SubscribeNo this isn’t the action/super-powers Push that just came out in theaters this past weekend. The Push that Mariah is in is a lot more serious and has the critics paying attention to her performance…in a good way. Movie premiered at Sundance and took home three awards including the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award.
Most important for Mariah, critics have been raving of her performance. At first I didn’t believe it either but this clip is actually pretty convincing that she has finally shed her Glitter ways. See for your self and let me know what you think. Via: Black Voices
Note: Some foul language up in this clip so turn your speakers down a little at work.
Movie is about a young girl in Harlem named Precious Jones struggling to overcome tremendous obstacles and discover her own voice. Verbally and sexually abused by her family, her troubles lead to problems in school. Precious has no friends, no money, two kids (from her father), and she’s illiterate but comes across a concerned social worker (Carey) and a nurse who show her incredible kindness.
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i read the book PUSH a while ago, and the book (which, by the way, was written by a kickass dyke-identified Black woman poet/performer from NY)was first and foremost about Precious Jones, not any of the whites who even while helping Precious, clearly comprised cogs in the giant racist, classist machine that oppressed Precious, her mother, her father and her whole neighborhood. the book has very little to do with the social worker and everything to do with the mental process precious must go through to save herself and her baby, and to forgive the things that have been done to her by her relatives and by the callous disregard of the wider culture. PUSH is a political book as well as an uplifting story…I have not seen the movie, and i want to believe, but i find it hard to believe that the movie could possibly honor the self-realization that the book portrays. i think this because it is headed by a household name (Carey), and because it is a hollywood movie, however downplayed and framed as “independent”. I hope i'm wrong, but even if i am, everyone owes it to themselves to read the book, ESPECIALLY african-descended people.