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  Lee Daniels wants to make films that cause people to think deeply. He tells character driven, authentic stories...

  The term black cinema is thrown about like a disposable napkin by the media. It's a way of categorizing certain movies that are deemed to be less marketable outside of the African American community. But I think Lee Daniels' films speak to a wider audience. They deal with universal subject matters, like lonelyness or the yearning to be loved. His films resonate with an ever present candid openness.

With his latest artistic endeavor, "Precious," he doesn't detour from his truthful, completely honest form of story telling, adapting the novel "Push" by Sapphire. Lee coddles the story with the skill of a neurosurgeon.  Never missing a beat of emotion. Precious is told with a rawness and sense of pain seldom conveyed in traditional Hollywood cinema.

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