“Precious” Movie is not being screened in all Theaters

Lee Daniel’s much talked about movie “precious” has finally been released. This week, it would only be screened at L.A. New York, Chicago and Atlanta. The film has gathered plenty of appreciation in movie festivals and now it would try to impress the general public. The movie is based on a sexually abused teenage African-American girl. It is basically based on the “Push” novel by Sapphire. The movie has already made a huge buzz in the film festivals and to put the cherry on the cake, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry have been endorsing it heavily.

The film has already stirred up some controversies as it is being said that it’s not a good representation of African-American women, plus sized women, or urban youth in general. We found Loren Pritchett, a student at Virginia Commonwealth University posting a bit different opinion on www.thegrio.com about the movie. She thinks: “Movies like this are double-edged swords in the black community. On one hand it serves as an informative vehicle for discussion, but at the same time casts a label across the black community as a whole, leaving audience members of the opposite race throwing us all into one big troubled category.”

Politically incorrect film critic Armond White from NYC has given thumbs down and quite some nasty thrashing to the movie. He not only criticized Daniel, but also did not forget to take a stab on Perry and Oprah. White said “Precious is an orgy of prurience…Not since ‘Birth of a Nation’ has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as ‘Precious’.”

But hey, these are opinions of other people, why don’t you go out to the theatres and decide for yourself and let us know?

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