What were the political, social, cultural, and economic forces “intersecting” to shape how she saw her daughter and how she saw herself? I saw this movie a year ago for the first time in a gender in media class in college and it is currently my favourite movie Precious' excessive weight and eating plays a central role in the movie
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Aspects of the story help illuminate many of the reasons emotional, physical, and particularly sexual abuse, are risk.
The film's first story is about precious herself, a character whose endlessly miserable life is like something out of the trojan women
When she's not getting raped and impregnated by her father, she's getting sexually, physically, and verbally abused by her mother mary (mo'nique.) she even gets pushed around by strangers on the street. The family resides in a section 8 tenement and survives on welfare Precious's first child, a daughter named. Janet taylor shares her observations on the film precious, discusses sexual abuse and incest the black community, and explains why we have to watch out for our girls.
The movie has a lot of potential triggering content including
