Review 172: The Help
The Help is a sensation and a real love letter to all those black women who were slaves in the Civil Rights era.
Based on the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young white woman who has recently moved back home to her family's plantation after graduating from the The University of Mississippi where she meets and develops a strong friendship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) and together they work on a book from the point of view of the maids (referred to as "the help"), exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.
The plot is too good to describe, its got to be one of the most beautiful and well written adaptations ever done. It beautifully tells us this story of these poor black people and the one white woman who had the courage to do so and we worry for these three people and weather they will make it out o.k. It also ranks with Schindler's List and Milk as one of the best racism films ever made.
The ways The Help is like Schindler's List about the ways good men try to work realistically within an evil system to spare a few of its victims.
Newcomer director Tate Taylor's direction is sensitive, the cinematography is gorgeous, the costumes are colourful, the production design (recreating the 60's) is beautiful, the score by Thomas Newman is marvelous, the make up is brilliant and gets the films tone right, the themes are significant and important, the scenery is breathtaking to look at the sound mixing is precise, there are also some sweet scenes of humor, there are honest scenes of emotion and the ending features some of the most heartbreaking scenes ever in a motion picture.
The acting is superb, I thought Viola Davis is excellent as Aibileen Clark and her performance is part of what makes this film so incredible, Emma Stone is strong as Skeeter, Octavia Spencer deserved that Best Supporting actress oscar, Jessica Chastain is coocky as Celia Foote, Minny's naive employer and Bryce Dallas Howard was excellent as the town's racist, Hilly Holbrook.
The Help is one of the greatest and most heartbreaking films of 2011, should stand as a true example of a proper oscar worthy film and a love letter to "the help".
Comment if you have any ideas or suggestions for this review. 5/5.
The Anonymous Critic
Based on the book The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young white woman who has recently moved back home to her family's plantation after graduating from the The University of Mississippi where she meets and develops a strong friendship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) and together they work on a book from the point of view of the maids (referred to as "the help"), exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.
The plot is too good to describe, its got to be one of the most beautiful and well written adaptations ever done. It beautifully tells us this story of these poor black people and the one white woman who had the courage to do so and we worry for these three people and weather they will make it out o.k. It also ranks with Schindler's List and Milk as one of the best racism films ever made.
The ways The Help is like Schindler's List about the ways good men try to work realistically within an evil system to spare a few of its victims.
Newcomer director Tate Taylor's direction is sensitive, the cinematography is gorgeous, the costumes are colourful, the production design (recreating the 60's) is beautiful, the score by Thomas Newman is marvelous, the make up is brilliant and gets the films tone right, the themes are significant and important, the scenery is breathtaking to look at the sound mixing is precise, there are also some sweet scenes of humor, there are honest scenes of emotion and the ending features some of the most heartbreaking scenes ever in a motion picture.
The acting is superb, I thought Viola Davis is excellent as Aibileen Clark and her performance is part of what makes this film so incredible, Emma Stone is strong as Skeeter, Octavia Spencer deserved that Best Supporting actress oscar, Jessica Chastain is coocky as Celia Foote, Minny's naive employer and Bryce Dallas Howard was excellent as the town's racist, Hilly Holbrook.
The Help is one of the greatest and most heartbreaking films of 2011, should stand as a true example of a proper oscar worthy film and a love letter to "the help".
Comment if you have any ideas or suggestions for this review. 5/5.
The Anonymous Critic
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