Precious

Sigh. This is one more sign that the apocolypse is upon us. That we have decayed from within. Or maybe that we have failed to pregress away from neolithic man.
The story is a sad one, but it is told unapologetically. Precious doesn't even know how abused she has been and how unfair it is.
We meet her as she is getting thrown out of 8th grade as a 16 year old. She is pregnant, by rape, by her father, for the second time. Her mother blames her for stealing her man. She encourages her to drop out of school and go on welfare. Heard enough to qualify for sad? We have only just begun. Mother and daughter in this tragedy are both pitch perfect and at no point did I want to call it quits and refuse to go on.
Precious manages to get herself into a last ditch effort to get your GED. She is with people who have her best interests at heart, and no illusions about how hard they are to achieve, when the next blow falls--she is HIV positive. But as is often the case with people who are chronically abused, there is only so low you can go. She continues to put one foot in front of the other to make progress forward. Her mother's closing scene is a soliliquey on how it is all about her is priceless and pathetic.