The Help

[buckaroo]

Went to the movies this afternoon and the wife and I watched The Help. I finally agreed to go see this movie after the wife nagged me. It was going to be this movie, or the 3D shark movie. The Help won out. Yes, it's a chick flick, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. There is one scene in which the mother of one of the snobby girls comes out of a party and tells her daughter that she will always remember two things. This is a very funny moment in the movie and you'll have to go see the movie to see what that was. There were times when I wished that I could have reached out and grabbed some of those women and slapped them silly.

The movie is about a young, white girl socialite from Mississippi who decides to write a book about how black women feel about working for white families during the violent 60s. My wife had a black maid during that time and told me that her family didn't experience anything like the movie, but that was in NC. As for myself, I grew up in rural Oklahoma and didn't see a black person until my early teens so I didn't have anything to compare the movie with.

I recommend this movie to everyone. You'll cry, you'll laugh and you'll just plain enjoy the movie.

 

[Benevolent One]

Thanks for the heads up. I will try to check that out.

 

[Greg]

How do the women in the movie look?

 

[buckaroo]

How do the women in the movie look?

Black and white. The white women look very uppity. The black women look very normal, some fat, some thin, some tall, some short, some cute, some not so cute. The main white character is Emma Stone.