Final Film Critique: The Help

Final Film Critique: The Help

Introduction

Film The Help is the combination of tragedy and drama. The movie is the adaptation of the novel The Help written by Kathryn. The word Help in the movie defines the maids who help in white people homes. The film revolves around the relationship of a white woman Eugenia (Skeeter) Phelan wither maid who left when she was away for her studies. The film illustrates the era of Civil Rights in the early 1960's. The main theme of the film is discrimination of African-Americans in United States. The film starts with the main character Skeeter who is a college graduate who just returned home with the graduation degree.

She is a journalist, and she decides secretly write a book named “help”. Her aim is to expose the life of Black-Americans who face difficult and miserable life. Her main focus is to point African-American women who clean, cook, and bring up white children, and still facing difficulties and mess. The character Aibileen involves in the scene who is the maid of Skeeter's best friend Elizabeth. She takes care of everything including raising Elizabeth's daughter. Aibileen agrees to talk to Skeeter for her book. Skeeter's second interviewee is another maid Minny. She worked for Hilly, but because of Hilly's manipulations she left and now working for Celia. Hilly and her friends think that Celia is a white trash. Hilly Holbrook can be called villain of the film.

The film gets interesting when maids get the courage and come forward when racial issue increases and tragedy strikes in neighborhood. Black women daringly tell the stories for a book. They narrate stories of abuse and institutionalized racism. The story swivels around Mississippi maids.

Plots, Aibileen Clark is 40-50 years old she spends her life bringing up children but, she lost her son recently. Minny Jackson is famous maid for best cooking. She is outspoken and fire many times by employers. Eugenia “Skeeter” is the main character who is a university graduate and wants to buildup career in writing. In the next section, we will examine both the negative, as well as the positive aspects of “The Help”.

Discussion & Analysis

The movie is entirely based on the discrimination of racism. The African-American are facing difficulties in America, and they are treated ruthless. Maids who help in house treated like animals. There are some scenes in the movie that tells that how Black-Americans treated in the Jackson-Mississippi. Perhaps the greatest benefit offered by The Help is that it aids in remembering. Race relations have changed so radically in America over the last half-century that it's difficult for today's young to grasp how contentious and hate-filled things were, especially in the deep South, during the later years of Jim Crow. We have not achieved true racial harmony or equality in 2012, but the overt, ugly bigotry that permeated parts of society during the early 1960s has been largely vanquished. It still festers in the hearts and minds of some, often subtly, but it ...