I've watched this movie so many times and never does it get easier to see what Precious has to go through but the ending is always so uplifting in the way that she becomes her own hero.
In the beginning of the movie when Precious is sitting in math class, she tells us that she wishes someone would break through to her, ultimately saving her from this harsh reality that she is living in with all types of abuse coming from those closest to her. I think the verbal abuse that she received from her mother convinced her, to some point, that she wasn't capable of achieving certain things but then there's something so powerful in the way that she makes this break through to herself by herself. We can give a bit of credit to her principal for informing her of Each One Teach One but what it really took was her drive to want to learn and create somethimg of herself.
Not only did she learn to read and write but she also learned a lot about herself; even from the first day when she sat in the front of the class and felt here. Towards the end of the movie, in the scene where Precious is sitting in the office next to the girl with the bruised eye, Shaina pointed out that it's sad how that little girl is ultimately going through the same situation. I thought Precious putting her red scarf around her was a way of saying, "You'll get through this, too".
The other day, I cried. But you know what? Fuck that day. That's why God, or whoever, makes other days.
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