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Movie review of The Help



I am sure this is going to win some oscars.
Central character of Abiridin is Ms Miller from "Doubt", where in her small role she outshone everyone.

In this movie she is a narrator. I liked the movie because

1. period drama, costumes and music and social norms captured beautifully
2. Job of Nanny was upgraded to something where they make children confident. Skeeter has memories of her nanny giving her emotional support when she is not picked at PROM and similarly the you kid moleby is made to feel important by his nanny. A very good depiction of child psychology
3. But daughter of Miny, Sugar who is forced out of school into job represents what goes wrong with black kids who are hard working
4.Separate church , separate restaurant, separate club... it reminded me of once prevalent untouchable in India. West never stops of lecturing us on unapproachability but we had that more as a tradition, we could eat food grown by their lab-our and could make them produce goods for us but could not involve them in actual cooking of food or religious rites
5. Here the hypocrisy goes a step further, they are allowed in kitchen, actually tend for kids but are still socially segregated and this is done by educated prosperous people in 1960s
6. I think is this movie is both feminist and anti feminist. After having seen saas bahu culture and preference for male kids in Indian society, I have come to believe that many times females oppress female with or without opposition from males. In this movie also white females of South town mistreat their nannies not physically or economically but emotionally.
7. British India has lost of Nannie or ayahs as they were called.I am surprised there is no literature on their point of view
8. Civil rights movement is just a backdrop to the movie
9. Lead authoress, her publisher, her mom who was ex beauty queen, the lady who lives in a mansion out of town all are confident women who have charted their own course in life
10.Males do not have much screen presence and are essentially prop