The Help

The Help is a historic drama film directed by Tate Taylor and produced by Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Brunson Green. It was released on the 9th of august in 2011. This movie is inspired by the book written by Kathryn Stockett, the name of which is The Help too. This movie deals about racial segregation in 60’s in Mississippi in America. It’s a real story, the historical context is marked by the black people’s inferiority, the mistreatment done by the white people to them. It’s an emotional movie and its aim is to touch us on the black maids’ horrible working conditions. The story is about Skeeter a young American writer. She decides to write a novel with the maids’ testimony: she wants to open the eyes and denounce racial segregation in the South of America. With Aibileen and Minny’s help she succeeds to write her book.  Around the main characters, a lot of injustice takes place.
This film is a mixt between the humor and the drama. We feel the maids’ pain and thanks to this film we hate the racial mind. It’s so amazing because this film makes us both laught and cries, happiness and anger, love and hate. It’s very surprising; we can see and understand the violence towards people with black skin in 60’s. We feel a lot of affection for Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny but also for Celia Foote, a white young woman. Moreover we can find one of the main concepts in the American cinema; “the kind people” like Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny and “mean people” like Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt. Unfortunately, this American‘s concept gives an overrated side to the historical context of the 60’s.

We have chosen the scene with Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny at Aibileen’s. When Minny accepts to testify against racial segregation that she suffers. This scene is very important because it’s the beginning of the action, problems start. From this moment, all of the black maids want to be free and give their witness to Skeeter. The revolution for the freedom takes shape in the same time the book (The Help) is created.

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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 r...
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Ø   The desegregation is one of the struggles of the President J.F. Kennedy, in the early 1960’s the daily life of the black American population is made of inequality and discrimination in many areas. The struggle and contestation of the civil rights moment eventually resulted in laws. The HELP is a story that takes place in the Mississippi during the 60’s. Kathryn Stockett in her novel, tell a story of a surprising duo. This odd couple is composed of white women who is Skeeter and black women who is Aibileen. Skeeter is a pretty girl who is different than the other women. She is very open-minded unlike the other girl of her age. She is ambitious and she comes from the upper-class. Ø   We all love this movie, we can establish a parallel between ourselves and the characters of the story, and it’s a moving story. Its catch us thanks to the fight of the maids. The film wants to be striking, moralizing and thinking about human conditions more exactly of the black conditions ...
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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. Crit...
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