I liked The Help.

visceral-beauty:

I watched it last night with Jordan, we both really enjoyed it. I thought the acting was fantastic, for all of the actors. I really love Emma Stone, though. I don’t usually care about celebrities that much but she just seems really lovely.

Anyways. I don’t see why everyone seems to hate this film so much. I don’t think this movie is racist. Is it entirely accurate? Of course not. Does it do everything right? Of course not. But overall I think it is a good story. It’s enjoyable. It shows that racism is not a problem that only existed pre 20th century. It existed in 1967, and it exists to this day.

I think that white people who do not understand that their parents and grandparents were most likely racist need to see this. Racism can be extremely hurtful and blatant even if it is not master and slave.

I think this movie did a lot of Oscar baiting, but that’s to be expected, I guess.

That’s uh…that’s not why people don’t like the movie. There are lots of movies about the Civil Rights era, know what most of them have in common? There are white protagonists. Want to know a secret? I don’t care how Civil Rights affected white people. Really what changed for them? Shit, now the law says you gotta treat people like people.

How

Awful

Now I’m not saying that there weren’t white people who disagreed with the way things were, I’m positive there were. But I’m tired of hearing about them. Dead tired. Civil Rights wasn’t a white people fight and yet I get more stories about how hard it was for them then I do about real People of Color that actually had to deal with it.

Why was Skeeter the main character? Why does, at the end of the movie/book, a White woman get to reap all the benefits and then leaves a whole community that she potentially put in danger. Where was Aibileen supposed to go at the end? My aunt, who was a maid during that time says chances are she would be forced to move (WHICH WE KNOW SHE COULDN’T AFFORD TO DO) because chances are she wasn’t going to get another job in that town. NOT TO MENTION chances are the Klan would be after her cause news travels.

Had The Help actually been, ya know, all about the black women dealing with their issues I might have liked it. But instead, I got a movie/book about a white woman being sad because there’s racism and her black nanny was fired and sent away and so she, running out of ideas btw, decides to write about black maids so she can jump start her journalistic career. Then she succeeds, runs off to be even more successful and leaves everyone who helped her alone in the dust.