I went to see an advance screening of Precious tonight. Lee Daniels (the director) and Paula Patton (the actress who plays the influential teacher) were there to do a Q&A afterwards. The screening was for teachers and youth workers in particular, and it was at the E Street Cinema downtown (which is my fave movie theatre).

Man, I don't even know what to say.

I want everyone I have ever known to see this movie. The kids I work with, my kids, live this movie or something like it every single day. One of my girls in particular leads a life scarily parallel to Precious's. Their strength and courage is unimaginable to me. I don't know where it comes from, their resilience. I know I could never do what they do just by facing life every day.

I want to make a big soapbox post about this movie and the issues it addresses and working with "troubled youth" and my feelings, but I don't want to be soppy or sound patronizing and also it is late. I do want people who've seen the movie (or read the book Push, which it's based on) to come talk to me about it, though. I really want to process but I am just so speechless.


SO INSTEAD I will ask if anyone knows if there is a Big Bang Theory episode download community? :D I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT. You can drop me an email or something if you don't want to comment. lucifee @ gmail dot com