THE HELP

The help is a drama film that takes places in the Mississippi in the early 1960s, directed and written by Tate Taylor in 2011. The story deals with a young white woman, named Skeeter who is a journalist. She imagines this story to denounce the segregation between black maid and wealthy women about the horrible working conditions of the domestics during the 60’s.  Skeeter wants to write a book, about the domestics. For that she interviews, firstly two domestics Aibileen and Minny. Finally there are a lot of maids, who accept to tell their story.
The help is very moving; but it’s surprising because it’s a mixt between humor and drama. It is interesting because it shows the truth of the maids’ life during the 60’s. Their lives were very difficult because their working conditions and the treatment by the white women like Miss Hilly. Thanks to this film, we can learn too much of the America history and the segregation during this time. The actors interpret really well their roles. The casting is very wonderful. Emma stone is very nice in the main female white character, in the role of Skeeter Phelon. She interprets wonderfully the open-minded young lady. She is quite rebel. Octavia Spenser is very good in the role of Minny Jackson; her character is warm hearted woman like the person who was.
The scene selected is the scene when Minny, Miss Hilly’s maid, gives a “chocolate” pie to her. Miss Hilly is very happy about this present, but she doesn’t know the surprise, the bad surprise. In reality, it’s not a delicious pie but a shit pie. It’s a poisoned gift. In the beginning of this scene, Miss Hilly likes the pie but when Minny tells her “Eat my shit” it was very funny. Indeed, Minny finally took her revenge, and it’s that fact of the scene we enjoy. Miss Hilly is caught out her own game. In seeking to separate the toilet’s maid and toilet’s white people, finds himself to eat some shit.

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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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