Set in the Negro heartland of Mississippi and the 1960s, at a time when it was a crime for a white to be seen eating together with a black and the law required the black maids to use a separate wash room outside the house, this film showcases the story of a young modern female journalists, who unlike her mates who are falling dying to be contend with hitching a husband and having kids, tries to interview a few domestic maids for a paper.
We are talking about a time when it is all right for the maid does all the raising the kids while the white bosses do all the socializing and raising funds for kids in Africa when they treated their helpers like dirt. And their helpers have no right even though they are the first to fend for the babies and do all the cooking and chores. It is okay from them to cook and raise their child, but even the law at one stage required households to have separate toilets for domestic helpers as they were feared to harbour many communicable diseases!
Amongst the whites, there are also families who emphasize with the plight of the black helpers. Eugenia Phelan @ Miss Skeeter, a journalist, empathises for these maids as she was practically by her black nanny when her mother was busy with social work.
Aibileen is another character in the film who carries on life carrying a heavy burden of losing her only child and the constant mistreatment by her bosses. Minny, a fantastic cook earned herself a reputation of being a difficult employee with her constant answering back and is finding difficult to gain employment as her reputation preceeded her.
Among there is an immature white lady who is octraziced by the rest of town for stealing somebody's husband. She employs Minnie to learn to cook and is indirectly able to fight off her depressive illness. And there is the issue of Skeeter's maid who brought her up who went missing from her house.
Ms Skeeter plans to ink in a book the experiences and misadventures of the maids in a book. Even though initially only Aibileen came forward to volunteer information. After a fall of a local Negro boy, more maids line up to relate their respective experiences. The final product is a book called 'The Help'which upset many the uppity madams. The author of the book is mentioned as 'Anonymous' but it was Aibileen who did the writing. She is fired from her job and she leaves the white child that she cares for in an emotional scene vowing to change her life with her new found talent.
Octavia Spencer gave a stellar performance as maid with so many pent up emotions which earned with awards all over the world.
This movie also gives all Americans a feel good pat on the back for being able to change their social structure of treating their coloured from a second class citizen to finally putting him at a pedestal which is considered the pinnacle of the American Dream- The White House occupant!
Nominated for and won many awards.
We are talking about a time when it is all right for the maid does all the raising the kids while the white bosses do all the socializing and raising funds for kids in Africa when they treated their helpers like dirt. And their helpers have no right even though they are the first to fend for the babies and do all the cooking and chores. It is okay from them to cook and raise their child, but even the law at one stage required households to have separate toilets for domestic helpers as they were feared to harbour many communicable diseases!Amongst the whites, there are also families who emphasize with the plight of the black helpers. Eugenia Phelan @ Miss Skeeter, a journalist, empathises for these maids as she was practically by her black nanny when her mother was busy with social work.
Aibileen is another character in the film who carries on life carrying a heavy burden of losing her only child and the constant mistreatment by her bosses. Minny, a fantastic cook earned herself a reputation of being a difficult employee with her constant answering back and is finding difficult to gain employment as her reputation preceeded her.
Among there is an immature white lady who is octraziced by the rest of town for stealing somebody's husband. She employs Minnie to learn to cook and is indirectly able to fight off her depressive illness. And there is the issue of Skeeter's maid who brought her up who went missing from her house.
Ms Skeeter plans to ink in a book the experiences and misadventures of the maids in a book. Even though initially only Aibileen came forward to volunteer information. After a fall of a local Negro boy, more maids line up to relate their respective experiences. The final product is a book called 'The Help'which upset many the uppity madams. The author of the book is mentioned as 'Anonymous' but it was Aibileen who did the writing. She is fired from her job and she leaves the white child that she cares for in an emotional scene vowing to change her life with her new found talent.
Octavia Spencer gave a stellar performance as maid with so many pent up emotions which earned with awards all over the world.
This movie also gives all Americans a feel good pat on the back for being able to change their social structure of treating their coloured from a second class citizen to finally putting him at a pedestal which is considered the pinnacle of the American Dream- The White House occupant!
Nominated for and won many awards.
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