The Help Movie Analysis

Voices that Spoke Out
The movie “The Help” was published in 2011, the director Tate Taylor, who is also the writer, with Kathryn Stockett, who wrote the novel “The help”, talked about maid's’ life in Jackson, Mississippi, in The United States of America during the sixties. How the Whites treated the Blacks. They used to be maids for Whites in the 1960s before getting their civil rights. Aibileen and Minny were the main characters as Black maids, and Miss Skeeter the white female, who wrote their stories, to show how they suffered. Aibileen was a servant to Leefolt family and Minny was a servant to Holbrook family. The movie showed how they suffered from not having a good life and following their bosses' rules even if they were treated badly.
The film showed Blacks as servants in the Whites' houses or worked in the fields even if, the Blacks were well-educated. The society categorizes them as slaves. The idea which Blacks didn’t have a civil rights that came from the Whites and forced them to believe in it. Their facilities were different than Whites like hospitals, restaurants, churches, and schools. They were separated from humanity. Likewise, Transportation was discriminating the blacks, which they had to be seated in the back on selected seats. Building different bathrooms for Blacks avoiding from using the Whites bathroom like Minny. They fired her because she used their bathroom even though she served them for many years in their
Like Mae Mobley, Leefolt daughter, told Aibileen "you are my real Mama" because Aibileen was the person who took care of her. Moreover, Miss Skeeter had a strong connection with her maid Constantine. She wanted to know where she went after they fired Constantine because of her daughter behavior. Also, Miss Skeeter and Mobley were encouraged by the maids to enhance themselves. Children thought of their maids to be more than the maids to them. It showed that strong relationships were built between maids and children that led to build a new generation of Whites, who were raised by a Black maid, have new concepts for Blacks give them their rights like