Whoever made this film needs to be jailed for life without the possibility of parole. I mean...what the fuck! Why highlight the most negative aspects of life and put it in the context of black people? Incest, rape, pedophilia, Aids, violence, abuse...what the fuck was the filmmaker thinking? What was his message: that all African Americans are savages? In this day and age, when we have a black president and people's perceptions of blacks are supposed to change, you release this shit? I just have to laugh, before i cry......
It was made by a black director. I thought it was a solid film, and at no point did I think, this is what all black people are like. I've had white people in my life who have grown up in similar circumstances. It was tragic, and it was horrible to watch, but it certainly wasn't a fairy tale.
It was released, November 2009, so Obama was already in office. Yup, very disturbing film. It just went from bad to worse, at the end of it I was rather depressed.
Yeah you are right. I dont know why i tough it was released in 2007. But the book was out before Obama, so there. That being said, what does Obama know about being African American anways?
I worded it incorrectly. They shouldn't have made such a film for any group. A Black filmmaker for damned sure shouldn't have made it to portray black life.
Just jokes, Whiskey. Still, my point is: Blacks have always been portrayed in a negative manner in the media which has helped in the negative perception of them among most groups and so a film like that only serves to further perpetrate this idea. As such i disagree with such a film being made. If you disagree with me, that's fine, but don't expect me to feel the need to justify why I feel that way in answering every single question you throw...which is designed to corner me into a smaller and smaller box. Fuck that shit. You know my point, accept it or fuck it. I'm not playing that game. Sure, there's nothing wrong with having films that portray negative aspects of life...not all films can be lighthearted and heart warming...I choose not to enjoy films with such disturbing themes, especially when it's perpetrating an already negative stereotype.
Well it's one thing to not enjoy such films it's quite another to suggest they shouldn't be made. While on one hand movies can perpetuate negative stereotypes you don't have to go very far in the other direction to have some sanitized feel good PC bullshit.
IMO Sly should be more upset with the dreck that Tyler Perry pumps out and passes off as "Black Entertainment". "Precious" was affecting at least ,and portrayed a fucked up family, not a "black" family. I think lots of people related to it, of all types of backgrounds, as disturbing as it was.
Tyler Perry didn't make it, I'm pretty sure that was my point. If Tyler Perry made it, Precious would have been a heavyset, sassy and precocious young girl looking for the man of her dreams to fulfill her lifelong goal of becoming a mother. Tyler Perry, playing Precious's Mom AND Grandmom, counsel Precious into using her sassy personality to land Tyrese Gibson, while also having an NBA point guard in line as a backup baby daddy. Precious gets her comeuppance when she overplays her hand and ends up having to marry a construction worker with a borderline personality disorder instead. Everybody learns a valuable lesson including the audience during the final "family dinner" scene. "Oh child, in the end, all you gots is family"! The End alm:
Hater!!!! If Madea was here she would have shot you in you kneecap son. And then given you a valuable lesson on morality, right after cursing out a judge and going on a wild driving adventure.
I'm upset about a lot of shit that is passed off as black entertainment. Plus Tyler Perry was involved in Precious somehow.