I don’t normally post movies on here, unless it’s a free one. But I had to do a post about this particular movie because I enjoyed it so much.  I have been waiting for The Help to arrive in theaters for months.  I saw the previews a while ago and was so excited to see the movie.  The movie, The Help, is based on a novel written by Katheryn Stockett.  Unfortunately, I haven’t read the book, but it is on my reading list.  I heard the book was excellent. 

But I’m here to tell you that movie was excellent as well.  Last Wednesday, I saw the movie and loved it from beginning to the end.  I laughed and I cried.  The movie is set in Jackson, Mississippi which was the middle-class heart of the Deep South during the 1960s.  It tells the story of Aibileen’s and her best friend, Minny who are maids that come together to share their stories of what it’s like for a black maid during the Jim Crow days of the south. 

Emma Stone is Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. The child of the late 1950s has become an adult in the 1960s. Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, she has seen her share of racial injustice. The story at the heart of The Help concerns Skeeter’s capturing the life story of the maids who literally raise the children of Jackson and the picture painted is painful, powerful and penetrating in its depiction of the time’s racial divide.

The main characters are two maids played by Octavia Spencer (as Minny( and Viola Davis (as Aibileen). Both actresses rivet in their portrayals in different ways. The two are clearly close friends, bonded by neighborhood and necessity. But their friendship runs deep and only deepens as the two recount their lives for Skeeter. The real heroes of The Help are Minny and Aibileen. It is their story, along with the almost line-less cast of maids who may or may not come together to ensure Stone’s character has fully captured the essence of what it is like to be a repressed soul living in the civil rights hot spot of Jackson, Mississippi.

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Here is a trailer of the movie.

I know a lot of controversy surrounds this movie, the book, the writer and the maid.  But trust me, the movie will not leave you disappointed.