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On Precious and why stories need to be told

By TF | Published: March 3, 2010

Lee Daniels’ critically lauded film Precious is, in an Aristotelian framework, a comedy. It is about the rise in fortune of a lower class individual who the audience finds sympathetic – and it has a happy ending [had Aristotle's commentary on Comedy survived we'd no doubt have more to work with, but that's about the best we've got]. Of course, [...]

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