The Help (Movie)

 Release Date: August 10, 2011
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Tate Taylor
Screenwriter: Tate Taylor
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material)

I watched this movie yesterday after buying the DVD. I've been wanting to watch the movie in a theater, but it's a good thing I didn't. I think I've cried my EYES OUT! At the beginning I was thinking that maybe I shouldn't watch it. Bu then it got interesting. The acting performance was so believable, I kept telling myself that it's just a movie, and I should stop crying, this isn't real, but maybe it is.  

This movie is about a writer who tries to capture The Help's point of view. The Help here being black women or men. They raise the white's children, just to have them being their masters when they grow up. Skeeter is a girl who was studying in New York (I think) and came back to find that the woman who raised gone. Her mother tells her that she retired and went to stay with her family in Chicago. Skeeter doesn't believe that story, but decides to forget about it for now. When she first appears, she gets a job at a newspaper as a journalist. Later on, she contacts someone in New York asking if she could write a book about The Help's point of view. She first tries to interview Aibileen, one of her friend's maid. Later on she gets to interview Minnie, her other so-called-friend's maid. Minnie is so hilarious, she loves to complain, and she's very good at revenge. One of the stories that get included in the book is a story of Minnie taking revenge on her master. Her master, Hilly, fires her for using the house's bathroom, even though truly she didn't. Later on, she comes back with one of her famous pies and gives to Hilly as an apology for what she did. Hilly thinks that Minnie wants to go back to working for her, but then she discovers that the two slices she ate from Minnie's pie are actually made of Minnie's (sorry for the language) shit.

Skeeter needs more stories, but from different women, otherwise her books won't be published. One day, a maid gets caught for stealing a ring that she found on her floor. Of course with the way they treat maids, the cops hit her in the head, and from that day on all the maids are willing to risk their lives and tell their stories.

Skeeter and her mother 

When the books gets published each maid that participated gets part of the money of the book. The last story that the publisher needed was the story of Skeeter's second mother, the one who raised her. Skeeter asks her mother what truly happened, and she finds out that her mother fired the maid because the maid's daughter refused to go the kitchen from the back door. Th president was at her house that day, and asked her to get her out of the house. Skeeter's maid has no choice but to go back to Chicago with her daughter. Later on, Skeeter's family goes looking for the maid, only to find her dead. Skeeter gets very upset, and tell her mother that she broke the maid's heart.

Minnie, Aibileen, and Skeeter. 

I think it's an amazing movie, not just because I'm black, but because I'm a woman. The movie makes you feel like you are part of them, that you are suffering just much as they did. While I was crying on one of the scenes in the movie, and trying to tell myself that this isn't real, my mind kept arguing that this might have actually happened. After all, the blacks were maids, that part is very much real.
I would suggest this movie to anyone who loves a good drama. 

Goodbye for now,
Love,
Angel.