Precious

A very difficult film to watch. The first half depicts the crushing of the spirit of a morbidly obese black teenager by her outrageously cruel and mean-spirited mother. She is also rejected by her peers. The second half focuses on her struggle to revive some of her humanity with the help of a sympathetic teacher.

The arc of this story moves toward the positive but the depth of the well of sadness, meanness is too great to be overcome in 45 minutes. I was left with the sense of having been battered comatose and coming to with a kindly hand stroking my face...it helps some but not nearly enough...I'm still lying there battered.

Well done but an awful ordeal.

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