious is always doing that during the movie. I think it is method for describing us how they are handling with bad situations and how they are being impressed.

And here are my favorite quotes from movie,

Mrs Rain:
"The biggest responsibility of you is being yourself."

Precious:
After learning that Mrs. Rain is lesbian.
"My mama said that homosexuals are bad. But people who raped&beat me was not homosexual."

Precious:
Some folks has a lot of things around them that shines for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels. And in that tunnel, the only light they had, was inside of them. And then long after they escape that tunnel, they sitll be shining for everybody else.

Picture retrived from, 24 May,2010: http://sisterrose.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/precious-movie1.jpg