i love movie that push it and show the dark side and psychology in human interaction without sugarcoat it . precious have some really interesting premise for sure but a the story behind the main character unfold it just get more and more until it just too much and feel like a cartoon . we be talk about a grotesquely obese illiterate black teen grow up in the bad condition . she be pregnant with her second child which she get from her own father who repeatedly rap her . her mother be abusive and keep deprive her of self worth and make her eat . could be a psychological study but they just keep layer everything until you wonder if this be a joke . her mother seem to sexually abuse her too and she treat her first child like an animal because the girl have down syndrome . it go on like that and spice everything up with her father dying and her find out he be hiv positive right when she be try to turn her life around with her second child and her learning progressing in a new school . come on . subtlety be really lose on this movie and honestly i thing a lot of thing just do not add up in the behavior of her mother who be depict like the devil himself until a final breakdown . precious sure be not a bad movie but if you touch on subject like this and go about it like you be try to top of the previous saw movie with new sick invention it just hurt the premise . it a totally average movie and it get down to this when you see how people her either call it best of all time or bad movie ever .