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Jaclyn Butler 04/24/2012 Intracultural Communications Professor Brook Film Analysis on 2009’s â€Å"Precious† Analyzing a dynamic film like the 2009 â€Å"Precious† is difficult. The movie got a lot of praise for the acting and the story that was portrayed but it also got a lot of heat from the race that was portrayed in the movie. African Americans nationwide said the movie made their African American ghettos into a sexually incest ridden, classless society and didn’t properly show any of the positive attributes that come from the African American ghettos. In our course of Intra cultural communication we have studied through different topics, ones that I think are shown in the movie are culture, race, class, and sexuality. I am going to†¦show more content†¦Other reviews of the movie put the article in a positive light Latoya Peterson, the editor of Racialicious.com, a blog about the intersection of race and popular culture, said opposing views of the film are off base. â€Å"Those reviews buy into the narrative that there can only be one acceptable presentation of black life,† Ms. Peterson said. â€Å"They’re flattening the black experience, and in that way, he denies our humanity.†Ms. Peterson, who lives in the Washington area, said that she believed that â€Å"Precious† effectively tackled many issues affecting young girls: â€Å"sexual abuse, poverty, violence and failing schools.† Sexuality in the movie â€Å"precious† was one of the subjects I found the most disturbing. Sexuality is defined as â€Å"sexual character; possession of the structural and functional traits of sex, recognition of or emphasis upon sexual matters; involvement in sexual activity; an organism s preparedness for engaging in sexual activity.† There a number of ways in which sexual lines are crossed in the film. Clareece is raped by her father and eluded her mother as well. Her two children are the product of her father’s rape, and her sexual say in anything is taken away. She is doing these things for her parent s and telling no one. She is being raped and taken advantage of by both of her parents and the actress tells no one of this. This portrayal is extreme, I am sure situations arise in this case but seeing the movie and watching the aspects of