I really want to talk about this movie. I have to get this down in writing and get it off my chest. I avoided this film like the plague. My old lady wanted to see it in the worst way, I demured. Why? Cause I lived with enough girls like Precious growing up, they live in my family, they ride the school buses in my town, I see and hear them/her dail. Why see a celluloid depiction of her miserable life writ large on the screen?

Well I went and saw the elephant and now I'm so mad I can chew lead and spit bullets. A reviewer from the New York Times compared this film to D.W. Griffiths "Birth of A Nation" and he's not far wrong. This is the most vile, evil, one sided depiction of African American's in the history of American Film. It panders to every low, moronic, despicable stereotype of African American life you can imagine. All men save one are mysoginistic, incestuous brutes. The women depicted are little better. All the characters are painted with the broadest brush in the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. It's as vile and unnecessary a bout of filmic torture as Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ".

I'm so pissed about this I don't know who else to talk to about this film with except you folks. If this film were produced about any other race or culture there'd be riots in the the street and there SHOULD be riots over this travesty but there won't be... why? Because, as has happened so often in the past, the dirty deed was perpetrated by member of the party portrayed.

Tyler Perry should be ashamed of himself. I put up with his stereotypic tripe before with the whole Madea series because... it was a joke, much like him. However, when you switch from making broad brush "comedies" to "serious dramatic works" you are then required to raise your art to a more serious level. The depictions of Black men int his film place them right up there with villians from Uncle Tom's Cabin and other moral tomes from centuries past. There are no nuances, no subtlties no characterizations black men are just beasts!!! Animals, Criminals. Inexcusable when you've a world and a country already willing to believe the worst about black men as it is. I'm sure the TeaBag Nazi's are slurrping this film up like beer as "proof positive" from a Black Man as to the degraded beasts they are.

Oprah Winfrey is almost as guilty as Perry in this. This writes large what I've always felt about her... she hates men and hates black men with a passion. Take a look at all the films she's been a part of "The Color Purple", "Beloved" and now this chite? What's the one overiding theme? Black men as beasts and vermin. The only persons of any value are Precious herself and her lesbian saviours. Are you effin' ****tin me?

I'm not saying that the story of Precious is false, I know too many girls like her and families like her's to say that. But I also know that they exist in all colors, all races all cultures. If the Irish, Italians of Indian's were potrayed in this manner they'd burn the studio down!!!! Now if this film was not made for entertainment or enlightement, and I say it was made for neither in that it neither entertains nor enlightens, then why was it made.

Precious was made for one God Damn reason and one alone... to make Tyler Perry money and fame. No major motion picture depicting the flaws of Black people has ever lost money in America and they never will. Tyler Perry is the worst kind of explotive film maker he panders to the racists for pay. He gives them what they want to see for dirty money. Black Actresses and Actors can't win an Oscar unless they play crazed individuals, terrribly flawed people or old time house negros. "Traning Day" "Last King of Scotland", "Monsters Ball" vs. "Driving Miss Daisy", "Gone With the Wind" or Lillies of the Field". You tell me which I should be madder about?

Dammit I'm mad, I've not been this mad about a film in my entire life and trust me I'll be sending a copy of this to Mr. Perry as well.

Worf