The Help ,is a delicious stew spicy home-cooked meals, 1960-style racism in the South, serving a plate full of sentiment, which has troubled us, and what to heal. Nauru, which was in thick as sauce, proves to be a secret ingredient - turning what should feel-bad movie about these difficult times in a movie Hot surprise.The flavored with a lot of work to outline a great sprawling port Viola Davis Emma Stone and passionate heart of the film, where the scene-steal Octavia Spencer, and the smell of the sweet-tart Jessica Chastain, fortunately, are never far away.
Since we generally prefer not to be reminded of the darkest chapters of our history is a risky business to take us back - even with a fictional narrative - in Jackson, Mississippi, at a time when African Americans were still serving class . As part of the white family as a weekly bridge club and church on Sundays, had black servants often loved, most often exploited and almost always taken for granted. Evers Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar was there, stirring things in the season of fear, but the kitchen Jackson, things were bound to simmer.
In this context, "help" takes us inside an unlikely rebel. It all starts when new Ole Miss Grad Skeeter (Stone) comes home and tries to convince women who cook and clean and raise babies to tell their stories and secrets. She has a career as a publisher on his mind, they have the unpleasant truths, and the redemption of their own. For both sides, it becomes a test of courage and conviction, said in a sort of Capra-esque style, and I think the best way possible.
Seller Kathryn Stockett has been the writer-director Taylor Tate hard to chew. Born and raised in Jackson, have been friends for a long time and you can feel this connection in the care with which Taylor is close to the material, but reverence is exactly what the trip to end. As a result, the film exists in a landscape charged with emotion, sometimes too stark black and white - no room for ambiguity in this table.
Taylor, with deep roots in the South, insisted on filming on location, eventually find the back who was trying to Greenwood, Mississippi photography Stephen Goldblatt, whose keen sense of the South has earned him an Oscar nomination for 1991 is " The Prince of Tides, "over it, giving even the dirt and rotting wooden houses in a kind of diaphanous beauty usually reserved for plantation-style mansions. Production designer Mark Ricker ("Julie & Julia") corresponds in kind - a man who knows his way around the kitchen because it is an asset in the kitchen many films takes place.
While much of the action happens in the kitchen, the bathroom is becoming the testing ground for morality - and deliver some of the funniest moments of the film. That "help" can take the issue incendiary "separate but equal" bathrooms and turn into a series of hilarious gags, taking into account the underlying pain of discrimination, represents a kind of Hollywood comedy I had forgotten how do so. You know, the guy who makes us laugh while going to the heart of the matter, and comes as a blessed relief cutesy obscenity in the work became the norm. Skeeter nine local newspapers, a letter of rejection from a publisher in New York and the unexplained absence of Constantine, the housewife who grew up, things in motion. From the beginning, is incompatible with the world, amounting to - childhood friends grown and married life are busy replicating his polished silver mothers, well behaved children and dinner on the table six.
See the world itself, but the wounded, and the eye is much wiser Aibileen (Davis), a Skeeter recruits to help him clean up his advice column, writing on paper. Ambition and vision are dangerous combination, and as soon as Skeeter wants to make a book from the waiter real life 'stories - terrible things, secrets, the deep ties and deeper the pain that they share with their families, who often spend their lives work, but the Century 60, Jackson, the word is not free, and speaking position. the possibility of losing much more than just a job, which is quite valuable.
Skeeter has always been without a pea pod, which makes it perfect for the authenticity Stone brand. This is the actor, who gives generously of his jaw drop and roll eyes, but the most natural way. Tired of the world is the exact opposite Aibileen newly minted skeptic. Davis, carrying the weight of history, every move that I feel pain Aibileen aging knees as he bent to comfort a crying child, and a sadness that hangs over his eyes, even if they are crinkled with laughter.
