The Help

The movie was released on August 10, 2011, and directed by Tate Taylor. The production company was Touchstone Pictures. The main characters of the movie are Skeeter, Aibileen, Hilly, Minnie, Celia, Charlotte, Johnny, Constantine, Yule, and Mae. The Help took place in the early 1960’s in Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer. She decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Little does she know by doing these interviews she turns her friend’s lives and a Mississippi town upside down. Aibileen, Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black
The first one is Achievement and Success because the daughter goes to college, graduates and comes home thriving to be a writer. The second one is Activity and Work because clearly the white Americans worked. The white Americans could afford to pay maids to work for them. The maids were hard workers as well because they had to make a living for their families too. The third one is Progress. I feel like based on the movie and the times we live now we have come along ways. Slavery was abolished and blacks could live a more normal life and not have to continue as someone’s maid. The fourth one is Equality. For decades-long fighting for equality for women failed to yield lasting effects for all women. Black women mainly were still under culturally embedded discrimination more than a hundred years after the fight for women’s equality was first collectivized. The last one is Individualism. I feel like this movie portrayed most woman as being very independent and very self-reliant. Most of the woman mainly the maids had no one else to depend on but
I just cannot understand how women can be mistreated in a way that it’s just sickening. The unequal treatment the maids received by white people just makes no sense. The movie began with a stirring question being asked of Aibileen (Viola Davis) of “what does it feel like to raise a white child when your own children were at home being looked after by someone else?” Simply asking a black woman to explain her inner thoughts was revolutionary for the 1960s. However, the opportunity was for the maids to gather to voice their ridicules of their white employer oppressors and a further look back to the pioneers who pushed for the break from the oppression that was so very important. For the women in The Help, the struggles were obvious and society would be foolish to say that equal opportunities are characteristic in the realities of our modern