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Title: Journalist Roundtable on the Movie "Precious"
START DATE: 12/6/2009
START TIME: 4:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
Revolution Books / Libros Revolucion
312 W. 8th St.
Downtown L.A. 90014
Event Topic:
Event Type: literary event
Contact Name: Nicole Lee
Contact Email: librosrevo@yahoo.com
Contact Phone: 213.488.1303
DESCRIPTION:
On Sunday, Dec. 6th at 4 PM, join us at Revolution Books / Libros Revolucion for a fascinating discussion on the powerful and controversial film "Precious" with journalists Erin Aubry Kaplan of the LA Times, Annie Day of Revolution newspaper, and moderator Michael Slate of KPFK. 312 W. 8th St. in downtown L.A., 213.488.1303.

Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, "Precious," the film traces through a transformation for 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones. The characters in this film are people that rarely fill the movie screen, people living in the bottommost part of our society - "fat Black girls" and "welfare mothers" who are usually only ever blamed, hated or looked down on, if looked at at all - but they are full humans, and here, portrayed as such.

Erin Aubry Kaplan in salon.com - "Far from being some exploitative spectacle for whites, the hard-hitting tale of "Precious" is a film for blacks and a challenge to drop our own emotional armor and embrace a real-life story we have been minimizing for a long time -- that of a big, black, sullen-faced, illiterate girl who lives in the depths of the ghetto and in all likelihood will stay there. She is the bogeywoman not just of white society but of black society, too, especially for a middle class that's been trying for years to rescue its "negative" racial image from the likes of Precious. But while we in the real world preach community ad nauseam, it's girls -- and boys -- like her who remain at the bottom of the well. In making the bottom dweller eminently human, the movie forces blacks to assess their own humanity. And I found myself squirming in the seat more than once." (Also, see Erin's review in the 11/29/09 LA Times.)



Annie Day in Revolution - "The story of Precious is not an anomaly but a distillation. While not every woman suffers incest, and not every woman is battered... within the confines of the family in today's society, every woman is told, in thousands of ways, that she must subordinate herself - her life, her dreams, her opinions, and in the most extreme but all too common cases her physical safety and sexual autonomy - to the man. Within these confines, women are (as our Party's Declaration states), 'evaluated essentially in terms of their usefulness to men, as mothers and wives and objects of sexual gratification.' What is precious about Precious is her potential. And it is to this we should lift our eyes. To a society where that potential - for not just one, but for the many - can be realized. And where the resonance of precious girls everywhere is not in the horrors they face, but in the reality that could be - where the millions of little girls born into our planet are viewed and treated not as discardable, as property or as playthings but as precious - to be loved and cherished as such in their wonderful diversity."
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