The movie: The Help, review written by Victor LY and Pierre ESLINE

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Our pitch:
The Help is a period historical drama made by Tate Taylor in 2011. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name which was written by Kathryn Stockett. The main casting is mainly comprised of the very famous Emma Stone at the main character’s role and Viola Davis at the main black woman of the movie. The story deals with racial segregation in the USA. It tells the story of Skeeter’s fight against this segregation. She wants to write a book with the point of view of black maids: the two main women will be Aibileen and Minnie who are going to rebel in order to have a better treatment.

Our review:
The Help is a very touching movie which enables to make you think about the black people’s life conditions. This thematic is pretty committed, original and deals with problematics, obviously less present, but unfortunately always here nowadays.  You will be transported by a lot of emotions during the film, it was our case.  The film will satisfy everybody: funny scenes, sad’s ones, even romance, maybe the action’s lovers will miss some adrenaline during the film but will still appreciate The Help. About the movie itself, the actors are very convincing: you will want to help and defend characters; and hate other ones (hello Miss Hilly). On the whole, the film is very good, maybe not the year's best film, but really interesting.

The most important scene:

One of the most important scenes of the movie was, for us, the third scene on the bus. We can see Yule May Davis, new Hilly’s maid arrested by policemen. She has stolen Miss Hilly’s ring to allow her twins to go to college… Actually, she was a good maid and asked Miss Hilly to lend her only 75$, but Miss Hilly refused and didn’t hesitate to put the maid behind bars. That story shows the perfidy of Miss Hilly. But that scene is very important for the pitch. After that story, a lot of maids decide to speak for Skeeter’s book. That scene unfreezes all the plot of the film around the different maids’ stories needed to publish the book.
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