- "Precious"
tells the story of a bloated, ugly black girl who is cherished by a tyrannical mother who uses her 16-year-old and her mentally handicapped daughter to defraud her on welfare, while she is raped by her father and has two children. months pregnant. For most of the film, Zhen Ai suffers from it all in silence: the mother who turned her life of failure into extreme resentment on her daughter, the father who raped her, the mentally handicapped daughter, and the people around her who felt bad about black people. discrimination. In that home that was always dark and filled with a terrifying atmosphere, cherishing was always submissive and lived cautiously. Even so, the mother used every means to ravage the treasure. Either, she starved for a while, and she had to go to a fast food restaurant to defraud a bucket of fried chicken drumsticks; or, she found all kinds of excuses to let true love eat a lot of junk food at one time. But what can she do? Seeing her mother lying asleep in a chair, Zhen Ai would also put a blanket on her. She must have a home to go back to, at least there is still the fantasy of the love her mother gave her, because the social stigma against the black race will destroy her more thoroughly.
In such a purgatory life on earth, the cherished dream is to stand on a gorgeous stage like a superstar, and dance with his handsome boyfriend in the crowd. This is in stark contrast to the reality that she not only has to endure the insults of outsiders, but also the irony and hardships of her own mother. Whenever she suffers injustice, her beautiful dreams will appear. The more intense the pain in reality, the more dazzling the splendor in fantasy. Under the blows and irony of her mother, Zhen Ai completely lost her self-confidence. She thought she was worthless like shit, and she longed for a little bit of real care, real love. This can be as little as possible, walking on the road like a normal person as he wishes without being bullied and insulted.
Zhen Ai, who was pregnant again and refused to tell the truth, was expelled from the school and introduced to a one-on-one elective school. There she met several other troubled teenage girls and a kind new teacher. In the first lesson, it may be because they are all excluded by others, and they are easier to approach and coexist with equal status. For the first time, Zhen Ai spoke in class and shared her good wishes for naming herself "Zhen Ai". For the first time, she felt that she was no longer air. The teacher's genuine concern for her made him gradually realize that the consolation of mother's love, which was once used as a life-saving straw, does not exist. Here, she learned words, sentences, and writing in a diary... In the coexistence with them, Zhen Ai was warmed and slowly rekindled her enthusiasm for life. Her second baby was born while she read aloud her favorite fairy tale at one point. That's how life can be. Although life is still chaotic and tragic, the cherish at this time is under the halo of this only love, we hope that she is at least: pain, and happiness.
Zhen Ai, who was discharged from the hospital, decided to shoulder the responsibility of being a mother and give all her love to her children. She resolutely dropped out of school. With a glimmer of hope, she returned to her mother's house with a healthy baby. The mother sat on the reclining chair and watched TV as usual. The mother who wanted to hug the child suddenly became wild and threw the child to the ground. Zhen Ai's last bottom line collapsed, scuffled with her mother, and finally left. She decided to start a new life away from the pain of the past.
The teacher found a temporary "home" for her to rely on, but the arrival of her mother not only informed her of the death of her father who was suffering from AIDS, but also made her discover that she was also infected with the same disease. The dark clouds of fate and misery that seemed to fade away suddenly collided again, pointing the lightning of blame at her once again. In class, after she wrote "why me" in her diary with grief and indignation, she painfully vented the helplessness and resentment she had suppressed for a long time to her friends and teachers.
What touched me the most about this film is that at the end of the film, Zhen Ai sits with her mother, who, after recounting how her father raped her when she was three years old, shouted, "Who will love me, who will love me?" !". At this time, finally, we understand the original intention of mother's various perverted behaviors. She believes that cherishing has robbed her of the love that should belong to her. Although we despise this despicable behavior under the pretext of love, we have to forgive her sympathetically. She is also a weak person in life. Whose fault is her misfortune? She wants to capture all love by extremely twisted means: in order to keep her husband's love, she can condone her husband's rape of her daughter; in order to keep her daughter's love, she can sarcastically and belittle Zhenai, in order to make Zhenai think that she is motherly love It was her only support, even if this love made her miserable.
At the end of the film, Zhen Ai left with her mentally handicapped daughter in her arms. We believe that Zhenai will give all her love to her two daughters, that she will love her daughters, and her daughters will love her. Life goes on...
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