Heartbreaking and Prescious

The new film "Prescious" accomplishes its emotional power by speaking louder than anything else and making itself heard. It is a movie whose central protaganist encounters nothing but horrible circumstances at every turn. She's obese, poor, sexually abused, pregnant with her second child by her father, and with a verbally abusive and physically abusive mother who thinks nothing of telling her daughter she's a big fat dummy, and that she should have aborted her when she had the chance.

The movie may be emotionally manipulative, but its sure effective. Hell, even the sight of Mariah Carey as a welfare worker can't break its hold over the audience. The film is almost relentless as it throws all this misery and heartbreak at the audience. And Mo'Nique is truly terrifying as her welfare queen mother who encourages her daughter to just live off the government's teat just like her.

It's no friday night date movie, and not exactly an uplifting story.
But the images and performances in Precious will make quite an impression that will be tough to shake.

"Precious:" B+