The Help by Maud, Jonas and Lou-Anne

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Storyline
In the early 60’s, a young white lady from Jackson, Mississippi, named Skeeter wants to denounce the inequalities between the whites and the blacks. In order to reach her goal, she decides to write a book based on black maids’ testimonies. All along the film she gathers their stories through which the difficulties to live in a world full of racism are exposed. Firstly she asks her friends’ maids to be a part of her project. One of those maids, Aibileen, managed to convince other black women to tell the horror their bosses inflict them. Simultaneously the movie shows the parallel of the rich white women’s idyllic lives and disastrous lives of the blacks.


Review
The spectator is the witness of what is happening in the early 60’s in southern America. The movie provides the spectator with two perspectives: first based on the rich white women’s point of view and then on the black maids’. It allows the viewer to get an idea of the situation and it suggests him to denounce racism. Moreover there are plenty of characters with different personalities which add deepness to the movie. This movie shows the caricatured picture of white women in those times, especially with Miss Hilly's character which denigrate the blacks openly.


Description of a scene

            In the middle of the movie, Skeeter asks Aibeleen to gather several maids to collect as testimonies as possible. First she refuses the request but after thinking about it and because of the arrest of a friend of her she manages to make the maids come to Aibeleen’s house to give Skeeter all the stories she needs. The scene marks a turning point in the plot, showing the solidarity between blacks and whites. This breaks the borders brought by racism and it brings the hope to see a better future based on social mix and equality.

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