Precious Movie Psychology

Precious’ abuse started as an infant when she was molested and raped by her father as her

The Notebook demonstrates the growth and development theories including biosocial, psychosocial, and cognitive. The Notebook is a movie about a young couple who falls in love. The woman, Allie, is from a wealthy family who is discouraged when she has fallen in love with a young man, Noah, who only makes .40 cents an hour (Cassavetes, 2004). The story is told through a “notebook” that Noah is reading to Allie, whom has Alzheimer’s disease. Allie has no clue that Noah is her husband due to her disease. Noah has hope that Allie will eventually recognize the story he is telling her and realize it is her husband

Precious, a movie based on the book Push written by Sapphire, is an interesting movie directed by Lee Daniels. Precious can be easily analyzed using basic motivation and emotion theories in psychology. The movie is about Claireece "Precious" Jones and how she becomes a strong, independent woman after breaking through her curse of physical and sexual abuse which she has endured since she was three months old. At the beginning, Precious is physically and verbally abused by her mother. In addition, Precious was raped by her father multiple times and impregnated twice. After being kicked out of her school because she was pregnant, Precious willingly joins the Each One Teach One alternative school so she can improve her reading and writing

Towards the end of the movie, Precious looks out the window and sees her dream guy. As her mom walks by, she chooses to walk away from the window. At this point, I believe that she is disengaging from the fantasy world that she had been trying to live in for so many years.

She smoothes over Sofia's betrayal of the family, her running away and fighting with her father, by calling it lucky that she ended up with such a loving husband and a beautiful blonde baby. Her story about the thieves who got caught the night Sofia was born similarly reflects her desire to look on the brighter side of things. She needs this positive attitude to craft positive family stories out of unfortunate events.

The film Precious is an emotional movie that deals with the unfortunate realities of everyday life for some individuals. The film that stares Gabourey Sidibe who plays the main character Clarice “Precious” Jones is based out of Harlem in the year of 1987. Precious is a sixteen year-old obese and uneducated teenager whom has had to grow up in a severely dysfunctional family environment. Her mother verbally and physically abuses her, often times using her as a personal servant. Her father has been sexually abusing her since childhood, and has impregnated her twice. Precious has lived with the ugly truth that because of her weight, skin color, and sexual abuse, she does not fit in

Lars’s behavior can be explained best by the psychoanalytical approach, which is Freud's theory that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Lar’s personality may have been skewed based on the death of his mother at a very young age which had affected him growing up, as seen throughout the movie when he had trouble communicating with various female individuals. Along with this it is learned that after the death of his mother, Lar’s father distanced himself from Lar’s and his brother, Gus. It is also mentioned in the movie that Gus left home as soon as he was able to support himself, leaving Lars alone. From the psychoanalysis perspective we can determine that Lars’s personality is a result of his loneliness as a child. The defense mechanism of displacement can also describe his behavior. Displacement is a defense mechanism in which one shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening objector person. This can explain why Lars shifts his sexual feelings towards Bianca. The psychoanalytical approach best explains why Lars is unable to cope with his environment.

Pearl did not live a good life, because she struggled heroically by keeping the family together. Pearl who has three kids named Cody, Ezra, Jenny and married to man named Beck Tull. The Tull family moves a lot due to jobs. Her life turned miserable after Beck left the family without any reason. When Beck left, Pearl got a hand full of responsibilities to take on her own. Pearl lived in Baltimore when Beck was gone and she lived with her kids alone. “We celebrate at home, she wrote. Beck surprised me with the prettiest necklace…”(11) At the moment she was struggling with reality, she still managed to stay still on her own. Her strong points made Pearl think Beck will return and her strong will mind aids her. The more she stays strong, more

As the girl continues on to grow up she is continually facing challenges with her confidence and thus affecting her emotionally and physically. For instance, one of the line states that “ she went to

During all the abuse Precious felt a loss of control in her daily life. To put her mind at ease she indulged in compulsive eating, and escaping into fantasy fascinations. These self-destructive habits gave her a short-term satisfaction that she needed to survive. The movie presents a common theme: We do not get to choose our

Dr. Nise, one of the most powerful women during the 1950s as she was firm in her beliefs and even spent some time in the prison for that matter. Although, the entire movie kept me on my toes, the first 45 minutes of the movie was horrifying. The treatment of the psychiatric patients and the living conditions were unimaginable. For example, patients were treated like they were less than animals, no attention to hygiene, male patients walking around naked, violent care takers abusing the patients, and using patients to demonstrate the electroshock therapy.

Susana Kaysen is a fictional character in the movie, Girl, Interrupted. She is an 18 year old young adult, who suffers from a mental illness. Susana had multiple behaviors that can be defined as abnormal. There are four categories that Susana’s behaviors are grouped in. The first one is deviance, which is defined by behaviors that differ from society’s norms.

Throughout history there have been many instances where African Americans were oppressed in a variety of ways. From slavery and blatant racism of the past or the institutional racism that still exist today there have been many trials that have proven to be obstacles for African American. The media also played a large role in the oppression of African Americans especially women. Throughout history there have been many controlling images of African American women that were often used to justify the domination of African American women. Hill-Collins described how these images are used to justify the oppression of African American women, “As part of a generalized ideology of domination, stereotypical images of Black womanhood take on special meaning.

Also, when thinking about the determination of Precious, I remember a small detail that changed from the beginning of the novel. Early on in the story, Precious says "Reeboks, white! Better than Nikes? No, next shits I get be Nikes!." Towards the end of the novel Precious then says "I look up from my shoes, Nikes; girls got they hand up.." Now I know, that something as small as a pair of shoes shouldn't really be important in a story full of all of many achievements, however, I feel that these statements were really important. Its was something that was significant of Precious coming up through the world, even if her circumstances were far more sever than many other human beings.

It would appear that in order to achieve even the most rudimentary understanding of Erika's sordid psyche, the relationship between mother and daughter must be examined. Erika is a middle aged, seemingly straight-laced, uptight, piano professor who not only lives with her mother but also sleeps in the shame bed. As the film unfolds it is abundantly clear that Erika's mother has been a powerful force in her life and has pushed her towards becoming a virtuoso at the expense of everything else. Because of this, Erika becomes alienated from the rest of the world and as a result she is forced to create her own world full of taboo fantasies. Haneke’s use of distant camera shots are designed to give the audience perception of the cold distant relationship