Scenes of Friendship

Precious finds true friendship later in the film. The teacher Ms. Rain she met in Each One Teach One helps Precious to rebuild her confidence. Precious is humble and willing to learn all the things Ms. Rain teach her. Due to Precious' kind heart and humble personality, people around her willing to offer her helps and being her friends. Precious has learned to love and care for others after she has been loved and cared for during the days she get along with Ms. Rain and her friends.

Scenes of White Refelction in the Mirror

The mirror always functions to refelct people's mind, thought or subconsciousness in the films. Precious sees herself as a blonde in the mirror which shows her eargerness of being a White woman. Precious is lack of confidence when she has oppressed too long by the environment she grows. Precious pursues a common (or even philistine)value of beauty in her contemporary that only blonde stands as beauty. By viewing herself as a blonde Precious gains herself some confidence. However, the blonde in the mirror is wearing a sad face which refelcts Precios' true mental status.

Scenes of Being Superstar

By dreaming being a superstar Precious can run away form the miserable events for a short period. In the film, Precious always has her dreams when she is maltreated. (Been raped, bullied, and kicked out by her mother) Though Precious grabs a short rest through these Superstar dreams, she has to face the crule reality after she wakes up, which is always a sad thing. These Superstar dreams make an irony to Precious life which makes people sad rather than excited to see her illusions.

Scenes of Romantic Illusions

Precious always dreams for having a romance with a "lighted skin guy who wear nice hair". The scenes above show her illusion for her teacher and the nurse both with lighted skin.(The teacher is a White man and the nurse a lighter Black man) We view Precious' such dream as the result of the offensive feeling caused by her father's violence rape. By dreaming her romantic dreams, Precious gets the chance to run away from the crule reality.

Scenes of Being Bullied

Precious is not only maltreated at home but also out on the street. Beside to the fact that the gays laughed at her for her fatness, gender issue is also the problem. The scenes indicate female's status is lower than the male's in African American society.

Scenes of Being Raped

The raping scenes show Precious' miserable life in the past and they are the connections to the present to tell audiences what happened to Precious that leaded to her pregnancy (which also made her been kicked out from school). In the raping scenes we learn that Precious' mother notice what is happening as we can see her figure shows up at the door. However, the mother choose not to stop what is going on. Having a monstrous father and an indifference motehr Precious still has her fantastic dream. During the raping, Precious dreams of being a super star. The breaking ceiling will turns out to be Precious' illusion as a super star which is compeletly the other way from the reality.

Scenes of Being Abused

These scenes show how Mary abuses Precious physically and verbally. The abusing scenes provide the audiences the background imformation of Precious' life. Abusing scenes can be saw through the whole film that remind audience how miserable experience Precious always comes up with. The abusing scenes are Precious' shadowed past which make an obvious contrast to Precious' better future.