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A critical review of the film The Help by Léa LE CHANU and Claire DESRUES I-Synopsis The Help is an American drama film, directed and written by Tate Talor in 2011 and inspired by the novel " The Help " from Kathryn Stockett in 2009. The scene takes place in Jackson, a city in Mississippi (USA), at the beginning of the 60’s. We follow the story of a woman: Skeeter Phelan played by Emma Stone. Skeeter is an ambitious young white woman, who has a passion for writing and contrarily of her socialite friends she is interested in her career: she dreams to become a writer. Just after journalism studies, she decides to write a book. Across maids’s stories, she wants to denounce the racism and the segregation. She begins to ask two maids, Aibileen and Minny, two kind-hearted women. In spite of the fear at first, maids accept, and a true mobilization appeared. Many others maids were gathered and mobilized, the Skeeter’s project is a real success. Besides, the book sells good a...

Summary: The help is a novel  publish in 2009 wrote by Kathryn Stockett. The film is adapted by Tate Taylor in 2011. The cast are Viola Davis aka Aibileen, Emma Stone aka Skeeter, Bryce Dallas Howard aka Hilly and Octavia Spencer aka Minny Jackson. The scene takes place in the Mississippi, in Jackson city, during the Civil Right Movement in 1963. The main character "Skeeter",Eugenia Phelan  is a young journalist who goes back to Jackson city because her mother is sick. Skeeter doesn't agree with the racistic attitudes of her friends towards the maid. Skeeter doesn't understand why the white people don't like the black people and why this segregation is happening .The second main character, Skeeter's best friend ,Hilly Walters Holbrook is a young woman, she's president of the Jackson Junior League and active in all sorts of charity. But she is also a horrible person , extremely racist  and a fantastic representation of the South's view during th...

Synopsis:             “The Help” is an American drama film written by Tate Taylor in 2011, which denounce the segregation of black people in Jackson, Mississippi, during the Civil rights movement of the 60’s. The main characters are Viola Davis as Aibileen Clark, Emma Stone as "Skeeter" Phelan, Bryce Dallas Howard as Hilly Walters Holbrook, Octavia Spencer as Minny Jackson, Jessica Chastain as Celia Rae Foote and Allison Janney as Charlotte Phelan. The title refers to black women who work into homes of white people. They clean, baby-sit the children and cook. It talks about the story of a young woman who dreams to be a journalist: Skeeter. She works in a newspaper. She had to write a subject heading about cleaning advices. For that, she asks to her friend’s maid Aibileen, to spend a peace of time with her in order picks up some advices about cleaning. But she had something in mind… She wants to be a skilled journali...

The Help Synopsis:  The story takes place in the city of Jackson, in Mississippi in the United States during the 60's. Skeeter, played by Emma Stone, is a young girl who is politically involved in the fight against the ill-treatment of black maids. She wants to become a writer and the situation of the black people inspires her to write a book. She starts to talk about her project to Aibileen, the maid of Elizabeth Leefolt, who treats her like an animal (for example she doesn't want Aibileen to use the same toilet as her). After that, most of the Jackson’s maids start to help her to write her book. At that time, all black people were at the service of white people: gardeners, maids, cookers... Maids are black women who are in charge of the daily chores in the whites’ houses. They do the housekeeping, they cook, and they raise the children. Review:  In the 60's, black people were treated really differently than today. Inequalities between black and white people w...

Synopsis The help is a film inspired of the book "the help" written by Kathryn Stockett. It was realized by Tate Taylor and it was released in 2011 in the US. It's a comic drama during the 60's in the US during the racial segregation. A white woman named Skeeter dreams to be a writer. As she's revolted about living conditions of helps, she decides to write a collection of help's testimonies. To this end, she needs the support of two helps: Aibileen who accepts immediatly and Minny, more recluctant. Both are scared, but they front of their fears to convince other helps to bear witness their story. The book quickly becomes a best-seller despite whites women mainly miss Hilly who do everything that she can to keep helps under her control. Film review We have each think that it's one of the best films we have ever seen. It mixes comic and drama to denounce the racial segregation and the horrendous conditions of helps during the 60's in the US. It s...

The plot:      “The Help” is an american drama film, producted in 2011 and written by Tate Taylor. This movie was adapted from Kathryn Stockett's novel, which had the same name. This motion picture takes place in the 1963’s Mississipi and talks about the segregation of the Black slaves who work for the rich White society. The story revolves around Skeeter, a young writer, who wants to denounce the conditions of life and relationship they have in their family. She wants to write a book, which tells the Black’s feelings and thoughts about the children they raise instead of their biologic mother. Skeeter will be help by 2 Black women who accepted to give their viewpoint. After a rude fight against the Bourges circle, the books “The Help” will be sold and every one of Mississipi’s State will read it. It’s a big step forward the struggle for Black’s people consideration. Our viewpoint:      This movie is really interesting because it deals with...