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One of the best movies I've ever seen.
In fact, one of the best conservative movies I've even seen.
- The "single mother" theme, unlike the liberal "Murphy Brown" propaganda, is revealed as a horrible, horrible thing.  In other words, Dan Quayle was right.
- People all around her urged her to get an abortion, and she did not.  She's a teenager who has been raped by her own father (who was not married to her mother), and yet, like Sarah Palin knowing she had a child with Down's Syndrome, she "chose life" –– resisting all the liberal do-ggoders around her.  You can't get more of an anti-abortion, pro-life theme than that.
- You needed to watch until the end to get the uplifting part.  Precious was one of 2009's trilogy of movies about the redemptive power of parental love.

In Blind Side, an illiterate kid with no parents, no place to sleep, absolutely no hope to ever amount to anything in life, with the deck totally stacked against him –– no future, no hope, no prospects –– is taken in for no reason other than pure Christian charity.  In the end, unconditional parental love (choosing/deciding to love a child for no good reason) transforms the boy's life.  (The Christian motivation was downplayed for political correctness, in my opinion.  The real life characters were and are devoutly religious.  I am an atheist, but I thought it was dishonest to not feature that more prominently.)

In The Road, an eight-year-old boy with everything against him, in a post-apocalyptic world that is as bleak and horrible as the writer can imagine (including rampant cannibalism), is protected and loved by his father, who tries to teach him about conservative "values" like knowing the difference between "right" and "wrong."  In the very first scene, the father looks at his son and declares that the boy is proof of God's existence.  At the end, the father dies, and the child really is helpless and hopeless, and doomed to die (and probably be eaten).  At that moment, along come some strangers, who for no good reason other than unconditional love and it's the "right" thing to do, take the boy in to be part of their own family.

In Precious, a girl who has everything going against her that the writer can think of (as another poster put it, just when you think it couldn't possibly get worse, it gets worse), is redeemed by adults who act like parents, and take an interest in her –– most notably Mariah Carey as the social worker, and Paula Patton as the teacher (and if she ain't hot, you ain't paying attention; she is hot!)  They have faith in her; they love her even though she is one of the most unlovable people in the world –– fat, ugly, illiterate –– and at the end, she is determined to fight against her fate, and not be a welfare queen like her despicable mother  She learns how to read and write.  She takes parenting classes, so that her children can have the parental love that she never had.  It is one of the most spiritually uplifting stories ever.  And as I said –– it's a conservative movie:  the welfare system hurts; it doesn't help.  The public schools system hurts; it doesn't help.  The welfare state is degrading and dehumanizing.  Isn't that what we have been telling liberals for years?

Watch it again, all the way through.  Powerful movie.