Review Of the Movie “The Help” “The Help”, it is a movie based on the book which contain testimonials on the experiences of African-American maids. I remembered I read the book before I watched the movie. The thing I know about the book, it was written and published by a white woman and it was told by the black women who were maids in the 1960s. It gave me some assumptions to go with. Before I start, everything that I will bring up are tightly about the movie and the book. It is like a little summary however the reviews I read are really good concerning the movie and the book. The movie was produced in a small town Jackson, Mississippi. Racial tension was so high at that time. The Black women worked not only as maids in that town, but they practically raised white people’s children too. So far, they were seen as “HELP” and were treated inappropriately and poorly. Skeeter, is a young woman who were living in that town. She gets the idea to write a story about these women who were maids, because of her good experience with the black woman who raised her and took really good care of her when her mother was not around. I really liked and enjoyed this movie. It got my attention and made me cry couple of times while watching some parts.
What was so interesting and good about this movie? At the beginning of the movie, the acting was excellent. Viola Davis who played a maid named (Aibileen), she is an amazing woman who was one of the central characters in the movie and Octavia Spencer who played (Minnie), who was Aibileen's best friend who also was a maid. Both have very different personalities, Aibileen’s confidence and Minnie’s impatient and straight forward personality that indicated to me that she wasn’t scared of anything. They both worked for different families but were facing the same problems.
The amazing work both of them did, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer were simply natural on their acting. I can see the two of them actually being good parents and best friend because their conversation and the way they were behaving was as I do with my real friends, the acting was natural and unbelievable. No wonder why the two of them were nominated for best actresses because the way they acted in the movie was impressive all together. Also, Emma Stone who played Skeeter was very awesome. I never seen her in any movies before but in this role, she did very well. It also helped that her beautiful quiet personality made her look more adorable, which it work out very well for the character with a bit of her innocence which the character required to have.
Another actress in the movie who just happen to be one of my favorite actress who came up in the movie. Cicely Tyson, one of my favorite actress who always give precious advice to people, she always make a huge difference in movies. When I saw her, I was so excited and I even I cried a little bit, and that fact alone she is the one who made me like the movie even more. Cicely is the only person who can plays oppressed characters but she stills exultant, no one is better like her and no one can be compare to her, No one! She is so unique for that reason. She played Constantine the maid who raised Skeeter, also she is the master mind of wisdom like only she can be in movies.
I am wondering if Cicely Tyson have to audition for these kinds of roles? Because she does not need any auditions. People need to just insert her on any role that needs to be a wise old woman because she deserved it. Cicely Tyson have been acting for a very long time. She is the best of all and a phenomenal woman. All the supporting characters were also interesting and did an excellent acting.
Moreover, the story was inspiring because it served as an inspiration to the women who worked hard days and nights serving as cooks and second mothers and more. It was very educational once people saw the big picture when everything was included in the movie. These women were not just help or nannies, but people who played an important role in other people's life and those they helped raise; therefore, it was amazingly awesome all together. I think Octavia Spencer’s character was very funny because she brought some excitement to this movie, especially with a pie not a pie in the face but she put human feces in the pie and brought it as a gift to one of her mean bosses, that lightened up the movie a little bit and kept it from feeling very distressing.
I really like this movie; therefore, for a two and half hours it was totally worth it for me, I gave an excellent review to the movie. I like what I have read in the book and what I watched in the movie, and their lives as well.
I also loved the costumes they wore in the movie. I like how people dressed like in the 50s and 60s. The costumes were old fashion, very old style. The men wore the suits with skinny ties and women with those old style dresses. Awesome movie and I am definitely going to finish reading the book because I am done yet.