In several scenes, Precious is shown eating the cheapest food she can get her hands on – pig's trotters boiled in fat; a chicken bucket she eats too quickly because she is hungry and promptly throws up.
Despite her lack of acting experience or formal training, she appeared in almost every scene of Precious, the most hard-hitting and affecting film of the year.
The most fashionable materials among young 1960s designers were plastics, while Ms. Pergay's contemporaries on the decorative arts scene favored precious metals or rare woods.
There's this one scene where Precious leaves the house to go to an alternative school---she's been kicked out of her regular school---and before she goes, she carefully matches her headband to her t-shirt.
He put some lurid scenes into "Precious" (2009) and got away with it, because audiences were eager for a Hollywood film to take on the strong subject matter — the consciousness of a smart, brutalized girl in Harlem in the nineteen-eighties — and they accepted the scenes as a necessary truth.
The raucous, funny classroom scenes in "Precious" balanced that movie's operatic flights of social dysfunction, and the evenings at the Gaineses' place — often attended by friends played by Terrence Howard and Adriane Lenox, speaking of fine character actors — serve a similar function here.
One is the precious scene of overpriced coffee and its drinkers, of designer shops and map-clutching tourists.
Elsewhere, one precious scene finds Jones touring a nuclear plant with his new boss, a polystyrene bust on a stick constantly getting the hump at Jones's asides to the audience.
Add a dose of grogginess, and it's tough to imagine a more precious scene.
What were we?" In one precious scene, Harris is Charlotte playing a little girl playing war with Branwell's toy soldiers.
