The jury is still out with me. What's so interesting is that my student have been waiting for this film, based the novel "Push" by Sapphire, to come out. These are teenagers who usually won't flock to a film that's remotely political in nature or this dark. Well, unless they are tricked into it. I wonder how far Lee Daniels pushed the melodrama. In the trailer below I am pretty sure poor Precious Jones gets hit with a frying pan about 5 times. Some in "academia" like to knock Sapphire and slam-poetry, but at the end of the day if this is what engages teenagers to get involved in the arts, writing, or to discover poetry then why are we trying to bring it down
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