Precious

OH WOW!

Denise and I went to see Precious on Thursday night - our neighbour had gone away at short notice and had already paid for tickets - so Denise and I headed out for a little treat - neither or us had been to to movies (except for kids flicks) in nearly two years.

When Denise asked if I knew anything about the movie - that Oprah had something to do with it and that Mariah Carey was in it but had been "prettied" down for it, I remembered seeing images from an ad somewhere - either on TV or the internet? I just remembered a very large African American girl dancing...

So I thought that it would be a nice flick to go and see...

OMGness!

This film will hands down win the Academy Awards for 2010 - I am almost certain of it! Avatar will take out Special Effects, Animation and Soundtrack - but the rest???

I am not a betting person - but if I were....

What unfolded over the next two and half hours was a script, story, setting and acting that is unparalleled to ANYTHING I have ever seen before - and I am a BIG lover of inspirational stories.

It was acted superbly, with incredible respect for the confronting and difficult subject matter that it dealt with.

That this film is based on real events absolutely devastates and floors me.

I spent most of the film in tears... desperately trying to hold it together for the sake of the ticket-payers sitting next to me...

In so many ways, it mirrored my life, in others, it was not quite autobiographical - but there were so many real-life touch points for me that my world was completely rocked in the two and a half hour screening.

DO NOT go to this movie expecting a piece of fluff or a nice, slightly-confronting- inspirational piece.

It is SO much more than that.

Be prepared to be confronted, challenged, horrified, disgusted and yet uplifted and inspired as you watch hope grow out of some of the most devastating and horrific circumstances.

If The Passion of the Christ made you cringe and weep, expect the same from this film.

You will walk away enlighted, empassioned and with a VERY healthy respect for victims and survivors of sexual abuse at the basest level.

But DO go see it.

It will probably become the defining film of this generation and almost definitely - this decade....

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Simply Fi