Precious is a brave film, taking on the difficult and unpopular subject of sexual abuse and violence, in addition to other important social issues such as poverty, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases and illiteracy.
The final confrontation in the film between Precious, her mother, and the social worker addresses head-on the question of how a mother can choose to abandon her child and look the other way in the face of violent sexual and physical abuse. Mo’Nique, playing the mother, accomplishes the incredible feat of illuminating this phenomenon in such a way that allows us to actually see into the soul of a mean, broken woman, exposing the slightest glimmer of vulnerability. She gives a tearful, breathless explanation of how the abuse began when her baby was three years old as her man would reach past her to touch her daughter while they were “doing it”, and how she didn’t want him to hurt her baby.
Most survivors in similar situations have always wanted to ask that question and have even more desperately wanted an answer. Most never have the opportunity. But Mo’Nique, with her brutally honest willingness to seek out the truth of the family dynamic of incest, has given the gift of answering the question.
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