Precious

Director: Lee Daniels

Starring: Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz

Year: 2009

**

Theme: Why Me? And understandably so. Precious is that character whose shoes no one wants to be in, and whose shoes, when left behind to tell a story, might make you shed those tears of pity.

A tortured existence who manages, despite all the crap dealt to her, to slip away into her own fantastic world of fantazy. In some ways, it's a version of "Pans Labyrinth" but to much less imaginative extent. After all, Precious is a Harlem teenager who has never had a boyfriend, been forcefully fed to grow into the size she is, and been pregnant twice. But let me leave the plot at that.

Mo'Nique stole the screen with her presence. She was downright intimidating. Scared the heck out of me. And then when she sat blubbering at the end, I felt disturbed at that ounce of compassion crawling out for her over-powdered round face. Amazing. A comdian doing THAT. How wonderful is human capacity!

Enjoyable... if you can call something like this enjoyable!

**

Rate: 6/10