The Help
Directed by: Tate Taylor
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Rated: PG-13 for thematic material
Based on Kathryn Stockart’s popular novel, the film The Help captures the struggle of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s from the perspective of the house maids in the southern town of Jackson, Mississippi. There, a young woman named Skeeter comes face-to-face with the injustice of her community’s treatment of African Americans after interviewing two of her friends’ housemaids. Like most literary movies, the film has far too many characters and subplots to really convey in a synopsis, nevertheless for it’s two and a half hour run-time, but really that’s probably the worst thing you can say about the movie. The acting is stellar, especially Oscar front-runner Viola Davis, who proves that her heart-stopping performance in the movie Doubt wasn’t a fluke. Right behind her is Victoria Spencer, who easily has the most dynamic character of the film, but still plays it with precision. But even some of the lesser-known roles are terrific, from the infuriating Bryce Dallas Howard to the ditzy Jessica Chastain, who continues to prove my theory that she deserves an Oscar nomination for every film she’s performed in this year. In fact, the weakest link of the movie is the lead character, Emma Stone’s Skeeter, who is unfairly paired with Davis and Spencer for most of the film, exposing her inabilities. But the power and emotion of the film doesn't come from it's performances but from it’s understanding of humanity; that more important then one’s skin color is one’s character and integrity, and that love for humanity is the most important trait a person can have.
Watch the awful trailer for this wonderful movie here
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Rated: PG-13 for thematic material
Based on Kathryn Stockart’s popular novel, the film The Help captures the struggle of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s from the perspective of the house maids in the southern town of Jackson, Mississippi. There, a young woman named Skeeter comes face-to-face with the injustice of her community’s treatment of African Americans after interviewing two of her friends’ housemaids. Like most literary movies, the film has far too many characters and subplots to really convey in a synopsis, nevertheless for it’s two and a half hour run-time, but really that’s probably the worst thing you can say about the movie. The acting is stellar, especially Oscar front-runner Viola Davis, who proves that her heart-stopping performance in the movie Doubt wasn’t a fluke. Right behind her is Victoria Spencer, who easily has the most dynamic character of the film, but still plays it with precision. But even some of the lesser-known roles are terrific, from the infuriating Bryce Dallas Howard to the ditzy Jessica Chastain, who continues to prove my theory that she deserves an Oscar nomination for every film she’s performed in this year. In fact, the weakest link of the movie is the lead character, Emma Stone’s Skeeter, who is unfairly paired with Davis and Spencer for most of the film, exposing her inabilities. But the power and emotion of the film doesn't come from it's performances but from it’s understanding of humanity; that more important then one’s skin color is one’s character and integrity, and that love for humanity is the most important trait a person can have.
Watch the awful trailer for this wonderful movie here
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