She almost morbidly obese and now she has HIV. Usually when you get AIDS you get skinny, I bet she doesn't drop a pound. How long do you think Precious will live? Could she really take care of herself?
Is there really a future out there for morbidly obese black women with HIV? (and she has two kids)
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She has a plan and she cares for her children. It is a good plan to get her GED and to go to college. If she has HIV, that can be controlled with medication. She has learned a positive lesson from her very negative life experience. She will get some help along the way because she deserves it. Yes, she has a future.
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"Did you make coffee...? Make it!"--Cheyenne.
"If she has HIV, that can be controlled with medication".
Not in 1987. It wasn't until protease inhibitors, became available
at the end of 1995, that antiretroviral therapy really began to make
a difference.
A lot of intra venous drug using butt *beep* *beep* died
before the drug cocktail showed up.
'Let's eat Grandma!' or, 'Let's eat, Grandma!' Punctuation saves lives. Use it. Save a life.
At the very least I hope she's never raped again and she's free now. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees and all that. But yes, her future isn't ideal by a long stretch, it's pretty tragic.
shareThis movie takes place in 1987 aids medication was still only available in experimental trials
shareI would say no... not truly. She's got HIV in the late 80's & only if you're Magic Johnson do you live more than a decade w/that disease.
but she did at least turn the corner mentally. she pulled herself out of the hole of a life she lead. lost her. I'm no good attitude & actually started to look at life as if it had possibilities.
Well, the median time for an HIV infection to progress to AIDS is quite long (10 years). There's a lot of variability though (that's why the median and not the mean is used): you could still be healthy 15 years later (very unlikely), or get AIDS months after (very ulikely too).
With a little bit of luck, she doesn't develop AIDS for eight years or so, just enough time to be among the first to get "modern" drugs. It did happen: some people has been infected for 25 years (or more!) and still kicking (and quite a bit of them are not rich, just regular people on developed countries).
There's even the people that say that, had Freddy Mercury survived just one more year, he'd be probably still alive.
In fact, AZT was released around 1987 (though it wasn't very effective, had several nasty side effects and it was hard to have adherence, but with a bit of luck would help to slow down a non-advanced infection).
There's a sequel to this story (well, to the book).
If you want to know, Precious dies in the early nineties. Her son's story does not have a happy ending.
It breaks my heart to hear that there is no happy ending to her story. All the more tragic because she did not give in and give up. Her story is the contemporary American Tragedy.
shareYeah, I was just gonna say something about the other book. It's called The Kid. Things don't get better at all. There was basically like, no hope in that book. So sad.
shareWhat the hell's the point of writing a sequel if you don't give her son a chance?? It's almost like the book, at least, is what one person described the movie as: a pointless misery fest.
shareYep, son had it really tough. I wish it would have been easier for him, but it was just another book of hopelessness.
shareHowever hopeless it may all seem, the author has done the service of informing us of the reality that is out there. We cannot just look the other way.
shareI know for America it seems unrealistic and unfair but in other parts of the world this happens, I know it is hard to think about it but some people live in huge trash dumps or in sewers.
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No. She will die of AIDS. But she can make sure her kids are all right before she goes.
"I'm entitled. Simple. End of.."
I have got to read the sequel. but I like how Precious was able to love her son & never had experienced love from her parents.
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I would like to answer this question in an entirely different way. Now, before I begin, I would like to point out that I am talking not about the book or the sequel, but I am talking strictly about the film. At the end of the film, Precious leaves her mother with her two kids in tow, vowing that her mother will never see them again. What I'd like to say is this: I like to think that the ending belongs to us now. We can decide for ourselves as to whether Precious has a future or not. Sapphire may have created the character. She may have created the structure, but we can finish it. We can take over where she left off. The character Precious doesn't just belong to her anymore, it belongs to us; the public. She gave her to us and since she was kind and thoughtful enough to do that, we can do pretty much whatever we want to do to her. WE are the authors of her life now. We all have imagination. We all have common sense. Your ending may be a little different than mine, but it is yours and yours only. Why? Because that is what you really want; because that is what you chose to see. No one else chose it for you. You chose it yourself and if at any time, you don't like it, you can change it. It's like what Bob Ross, the painter, used to say, "It's your world!" You can make it whatever you like. So, now, I ask you: Do you think Precious should have a future? If you do, then in your world; your story, she does. If you don't think she should have a future, then in your story, she doesn't. It's as simple as that. So what do you say? Does Precious really have a future or doesn't she?
shareAccording to the squal book, she dies from HIV
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Sadly we don't know. HIV was still pretty new in 1987. But in today's world, it would definitely be under good control with Medicine.
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