Schemes of work: Precious
Find out as much as you can about the film PRECIOUS. Consider summaries, trailers and reviews and collect reasons why it might or might not be interesting and enlightening to watch the film in class.
- title: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
- was published in 2009 by Lee Daniels
- Gabourey Sidibe plays the central character Claireece Jones, called Precious
- Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey also play a role
The movie plays in the year 1987 with the 16-yearls-old Claireece, who is overweight, cannot really write and read and who is pregnant for the second time.
Her first child is called “Mongo” and has Mongolian idiocy [-> Down's syndrome]. Her quasi stepfather raped her, so he is the father of both kids.
Her unemployed mother beats and mistreats Precious.
Although she has good results in school , she has to leave school because of her second pregnancy and has to participate at the project “Each One Teach One”.
Miss Rain helps her to proof her writing and reading skills during her visits at school. There is also a social worker,Mrs Weiss, who helps Claireece. The people from “Each One Teach One” visit her at hospital after birth.
Mary, her mother, accuses Precious of stealing her boyfriend, who eventually infected her with HIV [: human immunodeficiency virus].
While a meeting, arranged by Miss Rain, between Mary and Claireece, she gets to know that she was raped since her third year.
In the end she leaves her mother and her old life with her two children.
