The Help commentary

1963. In the city of Jackson, Mississippi, during the segregation between blacks and whites, Aibeleen Clark, an African-American  maid,  tells her life and facts she was confronted with in the book of Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan who dreams to become a writer. During the movie, Skeeter meets a lot of persons such as Minny  or Yule May who are other maids. Elizabeth Leefolt who is Skeeter’s friend and Aibeleen’s employer, hates black  people. All along the movie we’ll see the fight for equality between blacks and whites led by Skeeter…
The movie is really deep, talking about the racist society in the South America, The Help is one of the most controversial movie that we know. When the author released her book, the fight for equality between blacks and whites became more powerful. This movie that shows the real fact, the story of the authors of this book, triggers our sentiments, our emotions gives us a clear insight into the black maid’s life. The Help show a hard reality where people of black skin had no rights, no future and were discriminated. The movie show as well some history facts like Martin Luther King speak. The movie is a movie that helps people to advance, and not fall again into this type of discrimination …

There are various interesting scenes to talk about in this movie but here we are going to comment the moment when Yule Male Ying is being arrested by Jackson’s police at her bus stop.  This scene is a turning point in the movie; black maids realize that they need to write the book because they want Skeeter to change their situation. They have nothing to lose. This scene also shows as well the hatred of white people towards black people. It shows a racist and unfair society against people of black skin in the South of America. The movie shows a certain point of view. In fact we can criticize this movie because this scene isn’t neutral.

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  1. Unknown9 février 2018 à 02:55

    We already like this scene, of curse it's a turning point of this wonderful moovie ! That's a good choice ;)

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  2. Anonyme9 février 2018 à 03:01

    It's very interesting. Thank's to this article it is remembered a lot of memories! very good job my friends! Molène and Benjamin

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