The Help Analysis
Films and novels are effective at presenting representations of social groups in society with the effective use of context to persuade an audience, as well as the issues and ideas which were faced in history or are now faced in the present. The 2011 American Drama film The Help won multiple awards for its construction and delivery. The Help details the African-American maids perspective and their opinions about the white families for which they work. The film is mainly shot in Skeeters perspective who is a white journalist, as she deals with an overprotective mother, sexist behavior from society and an extremely racist community. Context has both been a positive and a negative element in the film as it has affected the way in which people
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The Help has used major issues such as The Civil Rights Movement, the assassination of Medgar Evers and Marin Luther King as these are well known events in the History of America which allow all people to relate which therefore encourages new opinions based around the ideas presented. In one scene where Medger Evers, a popular cicil rights activist is shot, the camera shows a police officer boarding a bus to tell Abileen and another African American who are both seated in the ‘coloured’ section to get off of the bus as it is too unsafe for the whites to sit with the dark skinned people. Abilene and the other man get off the bus and they both run with the fear of being harmed, the camera zooms into Aibileens fear stricken facial expression and her struggle to run with all of her equipment from her work at the Mobelys house encourages empathy from the viewer, as in this scene we are sown the ignorance and obliviousness as well as the sadistic hatred of the white people towards the black people. We are able to see the horrors that the African Americans suffered, how they must have felt and how horrible the white people were. In todays society this is relevant as we are very much focused on gender and race equality as well as anti discrimination which would further the viewer’s disgust to how white people used to behave and how selfish they
The Help has used major issues such as The Civil Rights Movement, the assassination of Medgar Evers and Marin Luther King as these are well known events in the History of America which allow all people to relate which therefore encourages new opinions based around the ideas presented. In one scene where Medger Evers, a popular cicil rights activist is shot, the camera shows a police officer boarding a bus to tell Abileen and another African American who are both seated in the ‘coloured’ section to get off of the bus as it is too unsafe for the whites to sit with the dark skinned people. Abilene and the other man get off the bus and they both run with the fear of being harmed, the camera zooms into Aibileens fear stricken facial expression and her struggle to run with all of her equipment from her work at the Mobelys house encourages empathy from the viewer, as in this scene we are sown the ignorance and obliviousness as well as the sadistic hatred of the white people towards the black people. We are able to see the horrors that the African Americans suffered, how they must have felt and how horrible the white people were. In todays society this is relevant as we are very much focused on gender and race equality as well as anti discrimination which would further the viewer’s disgust to how white people used to behave and how selfish they