PUSH: BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPPHIRE

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I can tell without reading the book or seeing the movie that there's probably way too much pathology jam packed in this story.

Since I couldn't find my copy of Push last night (I looked EVERYWHERE!) I went to Borders today and got a new copy -- they had some in hardcover, which I was very happy about.

Sidenote: I have now nicknamed the Borders in Silver Spring, MD "Birth Control" because of all the bad ass kids that were running around.

So I started rereading it and remembered that it wasn't as amazing novel as I remembered it fir the reasons I quoted above, plus what the New York Times had to say about it:

No doubt this rapid-fire sequence of horrifying stories is supposed to mean that Precious has finally found a community of friends with shared experiences. Instead, they leave the reader with the feeling that one has abruptly exited the world of the novel and entered the world of a support group. In trying to open out her heroine's story and turn it into a more general comment on society, Sapphire has made the tale of Precious decidedly less moving than it might have been.

I'm still going to go support the movie, though. If what people are saying is true about how they injected more witty/humorous moments into the movie than appeared in the book, it's probably because they were trying to be less depressing and slightly more realistic. (I work in social services where people have shitty lives but witty moments, so I get it)

Final side note: I really don't need to see Mo'nique's tittays jiggling as she runs up the stairs in that full-slip in the promos.