But, as i watched mary silence, physically abuse, and sexually sodomize her daughter, all i could think about as tears flowed was mary’s story and how she became who she was. Thus, it is no surprise that precious, who was sexually abused by her father, struggles with her weight, body and eating. The film's first story is about precious herself, a character whose endlessly miserable life is like something out of the trojan women When she's not getting raped and impregnated by her father, she's getting sexually, physically, and verbally abused by her mother mary (mo'nique.) Sapphire’s inspiration behind precious came from her experiences as a child The author was sexually abused by her father, a sergeant in the us army, at the age of eight
Her mother, a nurse, abandoned sapphire when she was just 13 However, precious’ story is not a retelling of her own. In the film precious, claireece precious jones, age 16, lives in an abusive household, where she suffers abuse (physical, sexual, emotional/mental, and verbal) on behalf of both of her parents, mary and carl jones. I would read the book push, which is what precious was based from It gives a lot more insight in to her and her mothers relationship or lack there of, and what precious is experiencing emotionally through it all. She turns a blind eye to the sexual abuse precious suffers at the hands of her father, carl jones, because she resents precious for stealin' her man
The movie has a lot of potential triggering content including I saw this movie a year ago for the first time in a gender in media class in college and it is currently my favourite movie For some reason, i thought precious was about an obese girl learning to. I thought the scene from the movie precious (2009) where precious's mother, played my mo'nique, is verbally abusing her was… Growing up, precious has been subject to verbal and physical abuse by her mother, mary (mo’nique) Carl, precious’ absentee father, raped her multiple times, resulting in two pregnancies
Precious’ first child, a daughter named mongo, lives with. She gets expelled from school, but not before being ridiculed by her classmates At home she is verbally, emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by her parents She faces abuse from her own community and, as if life had not challenged her enough, precious is taunted in her new school—the very place she escapes to get her life back on track. Neglect within the household continues when her mom forces precious to take on the parent role and do the dishes and be scolded for not picking up her cigarettes The next event is a sexual abuse scenario
In an exclusive interview with essence, mo'nique talks about sexual abuse and her powerful role in the new film precious. read an excerpt from this revealing article. By the end of the movie, we discover that the reason precious’s mother sexually and physically abused her was because she was mad that precious had received attention from the father Mary believed precious was stealing her man by “allowing” him to abuse her, and that it was ultimately precious’s fault he left. She was able to cope with all of her struggles and continue her education despite the abuse and lack of support from her parents and having two young children In both the book and movie, precious experiences some guilt because she begins to enjoy the sex with her father, but knows she is also betraying her mother Her father disappeared after the birth of precious’ first child, leaving her mother to blame her daughter for his absence in the household.
The family resides in a section 8 tenement and survives on welfare Precious's first child, a daughter named. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, carl She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, mary.
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