MOVIE REVIEW : The Help

Hellooooooo!

So basically I have not been posting any entries for about two days already. My time schedule was quite packed with all the maths pre-tests and and also the debates last week hewhew.

So today I will post a review on a movie that I had watched with all of my friends together with miss jo at the theatrette. Its title is 'The Help'. At first, I thought it was a kind of action or perhaps horror movie ahahhahaha (idk why i was thinking like that) as I didn't know what 'The Help' means. So noob right? XD But it's okay, now I already know that the Help actually means the housekeeper, thanks to that movie tho :)

EMMA STONE's there! And what's your first impression after seeing the poster?

The Help is a story featuring a young girl named Skeeter who has a dream to become a writer after finishing her college years. She tries to start by choosing to interviews the black women who have devoted their time by taking care of prominent white families' children - The Help. She wants to know how they feel all this time when they work for those white families. However, her efforts to interview are not being supported much by her friends and also the helps themselves as they are too scared if their families' safety would be jeopardized if they are willing to do the interview as the Anti-Civil Rights movement is vigorously active at that time. Only Aibileen - one of her best friend's housekeeper - who is willing to do it at last. She takes risk when both of them meet secretly for quite long time before more women decide to come forward and join too. This movie shows how black people have been discriminated from the white society in United States at that time.

WHICH CHARACTER I LIKE THE MOST?

Aibileen Clark, for sure! If I could choose two, I would pick her best friend, Minny Jackson who is also a maid at another house. Unfortunately, due to the extreme hatred towards her, she has been fired after using the same toilet as the family. On that movie, one of the discrimination that we could see is when all the black maids are compulsory to have their own toilet in every household that hire black maids as they believe that these black people bring disease to them. The reason why I like Aibileen is because she is brave enough to face the risks that might come along after she agrees to do the interview with Skeeter. So does her friend, Minny. Even though she quite disagrees with Aibileen's decision on doing the interview at first, but she finally changes her mind after she has been fired by her employer. They tell Skeeter all of their stories from the beginning up until the end without mentioning their employers' names. As time flies, more maids willingly want to help with the interview. Minny's hatred towards white families is fading after she gets a job at Celia's house. Celia treats her with respect and she does not discriminate her at all. At that time, Minny knows that not every white people is bad and she finally accepts Celia and their relationship deepens after that.

This is a great movie!!! Even though it takes 2 hour and a half to finish, but it's worth it. Serious talk. So, I do rate this movie 4.5 out of 5! Go and watch it peeps!

xoxo,
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