THE HELP

1) The summary of the help
Firstly, the movie takes place in Mississippi during the 60's. All the plot is a confrontation between blacks and whites.
On the one hand, the main character is Skeeter, an independent white young lady, who belongs to a social group which is really wealthy and where most of women are racists. Even if Skeeter comes from the upper class, she isn't like her friends or her mother. Effectively, she wants to become a journalist. Her determination and open mind will help her.
On the other hand, there are the black maids, who are segregated and obey white employers' orders.
It's the reason why, Skeeter wants to change. She doesn't agree with that because she considers it unfair. She wants to change the rules to improve the working conditions of the maids. So she would like blacks and whites to be on an equal foot. To succeed in this ambitious project, she will interview several maids in order to make an article. The aim is to publish it in broad daylight.

2) Criticism of the movie
Secondly, we are going to give our opinion about the film.
On the one hand, we like a lot of things in the movie. Effectively, we loved the several characters especially all the maids and Skeeter. They were really determined to do their best in order to reach their aim together. That's why they were really endearing. Then, we liked the lovely baby who was grown up by warm hearted Aibeleen. Even if her mother doesn't care about her. What's more, we loved Skeeter's ambition and her understanding behaviour. It proves that she is different and open-minded, it's a real life lesson.
On the other hand we dislike when Yule May Dave was hurt by a policeman with a truncheon. We can add that we didn't like when Constantine was fired because of her great age and the pressure of the white girls group on Skeeter's mother. It was a sad and affecting moment.

Thirdly, this movies was quite realistic. Actually, the staging was really good, some of the characters played key word for the success of this film, such as Skeeter and Aibeleen. They deliver their feeling to us. All of this, make this film realistic.

3) An important scene
To our mind, the most important and powerful scene was when all the maids gathered in Aibeleen's lounge. Actually, Yule May was hurt by a policeman, it caused the rebellion of all the other maids. That's why, they decided to testimony about what they underwent to Skeeter for the redaction of a revolutionary book.
At the end they reach their purpose. The book was published, everybody read it. This one denounce all the unfairness underwent by the maids during uncountable decades and it represent a revenge for the black women.


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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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