The Help - Don't Be A Problem!

(2011) ★★★★☆

There was a time when black maids were unkindly treated like slaves, and would simply get fired if they used the white’s toilets; when one would get imprisoned or in trouble if he instigated anything like the black and the white are all equal (see how Martin Luther King ended up); when the KKK were so crazy about eliminating the black, and lots of innocent people got hurt as a result; when Aibileen decided to pluck up her courage and tell how it really felt to be a Negro maid in the white family.

Racism is evil and dangerous. It brings conflicts and even deaths. Racists are poor and ignorant. They’re basically too arrogant to see the truth that all pain comes from our distinctions. We’re all colored beings. We’re all flesh and blood. If we keep digging, we shall realize that we’re nothing but some sort of energy. That’s all. There’s in essence nothing that may distinguish you from others. Like I always say, if you think you’re special, you’re a problem.

In the film, there’re problematic white people as well as kind ones. Skeeter (Emma Stone) is the latter. She determines to write a book from Negro maids’ point of view about their everyday harsh lives, after getting agitated by those biased white people, including her mother in the first place. The book’s called ‘The Help’. It’s so informative, entertaining and moving that it finally gets to change people’s stereotype. Of course it’s not that easy as always since some just never get tired of being a racist, a fool if you will.

‘The Help’ may seem slow-paced and boring at first, but as it moves on, it becomes surprisingly mesmerizing. It involves you with touching moments and tearful laughter, like the ‘eat my shit’ plot that’s absolutely humorous and ironic. You’d go like, yeah, that’s what I’m talking about, but seriously don’t do such things to anyone. If you see one eating shit and he doesn’t know, would you shout and tell him, or be quiet and let him? I guess the latter is more vicious!