She was always frowning, sometimes expressionless, not saying a word. Life is so hard, but she just quietly bloomed in the misery.
The tone of the film is depressing and boring. In the house where Precious lives, the red light and the dark skin are often invisible in the darkness. Facing a mother who ruthlessly attacked her ability and self-esteem, Precious did not imagine how to kill her mother in her mind, as she did in bad movies. sought after. In her heart, there is always a stubborn weed, you think it has withered, you think it is dying, but when she walked into the heavenly white light in that classroom, this weed started fearlessly again grow.
At the end of the credits, Oprah is also found to be the co-producer of the film, and at the 82nd Academy Awards, she also introduced Gabourey Sidibe with an emotional tone. She loves the book so much, cares about the movie so much, and loves Gabourey so much, I think, more or less because of a similar misfortune in her own childhood.
Oprah said Gabourey had achieved an American dream. Indeed, within three days, Gabourey got the role of Precious, and finally competed with Merry Streep and Helen Miller on the same stage as the actress. Isn't this the American dream?
Likewise, Precious is making the American Dream. Although the film does not give any perfect ending until the end, everything seems to be messy and heavy, but we can feel the arrival of hope, and the American dream beckons to Precious.
And this has always been the value that Oprah lives by. Encouraging the weak and working hard, she herself is a typical representative of the American dream.
Are they the only ones who have achieved the American Dream? The little-known talk show actress Mo' Nique performed the tyrannical, cruel, and heartbroken mother so shockingly that she flew up to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and won the award softly.
And the screenwriter of this movie, a black man, who beat Up in the Air for best adapted screenplay, is also an American dream come true. Look, Precious's black director was also nominated for an Oscar and nearly rewrote history and ushered in a new era.
Just as the dark-skinned people scrambled to fly into the white light, the white-skinned faces in the film were easy to forget. Yeah, who would have thought that the female social worker who was a little numb, a little dull, disheveled, and disheveled could be Mariah Carey, a former queen?
She has been washed away, and she has contributed her best performance since filming. Plain and simple, without trace. But as the 82nd Oscars commented on Sandra Bullock's performance in "Weakness", the more natural and casual the performance, the more complicated it is. There are two details that can be seen in Mariah's intentions, both from when the social worker she played was talking to Precious and the latter's mother, Mary.
First, she was taking notes on what Mary said. At this time, Mary said that her biological father had possessed Precious's body. When the camera panned, Mariah was stunned, the pen stopped, and she stared blankly at the person who said these words casually. Mary, the expression on that moment was too real, it was truly unexpected, how devoted she was.
Second, Mary cried and said everything about herself. In fact, she was also a poor person. At this point Mariah turned, with her back to the audience. Just as she turned around, her hand reached out to her left eye. The crying of the female social worker was not shown on the camera, but this simple body movement, a thousand words do not need to be said.
At the end of the film, when the cast crew was released, a group of superstars who were dazzling, but all returned to the original ecological performance of life, finally recommended the newcomer, who is also the protagonist, Gabourey Sidibe. Of course, the fact that these stars can participate in this film is inseparable from the influence of Oprah.
The film is basically all female characters, with only two main male characters. One is Precious's math teacher, and the other is nurse John, played by Lenny Kravitz. And the most crucial man, Precious's father, was an absent presence. He was portrayed as an inhumane sexist, and even vaguely conveyed the message that so many black American men are. In a film showing an insulted, damaged, and distorted female image, it is not surprising that such a male image appears, but he hardly appears, but he cannot be ignored in everyone's narrative context.
Oprah's own mother was a bit like a Precious mother, just as bad for her. But Oprah's father was much better than Precious's. I have been thinking, in her concept, what place does father/mother love, patriarchy/femininity occupy?
I'm not surprised that the corners of my eyes are a little wet while watching the film. People have always kept their own tears in the stories of others. I didn't lament my current life, I just focused on the film itself. Life is hard and difficult, but Precious gritted his teeth and persevered, carefully safeguarding his inner dream, and finally had a self-identification and awakening, but that was inseparable from the help and encouragement of others.
Although our suffering does not seem to be on the same level as Precious, there is often no one to help in real life. We only rely on ourselves.
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