They got it all wrong.

Madelyn 2022-03-22 09:01:06

Five stars for books and two stars for movies. There is no sense of substituting the times at all, and it was filmed from a modern Hollywood perspective, not from Jackson and Mississippi in the raging sixties. It does not show how much risk they took in doing this, and how scared they were in their hearts. That is what happened in a worldview that takes racial discrimination as self-evident common sense and unquestionable laws of nature. How can it be taken so lightly? Although I admit that the book is more free and the plot is indeed quite a lot, but Two and a half hours has been very tolerant of a movie, but even the story is not clear. It does not describe the deep relationship between Skeeter and Constantine, nor does it describe Skeeter's desperate pursuit of Constantine's whereabouts. In the end, Charlotte Phelan turned out to be a positive character, and also changed the story of Constantine's dismissal beyond recognition. in the book, She ain't sorry for firing Constantine at all, what else to drive to Chicago to pick him up. . . In that era, even if she was sorry, she couldn't do such a thing, okay? The lines are trying their best to fit the original, but the ideology is not in line with the original, and everything is in vain. Those who are interested in civil right can use this movie as a negative teaching material for discourse. Don’t read it if you’re not interested, don’t be fooled by the score.

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Extended Reading
  • Carmine 2022-03-24 09:01:08

    With tears and laughter, I want to read the original.

  • Hailey 2022-03-22 09:01:06

    Bryce Dallas Howard is about to become a national bitch

The Help quotes

  • [first lines]

    Aibileen Clark: I was born 1911, Chicksaw County, Piedmont Plantation.

    Woman: And did you know as a girl growing up that one day you'd be a maid?

    Aibileen Clark: Yes ma'am, I did.

    Woman: And you knew that because...

    Aibileen Clark: My mama was a maid. My grandmama was a house slave.

    Woman: [whispering as she writes down] "house slave..." Did you ever dream of being something else?

    Aibileen Clark: [nods yes]

    Woman: What does it feel like to raise a white child when your own child's at home being looked after by somebody else?

  • Mr. Blackly: I guarantee you, one day they're going to figure out cigarettes will kill you.