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If the overall story feels slight. [Lee Daniels]' bizarre syntax at least gives the illusion of something new and exciting. As with Shadowboxer, Daniels is a reckless filmmaker, whose own films-unlike the stodgy, comically simplistic ones he's produced Monster's Ball, The Woodsman)-show little care for craft, taste or even sense. Indeed, Daniels' trick is to hew so close to Sidibe's Precious it often feels the film was made by the character herself. Her rambling narration is so prevalent it actually interrupts scenes, often while another person is talking. The tone is bipolar, rolling around in utter horror one second, then reveling in moments of stolen joy the next.
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Precious: Based On the Novel Push by Sapphire
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
c+Reviewed by Matt PriggeOpens Fri., Nov. 13Four years ago producer Lee Daniels made h...See the full content of this document
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