The story starts in the late 1960s in Mississippi.
There were strict rules between the whites and blacks.
Skeeter Phelan, an ordinary American young white lady, who was raised by the nanny since she was young.
She wants to become a writer who can change the world
but she was rejected from the companies where she applied to.
She received an offer from the 'Jackson Journal', writing columns about the house keeping things. Skeeter tries to write a book and it was about the black people living as maids.
But since she has no knowledge about the maids’ life and writing the maids’ life recalling her memories about her nanny was difficult.
So through her old nanny's help, she gathers the maids in her town and interviews them and Skeeter faces the shocking problem about the racial discrimination.
Based on their interview, she planned to write a book and named ‘The Help’. This became the best seller and became the hot potato among the people.
People faced the discrimination happening in their society.
Finally, the book changed readers’ mind and Skeeter’s dream came true.
In one of the lecture that I'm taking this semester, I am studying about the discrimination problem between gender and race.
So I began to search movies that shows discrimination problems.
In this film, the main social issue was the racial discrimination and inequality given to the blacks and the unequal human rights.
By watching this film, it reminded of the very first time when I learnt about the American history back in my secondary school years,
I never felt that the KKK and the racial discrimination was such a serious problem that they even used different toilets and place where they eat and even riding the bus.
But at the same time, I wonder, if the whites are that worried about mingling with blacks, how they trust them and let their kids to be raised by the nannies.
I want to learn the nanny’s courage, looking out for the human rights.
If I were in their shoes, I would try to find the way to fix the problem, just like how the nannies did.
It was such a touching film.
This looks like a great film recommendation. (I hadn't heard of it before, but if I ever teach TV & Screen English again I'll consider using it in the course.) If you're looking for more movies about racial discrimination in the U.S., a good place to start would be Spike Lee's movie X ("X" is the title), about Malcolm X.
답글삭제This movie remains on my mind deeply. I strongly recommend you.And Malcolm X !! Is there any violent scenes in the movie? The title seems very serious, unlike this movie,'The Help'. I have a weak heart...(blush)
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