The Help
If you have not been fortunate enough to see The Help yet, I would strongly advise that you put it down on your wish list, or you rent it out soon. It is a well written, acted and produced film, that tells a story of racial inequality, women’s circles and class wars, in a very moving and humorous manor. It is set in 1950’s in Jackson, America, and follows the lives of a group of suburban house wives and their ‘Help’, which is the name given to the black maids at the time.
The story is an absolute gem, and leaves you feeling happy inside, after a long emotional journey which highlights the problems faced at that point in time with different class and race issues. Emma Stone plays an excellent role as a young writer who goes against the grain in her small group of stuck up, ignorant friends. She decides that she wants to write a book to tell the stories of the maids, which at the time had no voice in society at all. It follows the daily struggle of their lives, and the quiet dignity that they had to conduct themselves with.
One of the hardest things for me to deal with when watching this film was the racist behavior which the young white wives showed to their black maids. It is difficult to understand how this type of treatment was allowed to happen, and listening to some of the horrifying things they would say was sometimes difficult to take. I always find it interesting to see how people operated and thought in past times, and find it amazing to think that people actually thought it was OK to go around acting and thinking as they did. The film is well balanced and has great characters in it, in particular the two main maids in the story. There are no real male characters in the story, as presumably they are always out at work selling office furniture, but the story is not about them, it is about the women of the time.
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