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The Help Dana Stevens Analysis
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9 September 2013 In the review of Dana Stevens, "The Help. A feel-good movie that feels kind of icky", she describes some of the strongest and weakest characteristics of the movie, she doesn't hate the film but I am sure that it is not in her favorites movies list. Stevens argues that the public wanted to watch the story in big screen and she declares that it is a good melodrama that contains some funny moments: “It's hard to actively hate The Help, a movie so solicitous of the audience's favor that it can't help but win it some of the time" (775). "There are several solid laughs, and at least two instances when I had to scramble for a tissue"(776). Stevens criticized that the movie is focus in one person (Emma
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