-This past friday night I finally decided to treat myself to Precious, the movie. After hearing everyone talk about how amazing the movie was and reading the book I thought it was only fitting the watch the film version of PUSH.
-Sadly, I think that the movie is very overrated. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I read the book first before watching a movie version of a story for the first time in my life(sad I know). To me the book left out so many details that were so important in the book. In the movie you only see two-scenes of Carl raping Precious, not that I want to see more scenes of it, but in the book it's such a big deal that Precious is being raped. In the movie because there are so little scenes of it, the rapes seem forgotten.
-Also, in the book we learn how close Precious gets with the girls from Each One, Teach One. They become something close to being called best friends. In the movie things are quite as obvious. In the movie we do see the girls bond, especially when Precious gives birth to Abdul but, other than that you don't see any critical bonding like we read about in the book.
-Similar to in the book, there are certain scenes in the movie that are hard to watch. For example, when Precious was being screamed at and beat by her mother because her father rapes her and ignores the mother. It's a very difficult scene to watch but it keeps you wondering what you'll see next. However, from here on the rest of the movie comes up short.
-I've never been a big fan of reading a story in comparisosn to watching a movie version of a story. I've always been a movie person more than a book person. This experience with PUSH and Precious was a shock for me. I expected the movie to be just as if not more exciting and revealing than the book was but, unfortunately it came up very short.
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