The Help is a Comedy-Drama movie directed by Tate Taylor. It is about a young lady named Skeeter and her relationship with two black maids during the Civil Rights period in the early 1960's. Skeeter is a journalist who wants to write a book from the point of veiw of the maids, exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for the white families.
At first it is hard for Skeeter to convince the maids to tell her their stories as if they are caught they would be punished or maybe even killed. After being mistreated by the families they work for they decide that their storys need to be heard and talk to Skeeter. Skeeter writes a draft of the stories and sends it to the editor who informs Skeeter that she will need more than two maids stories to get the book published. After a black man is shot in their community the black maids decide that their voice needs to be heard and they are all prepared to tell their stories to Skeeter. Skeeter completes the book and it is published and is a great success. Skeeter then shares the profits of the books equally and some of the maids never have to work again.
This movie is heartrenching at times exposing the truth of racial separation and also funny in parts, exposing what it was really like to be either black or white and how different their lives were from each other.
See my comment on your first review.
ReplyDeleteI want you to go back and re-do these pieces as basically you have cut and pasted info off the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help_(film)
It is your review - so, some of the info is relevant but it really needs to be about what you thought of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help_(film)
ReplyDeleteI can tell you have read this, and taken most of your sentences from it.