6. "life is hard. life is short. life is painful. life is rich. life is....precious."

Last week, the class watched the movie, Precious, but I missed that class and watched it by myself. First of all, it was very similar to the novel "The Bluest Eye" and it was as good and sad as it. The movie effected me almost in the same way with the novel. I kinda understood after the novel again how loneliness feels like.. Again a black girl looking for love, in the desire of being beautiful, again a dad who rapes his daughter and again a mother who does not have so much an effective relationship with the daughter. Precious was only a few ages older of Pecola, the same wants, the same kind of lifestyle are the obvious similarities between them. In the novel, it was mentioned that Pauline does not like her daughter because she is ashamed of her, but in the movie Precious's mother is jelaous of her daughter because she thinks her daughter has stolen her husband from her. In the novel such a case is not mentioned but it seemed possible to me.

The cruelty of people and the society's pressure was again very obvious in the movie as it was in the novel, but although Precious had aids and had a little life to live, she was luckier than Pecola because she had her children and supporters who was next to her to make her happy.