The Help is a safe film about a volatile subject. Presenting itself as the story of how African-American maids in the South viewed their employers during Jim Crow days, it is equally the story of how they empowered a young white woman to write a best-seller about them, and how that book transformed the authors mother. We are happy for the two white women, and a third, but as the film ends it is still Jackson, Mississippi and Ross Barnett is still governor. The story, based on Kathryn Stocketts best-seller, focuses on Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a recent college graduate who comes home and finds she doesnt fit in so easily. Stone has top billing, but her character seems a familiar type, and the movie is stolen, one scene at a time, by two other characters: Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer). ~ by Roger Ebert August 9, 2011
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:00:00 +0000
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