The Help by Camille and Antoine

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The synopsis :
The Help is a novel which was writed by Kathryn Stocket and adapted in a drama movie by Tate Taylor, presented to Americans in 2011. Principal ac tors are Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. This story takes place in Jacskon, a little city of Mississippi, during the 60’s: the area of civil rights. At this time, there was a racial segregation between Black and White people: the Blacks were juged lower and in White people’s orders. Emma Stone, in Skeeter’s place, is determined to be a writer. So shocks by what happened in her society, she decides to write a book about this racial segregation, in the point of view of Blacks. For help her, she asks two Black maids who’s called Aibileen, plays by Viola Davis, and Minny, by Octavia Spencer. She wants them to tell their stories, spent their lives which are devoted to take care of prominent southern families.

The scene : Aibileen’s home
In this film, there are many important scene. But for me, the most important is the second scene in the kitchen of Aibileen. During this scene, Skeeter is coming secretly at Aibileen’s home, because Black and White people can’t see each other. She wants her to spent her story. At the start, Aibileen is perplexed and don’t talk a lot. But, with the time, she starts little by little to tell some anecdotes of her help to white people. This scene represents the start of the writing of Skeeter’s book, the start of her very important and incredible project, which will lead to the creation of polemics in the society of this little city. Furthermore, she shows us a strong relationship with many conversations and laughs, between a White and a Black women: is a large contrast with what happened in the real society.

The critic :
This movie, The Help, allow us to understand the relationship between Black and White people. We can learn there was a big different of lifestyle between this two categories of people with only differents of skin’s colors.  She allows to discover the racial segregation in the 60’s and imagine the different way of thinking. However, characters are very caricatural, especially white women, who use eccentric attitude and lots of gestures, and always mistreat Black maids. The story treat a very important subject with satirical humor and touching situations.

This film can remind of the story of Rosa Parks, what happened to her in the bus because of her skin’s color, and of the fight which lead during her life. 

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