THE HELP

Synopsis

The help is a movie directed by Tate Taylor based on the novel of Kathryn Stockett.
The movie came out in 2011 in USA.
The scene takes place in Mississippi during racial segregation, in 60'S.
The main characters are Skeeter, the main female white, she wants to become writer.
Aibileen is a black woman, she is warm hearted and ill-treated by her employers.
There are others characters like Minny Jackson, Celia Foot and Hilly Holbrook.
In the movie the situation is very difficult because the problem of segregation put barriers between blacks and whites.
To solve this problem, Skeeter interviews blacks women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.
Althougt, in the historical context, to solve this problem the president John Kennedy fought against the racial segregation. He had launched a program to improve the living conditions of the most deprived as well as the civil rights of the Black-American citizens.

Critique du film

The movie is very interesting because it shows the real conditions of the blacks women during the segregation. For the students, this movie can brings an important historical knowledge. The Help looks very realist and credible.
There are some scenes which arouses violent feelings. For instance, the scene on the bus whose Yule May is arrested by the policemen because she steels a ring in her employers's house. It important for the progress of the movie because it's the moment whose the maid are decided to rebell against the whites families. As we said of the beginning, the scene is useful for show the aspect of the violence on the blacks maid women.
Despite that, we enjoyed watch The Help, because there are nice moments like the moment whose Minny brings a (shit) pie to Hilly Holbrook.
Although, there are emotional moments as the scene with Mae Mobley and Aibileen at the end whose Elizabeth Leefolt send her. The little girl cry because she doesn't want that Aibileen leaves the house.


Choix argumenté d'une scène

We have chosen the scene in which Aibileen is talking to Skeeter about her dead son.
In this scene, Aibileen is explaining that her son is dead because of his whites employers. She is saying that a woman is making his son on a truck to go on color hospital. When he is arriving on hospital, the dotors said: " We can't do anything" Aibileen wants to get his son in her house for his last moments and he died in front her.
He was just 24 years old. Each year, the day of his birthday, Aibileen can't breathe. She says that she would like to jump off a bridge.
Aibileen wants to stop all that they wrote.

This scene allows us to be more close than Aibileen. We love this scene because it is very emotional and important in the film. 



Commentaires

  1. Unknown9 février 2018 à 02:56

    It's a very interesting summary of this moovie, we also like the part of the scene critic :)

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  2. Le duo P.A at Théo9 février 2018 à 03:02

    Very good but more explications can be put for the scene chosen (Why is it more important than the other scenes ?)

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  3. Anonyme9 février 2018 à 03:03

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

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