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==Plot==
 
==Plot==
Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college eager to become a novelist, but turns her friends' lives and the city of Mississippi upside down when she tries to interview black women who have spent their lives caring for prominent southern families.  
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[[File:3c7d5021-bcc9-413a-9fdb-174de1b0d63b-XXX HELP MOV 03976.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Hilli, her Mother and Minny]]Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college eager to become a novelist, but turns her friends' lives and the city of Mississippi upside down when she tries to interview black women who have spent their lives caring for prominent southern families.  
  
 
Aibileen works hard raising her employer's child (Aibileen's seventh) and keeping her house clean, but none of this distracts her from the recent loss of her own son who died in an accident at work when his white bosses turned away. Two events push Skeeter and Aibileen even closer: Skeeter is haunted by a copy of the Jim Crow laws she found in the library, and receives a letter from a New York publisher interested in Skeeter's idea of writing the true stories of domestic servants.
 
Aibileen works hard raising her employer's child (Aibileen's seventh) and keeping her house clean, but none of this distracts her from the recent loss of her own son who died in an accident at work when his white bosses turned away. Two events push Skeeter and Aibileen even closer: Skeeter is haunted by a copy of the Jim Crow laws she found in the library, and receives a letter from a New York publisher interested in Skeeter's idea of writing the true stories of domestic servants.
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==Controversy==
 
==Controversy==
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Some people criticize about the racism and can not be avoided in this movie. But some people says that "The Help" isn't a ''helpful'' resource on understanding racism at all. Many Americans are turning to literature and film to help educate themselves on race and cultural issues, with the sale of racing books and racism on the rise. The problem, however is that The Help" is not an authentic look at the perspective and experiences of racial injustices faced by black people.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/06/08/the-help-isnt-helpful-resource-racism-heres-why/5322569002/</ref>[[File:Rexfeatures 1661170a.jpg|200px|thumb|Hilli and her friends talking back about Aibileen]]Viola Davis who played as Aibileen Clark in the movie said that she regret about her role.The problem wasn’t the part itself, she stressed; it was how the film, a 1960s-set drama about a white woman (Emma Stone) writing a book about local black maids (one of whom is played by Davis), focused more on white voices than black ones.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/viola-davis-the-help-regret</ref> In the [https://www.usatoday.com/ '''Usatoday'''] she also says "I just felt that… it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard. I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie".<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/06/08/the-help-isnt-helpful-resource-racism-heres-why/5322569002/</ref>
 
Some people criticize about the racism and can not be avoided in this movie. But some people says that "The Help" isn't a ''helpful'' resource on understanding racism at all. Many Americans are turning to literature and film to help educate themselves on race and cultural issues, with the sale of racing books and racism on the rise. The problem, however is that The Help" is not an authentic look at the perspective and experiences of racial injustices faced by black people.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/06/08/the-help-isnt-helpful-resource-racism-heres-why/5322569002/</ref>[[File:Rexfeatures 1661170a.jpg|200px|thumb|Hilli and her friends talking back about Aibileen]]Viola Davis who played as Aibileen Clark in the movie said that she regret about her role.The problem wasn’t the part itself, she stressed; it was how the film, a 1960s-set drama about a white woman (Emma Stone) writing a book about local black maids (one of whom is played by Davis), focused more on white voices than black ones.<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/viola-davis-the-help-regret</ref> In the [https://www.usatoday.com/ '''Usatoday'''] she also says "I just felt that… it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard. I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie".<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/06/08/the-help-isnt-helpful-resource-racism-heres-why/5322569002/</ref>
  

Revision as of 17:05, 16 December 2020

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Novel "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

The Help is a drama movie who released on August 10, 2011 (United States) and directed by Tate Taylor. This movie based on Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel with the tittle "The Help".The Help is a safe film about a volatile subject. Presenting itself as the story of how African-American maids in the South viewed their employers during Jim Crow days, it is equally the story of how they empowered a young white woman to write a best-seller about them, and how that book transformed the author's mother. We are happy for the two white women, and a third, but as the film ends it is still Jackson, Mississippi and Ross Barnett is still governor.[1]

The Help received 5 Nominations and 1 winner including Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Original Song as a nomination and Oktavia Spencer winning Best Performance by An Actress in Supporting Role in Golden Globe Awards (2012).[2]

The Help, Kathryn Stockett's debut novel, tells the story of black maids working in white Southern homes in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and of Miss Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a 22-year-old graduate from Ole Miss, who returns to her family's cotton plantation, Longleaf, to find that her beloved maid and nanny, [3]

Plot

Hilli, her Mother and Minny

Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college eager to become a novelist, but turns her friends' lives and the city of Mississippi upside down when she tries to interview black women who have spent their lives caring for prominent southern families.

Aibileen works hard raising her employer's child (Aibileen's seventh) and keeping her house clean, but none of this distracts her from the recent loss of her own son who died in an accident at work when his white bosses turned away. Two events push Skeeter and Aibileen even closer: Skeeter is haunted by a copy of the Jim Crow laws she found in the library, and receives a letter from a New York publisher interested in Skeeter's idea of writing the true stories of domestic servants.

Skeeter is approaching Aibileen with the idea of writing narratives from the point of view of 12 black maidens. Aibileen brings in her best friend, Minny, a sassy maid who is repeatedly fired for speaking her mind, to tell her story, too. Hearing their stories changes Skeeter as her eyes open to the true prejudices of her upbringing. Along the way In December, Skeeter found out that Constantine, her beloved maid who disappeared mysteriously from Skeeter's life, is dead. After Constantine's daughter, Lulabelle, and Skeeter's (Emma Stone) mother, Charlotte, got into a confrontation, Constantine was fired. She moved to Chicago with Lulabelle and died three months later.At the end of December, Skeeter sends a book manuscript containing the maid's stories, named Help, to Elaine Stein in New York City.

At the end of the day it's a secret about Hilly that Minny shares in Skeeter's book that silences Hilly. The book becomes a strong force in giving a voice to the black maidens, and causes the Jackson community to rethink the carefully drawn boundaries between white and black.

Controversy

Some people criticize about the racism and can not be avoided in this movie. But some people says that "The Help" isn't a helpful resource on understanding racism at all. Many Americans are turning to literature and film to help educate themselves on race and cultural issues, with the sale of racing books and racism on the rise. The problem, however is that The Help" is not an authentic look at the perspective and experiences of racial injustices faced by black people.[4]

Hilli and her friends talking back about Aibileen

Viola Davis who played as Aibileen Clark in the movie said that she regret about her role.The problem wasn’t the part itself, she stressed; it was how the film, a 1960s-set drama about a white woman (Emma Stone) writing a book about local black maids (one of whom is played by Davis), focused more on white voices than black ones.[5] In the Usatoday she also says "I just felt that… it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard. I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie".[6]

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