Sunday 3 January 2016

Precious - Film (Week 14)

Crew:
Director - Lee Daniels
Writer - Geoffrey Fletcher & Sapphire (Novel)
Producer - Lee Daniels & Gary Magness
Music - Mario Grigorov
Cinematography - Andrew Dunn

Cast:
Precious - Gabourey Sidibe
Mary - Mo'Nique
Mrs Rain - Paula Pattron
Mrs Weiss - Mariah Carey
Cornrows - Sherri Shepard

Genre:
Drama

Themes:
Abuse
Neglect
Incest
Education
Equality

Budget:
$10 million

Box Office:
$63 million

Time:
110 minutes

Year:
2009

Production Company:
Lionsgate

Abuse & neglect:
Abuse is a main theme within this film and is what the story revolves around. Precious is abused by her mother, who doesn't care about her. She makes precious do dinner for her, and if she doesn't like it, she makes precious eat it herself.  Her mother sits at home all day watching tv, making precious get food for and jobs to pay the bills. Her mother let her boyfriend have sex with precious and have had 2 babies together. She gets laughed at at school and bullied by students. She is unloved, hated, poor and angry.

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