Wicher with cuss word, Precious slaps that student and says to Mr. The class is rowdy and when a student responds to Mr. But first I want to be in one of those BET videos, and we see a fantasy sequence of her dressed in a photo-shoot, accompanied with a light-skinned boyfriend (who will be in all her future movie sequences.) She also says I 'm gonna break through, someone is going to break through to me, ima be normal and sit in the front of the class.
I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with good hair. She narrates, My name is Clarice Precious Jones. Much of the film is in first-person narration. Clarice Precious Jones (Gabourey Sildibe) is in a math class, daydreaming. The movies starts off with a picture of an orange scarf hanging off a street lamp and then flying through the air. Despite devastating news from her mother following her baby's birth, Precious also starts to believe that she can escape the grip of her abusive mother-who, up to this point, was Precious' only real support. Because of her current pregnancy, Precious' principal transfers her into an alternative school, where sympathetic teacher Miss Blu Rain tries to convince her that she can have a future if she learns how to read and write, and Precious starts to believe her. To escape her life, Precious daydreams of herself in glamorous situations. Mary does nothing but smoke, watch TV, and collect welfare through fraud (she doesn't even look for jobs) and believes that education does nothing for Precious she would rather have Precious also collect welfare, if only to bring money into the household. Her infant daughter, nicknamed Mongo because she has Down Syndrome, lives with Precious' grandmother Precious herself lives with her mother Mary, who abuses her physically and emotionally. In 1987 Harlem, 16-year-old Claireece Jones, who goes by her middle name, Precious, is illiterate, overweight, and pregnant-for the second time, by the same man: her biological father, who has molested and raped her since she was a child, but whom she doesn't see otherwise.
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