Precious
Courtesy of Icon Film, we have passes for the Oscar-nominated Precious.
A powerful film, Precious feels almost like a contemporary take on The Colour Purple, with its story of abuse and survival. It is so good that even Mariah Carey can act in it.
In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen pregnant with her second child is invited to enrol in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. It will not be easy for Precious to break away from the chains that have made her unhappy and incapable of loving herself.
Precious has been nominated for six Academy Awards (Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actres, Adapted Screenplay and Editing. It’s already won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2009, as well as a Golden Globe for Monique’s performance as Precious’ abusive mother.
Precious is in cinemas now.
To win, email us and tell us, what is the most confronting film you’ve ever seen, and why?
Antichrist, its not every day you see a woman rapidly turning into a lunatic remove her genitalia with a rusty pair of scissors!
The most confronting film I have seen is CRASH.
What a journey of different lives all culminating together. Sexism and racism. A journey of the heart. It opened my eyes to issues in this world and what people have to go through in their lives. What a fantastically directed film.
HARD CANDY — being a male it took a week to uncross my legs.
Boys Don’t Cry. A true story, and therefore so much more devastating – that someone could be treated that way because of their sexuality. And an absolute knock out performance from Hillary Swank.
I saw One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest when it was first released. I was an impressionable 17 year-old. The moment when Jack Nicholson was wheeled out having undergone a lobotomy, was so confronting to my sense of justice and morality that I have never been able to face seeing the movie again, and probably never will. It was one of those brilliant life-changing films.
La Sconosciuta…a beautiful but very disturbing film all at once..it shows how memories can traumatise us in small everyday events as well as a study of the sad realities of sex slave trade workers.
I found Monster pretty disturbing particulalry as the woman sitting next to me had a seizure during the rape scene.