“Blacks are Worse” was the corrupt cross of southern America and the civilized 1960s. No rights, no hopes, nothing. The state is hypocritical of universal values, when there are separate toilets and buses with colored section. John F. Kennedy has no power to undermine this race. Ray Charles and Otis Redding, Bill Russell and Muhammad Ali, do the white master need you and your geniuses? Nope. Raise your children while rich moms with a bunch of golden spoons in their mouths enjoy the taste of your own pastries. Cut the lawns, survive at 95 cents an hour. And don't bark. The owners know better what to do. Women in blue dresses grow from the diapers of their future viceroys, marking with a pencil on the door jamb another increase of five centimeters. And the mantra “You are smart, you are kind, you are priceless” only gives a reprieve from satanized bitches, and does not sow a seed of good. Mothers will then be raised with arses... They grow up and begin to push, whether it is the undisguised villain Hillie Holbrook or her friends, distinguished by meekness and spinelessness.
Silence is gold. Apparently, this expression will pass for unsubscribing to the maids and their seemingly heartless, but stuck their tongue in one place to the mistresses. Only Emma Stone’s heroine, Eugenia “Skiter” Philan, cares about the feelings of colored people. Well, or for a vacancy in a New York publishing house, where a provincial woman from Mississippi is eager to get after school. The market always requires sharp reading, and even the servants can pass for the trend. But how do you get the terrified Aibileen, Minnie, three dozen others to talk? The fear of losing your job is incomparable. It is more terrible than a beating from a husband who throws coffee grinders in fits of rage, more terrible than a young mouth that needs a school to avoid hard labor after eighteen, more terrible than the notorious toilet on the street. All will endure, but not unemployment. And the same Aibileen baby Mrs. Lifault - as a balm for the soul after the death of his only son. Seventeen boys and girls passed through her flaky hands, seventeen and another will consider her a real mother.
When the stomach hurts, the baby, ignoring the biological mother, rushes to the black nanny. So, maybe there's hope? If not a bohemian who makes you sick, or a dead president with a hole in the back of his head, then himself? Is it possible for a single child to be raised? Basic rights, including respect, are few. Among housekeepers, not everyone steals silverware, and they do not carry the tripper. Hillie Holbrook's prejudices remain the prejudices of Hillie Holbrook. And the same Eugenia will fall apart when the beloved Constantine leaves her estate without return. And simple Celia will jump out of her pants with happiness, learning how to fry chicken according to Minnie's recipe. At least it's not shameful to fight for them. And let publicity lead to dismissals, if not otherwise. A book with a pigeon on the cover is not easy to compromise on a stupid volunteer, it is the next stage in the evolution of society for offended maids, so that their children are not thrown into the dump of society. Not to be killed for suspected theft of a bicycle or because a “coffee drunk” was hit by a car, merged with the night.
Pie stuffed with shit, succinctly describes young ladies. And the toilet yard, Yard of the month. For cosmetics and buckets of varnish in the hair hide poisonous or uncultured, or complexes. The tragedy of white parents and their children. Where the old woman Constantine is a daughter, unceremoniously kicked out of a social gathering, Hilly will take her old lady to a nursing home. No love, no longing, no pity. Hilly Holbrook's generation grew up seeing the example of Jackson's first beauties in the eyes, and you're not invited to the prom or you're traded for Célia. Tons of makeup hide hatred. Hatred of everything around, heated by the past, where the “negro” is identical with the “slave”. While another race fills the church on Sundays and prays for everything. Trying to love their enemy. It’s an amazing twist between stereotypes and reality. “Maybe ‘The Help’ will erase the boundaries between colors, convincing everyone that hate is abominable and that love is common to all.” It is good for men to know what their worthlessness is. “Servants, tell us about your fate!”
And now, and in 2011, this movie may seem like an unhealthy precedent. This is not about racial discrimination. The strangest thing about The Help is its thick “feminineness.” “The servant” is a rare example where the script is given to women, and men do not reach the level of extras. Martin Luther King King here exists not as an idol that won the battle for multiculturalism against racist America, but as a product placement of the era, remembered less often by Margaret Mitchell; President Kennedy symbolically hangs near the son of Abilene and Jesus Christ, but does not exist inside a system where segregation thunders. Black men are an attribute for boltology, and white men are nativeless biomass, capricious and avoiding difficulties. Black men are at most sadistic, stabbing wives, whom the camera flies by the side. On the contrary, women, even if not all - strength, courage, strength of spirit. They are given a unique opportunity to change this miserable world. Eugenia, accused of uglyness and callousness, of unwillingness to go to the crown, her ever-smoking employer from the metropolis and her dark storytellers. It is ridiculous to accuse the authors of rabid feminism, but it makes no sense to expel the male half. And black men suffered no less.
The work of film director Tate Taylor is not without parable, simplifying the narrative. Definitely a bad Hilly, and definitely a good one who steals a ring for college for a kid. On the other hand, the external simplicity of the picture with a pronounced arrangement on good and bad is its undoubted plus. Because she's not trying to be the Malcolm X of cinema. Critics criticized the “Maid” for the lack of leading roles in black men (against the background of the almost complete absence of men as a class), for not showing violence against maids and the like. You were right not to show it. The film adaptation of the novel by Catherine Stockett tries to plunge through Skeeter into the private history of Aibileen and Minnie, average and superbly played (by the way, all three actresses in the future will become Oscar winners). Yeah, they didn't get under their skirt like Isaura, so what? They were not rodged, they were not driven to pick cotton while the sun was high. In general, they did not do expression for the sake of expression, which is not necessary. What later and more to the place will be engaged planter Michael Fassbender, for example. The filmmakers are ashamed of the past, but do not fall to their knees with repentance, taking from their creation a moral of respect for all. That’s why their “Servant” does not look like a niche product in the piggy bank for a movie about inequality profiting on the agenda.
7 out of 10
Every morning, until you're in the coffin, you have to make decisions. You have to ask yourself: Will I believe what these fools will say about me today?
“The servant” is a film adaptation of the bestselling American writer Catherine Stockett. This is the society of the 60s of the small town of Jackson, Mississippi, clearly divided into classes under Jim Crow's racial segregation laws. Yes, slavery was abolished long ago, but there is no need to talk about equality in America at that time.
“Have you ever dreamed of changing everything?” – this is the question that begins this fascinating story.
The focus is on three, at first glance, very different heroines. Soft and calm Aibileen, a maid who worked all her life in the home of white families and raised seventeen white children.
Brash Minnie, also an African-American maid, is forced to work hard to feed her children and an alcoholic husband.
Skeeter, a white girl who had just graduated brilliantly and returned to her hometown. But in the eyes of the 60s, she's a total loser. Oh, my God, she has not yet married. It is the ambition of Skeeter, who at all costs decides to prove that she can write something more than housekeeping tips, drags all the heroines into a dangerous adventure.
The Maid is only at first glance a film about the unjust racial division of people by color. In fact, this film is much deeper, it is about courage, about the courage to be yourself, about the difficult choice that confronts everyone: to go your own way, not caring about what others think or not and of course about doubts. Not only the servants here are within the tight bounds of the unspoken laws of society, but their masters, too, cannot choose their lives.
Despite the difficult questions posed to the viewer, the film leaves behind only positive emotions. Bright characters created by excellent castes of actors, the rural charm of a cozy town in the South of America, as well as hilarious scenes diluting the main plot do their job.
10 out of 10
The main topic is the BLM agenda. The 60s and a new generation of racists who give their children up to be raised by black servants, but forbid them to go to the common toilet, for sanitary reasons.
Of course, piled in a pile, to give accents, various attracted topics. The problem of class stratification was made as if it were only for black people. This has not always been the case even in the United States, and the lower and middle classes are not able to raise children on their own. And with the servants, this concept looks strange. Also, some everyday moments associated with marginal life, turned out, as if because of this someone is obliged to compensate for something. For example, one maid complained that her husband, who is not supposed to work, forced her and her daughter to work and would kill her wife if she did not bring enough money. Or the subject of bad young mothers, as if it were only for rich white housewives. There is a lot of emotional speculation in the film. But the main question of the shameful past of the United States, although already a little humiliated, still remains relevant. Naturally, people who are supporters of immoral racist phenomena may act foolishly in showing it, but they can also be smarter, using stupid ones and inventing some anti-human ideologies, for example, related to mentality and justifying solidarity responsibility. This is what BLM supporters are doing now. Well, we have our own Russophobic swamp, in which nationalists continue to croak together, for more than 30 years.
The other feminist agenda is more interesting. The conservative society of white housewives, traditionally seen as disenfranchised, was in fact powerful, thanks in part to a cohesive community. The main character, in contrast, represents the image of a modern woman. But the community, because of its poor education, is quite willing to follow its stupid but active leaders. And this, in turn, is quite conveniently used by conservative politicians of those times.
But the film is not bad and it is useful to remember such a story. Shopkeepers said they didn’t want black people buying from them. There's no such thing in the U.S. right now. But does that sound like something? Isn't it?! Any division is immoral. And whoever does this is the enemy of humanity.
Octavia Spencer won an Oscar. Well, she was good. But Emma Stone was not impressed.
The film is based on a novel that probably has real sources.
In a small American town in the 60s, there are enough good people, but also racist attitudes. The main characters in the film are black women working as servants. In one of these families, a young and emancipated girl decides to write a book about it. The heroes of the book, of course, will have to overcome their fears. And the main antagonist will be the evil leader of the local women’s community.
The finale diluted the severity of the topic with vanilla, but the film is qualitative and socially significant. You can see it.
In general, the idea of the film is worthy, but somehow the stories shown cause little sympathy.
For example, what is discrimination if a maid (without reference to her race) is asked to go to a separate bathroom, and she constantly violates this condition? Or when the daughter of another maid barged into the living room where the hosts' guests were sitting? Such employees should not be kept at work, regardless of their skin color, gender, etc. You just do not follow the rules of the employer, which were announced in advance - sorry, for that I received.
According to the logic of the film, the servants should be carried in their arms, and in general, better to work for them, so that suddenly they would not complain about injustice. Wealthy white women look so ridiculous and grotesque that they are just embarrassed for actresses.
At the same time, the really unfair and ugly aspects of racism - individual places in transport, schools for black and white, individual hotels and restaurants, etc. - are practically not reflected in the film.
I see no discrimination precisely because of the color of the maids' skin. Yes, this attitude towards servants in general, and he is not in wealthy families now? I think there's worse. In the end, the picture looks far-fetched.
The actors were very impressed with the performance of Viola Davis – a very restrained and dramatic role. Most of the others played cartoonishly.
“The Servant” is a 2011 Tate Taylor film nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.
“The Helper” is a film that is definitely worthy of attention. My score for the film is 10 out of 10. Adapted, according to the book of the same name, the film breaks through on those very emotions that the author sought.
The film tells about the American town of Jackson in the 1960s, about a good, decent girl Skeeter, who is trying to achieve something more than being the perfect wife, about the wise woman Abelin, who spent her whole life as a servant in the homes of white children, about her friend Minnie, the best cook in town and about the way that brought these three women together to achieve one goal.
The film explores one of the most important themes in the world: racial segregation. Discrimination against people of color is one of the main problems facing the main characters, but not the only one. The work also reveals the problem of the relationship between parents and children. “Children have children” or “It’s not easy to live when your own mother thinks you’re not beautiful.”, such cruel words the characters describe the theme of parenthood in the film. Children are brought up by a servant, mothers themselves do not know how to care for their own child, and in the future do not understand the anger of their own, disliked children in their direction. Equally problematic is the ideology of women as good wives to their husbands. The ability to be happy only in marriage, also haunts the main character Skeeter. Another problem that can be distinguished is the desire of people to get out of their skin to seem happy. “Under all this happiness, she is definitely unhappy.”
The film causes a storm of emotions, you do not always have time to understand and accept the actions taking place on the screen. Everyone has the right to make a mistake and everyone chooses what to believe. But in any case, the precipitation remains pleasant.
As for the cast: it’s amazing. All actors are very famous, that in the main, in secondary roles, it is very pleasing to the eye to see familiar faces on the screen. The only one, the main character Abelin is lost, drowning in colors next to the secondary character Minnie. It felt like I was only looking at Jackson’s best cook, Minnie.
Looking at the camera work, it can be seen that mainly static frames were used. Also during viewing, it is noticeable that the characters in the frames are often located with the edge.
The main task of the sound part of the production was to create the atmosphere of the 60s, with which the sound engineer coped perfectly. The songs played in the film, conveyed the same style of America of the 60s, although the songs themselves were not so much in the film.
Editing is the creation of a single picture from many shot scenes. In this project, it was consistent and qualitatively done.
The most important thing for me in the film was the mise-en-scene. The colors in the film were juicy, bright, the picture was yellow, but it all created an excellent atmosphere. The main colors in the film were yellow, green, blue and pink. The perfect color combination for a film about women breaking the boundaries of their own world.
The characters in the frame did what was peculiar to their characters. The servant, being in the frame necessarily cleaned something or cooked, they were not peculiar to sit idle. The housewives who, in their opinion, live their best lives, frankly, made no sense. And Skeeter, who is assigned the role of the writer of the book, of course, was always with paper and pen.
The film, despite the heavy themes that it carries, is the most positive and kind. A fine line between happiness and tragedy was traced throughout the timekeeping. Loss and discrimination go hand in hand with the bright and warm moments of the main characters. Which shows the strength and will of these brave women.
In the end, I can say that the film is really 10 out of 10, but the ending is a bit depressing. After a small victory, one prepares to see triumph, but one sees only life, because a small victory does not mean the end of the war, but all great things begin with small things.
In the ’60s, when people of color sit far away from whites, do not touch whites and can be killed for nothing.
They're almost like a thing. They are inherited, their opinion is not taken into account, they are given separate toilets “to avoid becoming infected.”
And at this time, aspiring journalist and writer Evgenia turns for tips on home economics to one of the black maids of her friends. And as a result, the idea arises to describe the view of the world in the words of black maids.
The first thing that happens is fear. He can come in black and white for such impudence. But when Eugene sincerely sympathizes, empathizes and wants to show the world the truth, it bribes. That kind of sincerity helps to open up. And publishers need not just an article, but a book on 12 stories.
Black maids certainly have something to say. There are joys, pains, and the greatest meanness. This is a very interesting story.
Of course, there is a pure and bright character Emma Stone even before La La Land. All for freedom, justice, equality. But in the bonds of society.
There is also an antipode, a hypocritical girlfriend who manages a charitable foundation with one hand, and in every possible way belittles black people.
It was amazing to find Jessica Chastain in the movie. Good, even in the background!
Octavia Spencer has already appeared in films about the struggle of blacks for equality. But still successfully plays his role, not mixing characters.
And Viola Davis did not even admit - she can reincarnate.
Everything is very harmoniously put into one picture. It touches the soul, of course. A very human story, about the good and the bright even in the realm of darkness.
It is surprising that this could have happened after fascism in Europe, and not so long ago, 60 years ago. There are still witnesses to these stories. It's good that they're going back in time.
And how good it is that America itself makes films about this, perhaps deliberately and silently about something. But still raising this difficult topic.
The film ' The Maid' tells us about a difficult time in the American history of people of color. A time when white people had more rights than colored people. When a white family could scoff, it could humiliate a person who was born with the wrong skin color.
The difficult lives of people who had to do everything at home by order. Cleaning the house, washing things, cooking, childcare and much, much... And the point is not even that it was a difficult job, but that this work was done by one person and he did it in order to survive in this world.
It was difficult for me to watch this movie because it feels like an emotional attraction. At one point you can laugh with a great joke, but after a few moments you are thrown a very dramatic story of the hero. And the film does not just tell it in a monotonous speech, it shows it with all the emotions, with all the experiences of this or that hero, so you at one time and funny and very sad.
Miss Skeeter, the hero of Emma Stone, decides to take a desperate step to tell the world about the problems of people who spend their lives on other people, so that loved ones would live their own. On the other hand, Aibileen and Mini, two maids who are at first afraid, but soon help to realize Skeeter’s idea.
Word for word, we immerse ourselves in the various stories of the servants’ lives, their hardships, their work. One story after another can tell us about people, about how they are willing to sacrifice a good person who raises your child because your friend can think of anything.
This film raises a lot of issues, the problem of the family, where not every child considers their blood parents their mom and dad, a social problem where whites can be superior to colored only because of the color of your skin or where your status in your environment can have a high impact on your decisions, despite what may happen because of it.
Every character in this film is fully revealed and I really like it. At first you despise this or that person, but then you look the other way, you may not make the same mistakes. Or you immediately like the character and want to know more and more, and eventually you get all the answers. Every hero is interesting and you want to somehow help him, support him.
The atmosphere of the 60s, beautiful dresses or stylish costumes reflect perfectly the fashion of those years. Musical accompaniment in the background simply does not allow to break away from viewing and sets even more atmosphere.
Ultimately, the story of a writer and two maids fighting inequality, but can they? Find out for yourself.
Discrimination against minorities and blacks is one of the fundamental themes of modern cinema. And to be honest, this whole situation, when the cinema began to revolve around political correctness, is already a little tiresome. Now it is really difficult to make any dramatic film on this subject, and in addition to the obvious irritation that the viewer experiences, there is another problem. These films are often not talented. Directors “dictate” what topics to raise, loses creative initiative and originality. The movie is bad or, if lucky, average. It used to be a different situation. The statements of the directors were sincere, because they themselves wanted to make a movie on a particular topic.
The maid came out in 2011 and turned out to be a great film on the subject of racial discrimination. Without deliberate seriousness, this sentimental drama reeks of the series Why Women Kill. The same bright, cheerful and positive movie, with a taste of feminist trends. The picture is very pleasing to the eye, all the shots are oversaturated with various colors, sunlight and authentic music. Because of the general atmosphere of warmth and coziness, the film has to smooth out some moments of the book, because we must understand that we are watching a classic Hollywood fairy tale, in which there are sad and sad moments, but you should understand that everything will end well and good will prevail. Many movies will seem excessively sweet, but if you tune in to not too serious drama and do not expect something deep and complex, then when watching there is a chance to get a tremendous pleasure.
But the most important thing about the Servant is not the picture, it's just an amazing cast. And it's one of the few movies where Emma Stone doesn't outshine everyone else. Here and in the unusual image of Viola Davis, who plays the sensitive and sad Abilene Clark. Her tough character, which is inherent in her in many works, almost disappears, and it is unlikely that she had a chance to compare with Octavia Spencer. She just shines, a very cool image of a hot-tempered woman who is the most powerful character in the film. Finally, Bryas Dallas Howard played a negative character, which is what I think she's meant to do. She looked very organic in the role of a bitch. Well, Jessica Chastain was completely surprised – you will not see her in a single film. In general, I will not hurt too much spray, because in addition to all the listed actresses there are still very interesting roles, which are better to get acquainted directly during the film.
A touching, kind, sad and positive movie came out.
39 Every day, every day, while you are not in the grave, you will have to make a decision when you wake up in the morning. And you will have to ask yourself this question: Am I going to believe all the bad things that fools will say about me today? 39
Best anti-racism story I've ever seen. The film is about the fact that sooner or later there comes a moment when it becomes impossible to bend, because it is fraught with a fracture of the spine. About what idiotic forms can sometimes take reluctance to see a full-fledged person in someone who is different from you (the topic with separate toilets generally fit perfectly - perhaps it would be difficult to find a more accurate metaphor). And a bunch of other things.
Towards the end, I was amazed at how the filmmakers manage to fit so much stuff in 10 minutes of screen time. If you consider that the film runs for 2.5 hours, the concentration of events sometimes just skyrockets - and time flies imperceptibly, it is almost not realized. Tate Taylor as a director proved himself, in my opinion, just great!
Another interesting aspect is that the story of racism in the U.S. of the '60s is told not from a male perspective, but from a female perspective. This is not a film about the struggle of harsh black activists with a brutal segregation system in the face of white policemen, Ku Klux Klans, etc. This is a story about women in a small town in Mississippi who love, suffer, have children, raise them, cook chicken and have balls. And everyone is trying to somehow live in this ridiculous society, where some should be despised openly, and contempt for others somehow hidden behind false smiles. Even those who seem at first deeply negative characters turn out to be unhappy people living with pain inside.
Honestly, I don’t see the point in retelling the plot, and without this, I don’t seem to be able to talk about this film. You will not regret it.
' The Maid' was a real discovery for me in the world of social films. I never thought it would be so plausible and powerful to show the lives of those people of color 39, literally live it for them in a few hours. First of all, this film is not just about racism and oppression of black people, but about human cruelty and absolute stupidity in another way and can not be said about people whose life and every second from birth to old age depends on the servants who do not even have the right to use the same toilet with them. Watching the film was very sad to watch scenes of moral abuse of African Americans, sometimes embracing feelings of anger and Spanish shame for my race. It is frightening that the problem of racism is still with us, only acquired a slightly democratic form, but still gaining more and more scale.
But when it comes to positive emotions, I’m glad the film ends on a positive note. I believe that all retaliation against white people was fully justified. I liked that there is no big distraction to other storylines, the authors tried to focus carefully on the problem, adding a little love scenes.
I also want to highlight the acting. Very talented and professional, the actors got used to their images 100%.
The film made you think and reconsider your attitude to people in general, treat kinder and more condescending to the weak, send to hell people who belittle you, and only sympathize with them and their misfortune.
In this strange age of over-publicity and democracy, tolerance, racism, feminism, and discrimination have become increasingly vexed. But nevertheless, this topic is an important part of the story, which once again reveals the adaptation of the novel by Catherine Stockett, continuing the spiritual heritage of the authors of the books “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, “The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn”, “Gone with the Wind”, etc.
But for me, the film was not about racial discrimination, but about human dignity. And skin color is almost irrelevant. The fact is that one person looks at another as if he is much lower than himself. And imagine what a person whose dignity is being trampled on should feel if he is not protected either socially or legally, and placed initially in some stalemate conditions of life. The film tells about people who rebel against injustice, blasting the foundations of a calm, measured hypocritical life.
The action takes place in the 60s of the last century.
The main character - Rita Skeeter - considers herself ugly, desperate to get married and decides to devote herself to a career as a journalist. She returns from the university to a small provincial town of her childhood, located in one of the southern American states, and there she gets close to the nanny of white children Aibileen and the cook Minnie. They hide that they communicate friendlyly, that a white lady visits them in the black quarter, and even more so that they decide to write and publish a book.
Another heroine - pariah of society - Celia - this happened because she was lucky enough to marry for love, and also for an extremely high-status groom, but the ladies of the upper class persistently believe that she did it dishonestly and fraudulently.
The film raises a lot of social issues. For example, why does racial hatred not subside in the seemingly established way of life of people? Blacks cannot forget the age-old exploitation of their ancestors, while whites stubbornly want to be taller. And so when a black maid commits theft, her acquaintances are encouraged to march in protest. Lady in shock - how to trust servants? And black babysitters continue to nurse their children, gradually instilling new rules in them.
I was also struck by the difference between cultures shown by religion. In the temples we mournfully repent, and they rejoice and sing.
Who's the movie for? Perhaps more for the female population, because there are practically no heroes of men, besides, the dramatic note is softened, and the emphasis is made on small lyrical strokes.
Is the film suitable for the Russian audience? Absolutely. And we had our slavery and our revolution and our trampling on dignity and our silence. Although, of course, the excessive allocation of physiology and American humor will alienate some.
I’ve been watching the movie for a long time, either in the year of the premiere or later. Now I just wanted to reconsider it (and not because of those events and protests overseas). The impressions were different, but it didn’t change my opinion of the film.
The '60s, Jackson. While Southern beauties host dinner parties, bridge games, charity evenings and other social events, their homes and children are watched by black maids. Aibileen, who worked as a domestic since childhood, raised 18 children, but her meaning of life is lost after the tragic death of her only son. Minnie, the best cook and possessor of the sharpest language in all Jackson, is forced to restrain herself while working for the bitchy daughter of her employer. The lives of these maids are radically changed when Skeeter Philan, an aspiring journalist, returns to the city to write a candid book about the life, work of the servants of the southern state of Mississippi.
The film, like Kathryn Stockett’s book, touches on a very difficult but very relevant topic – racial segregation and the history of the black rights movement. However, the plot is not about desperate freedom fighters or famous speakers. The main characters are black housekeepers who clean the house, prepare food and raise the children of their white employers. At the same time, these southern beauties are firmly convinced that the servants need their own toilet, because it is possible to get infected & #39; The good thing about the film is that such an urgent problem of inequality is presented without protests and marches (all discussed in passing), but how it actually happened. That all this was in order, the attitude, although varied, but the problem was and few people wanted to notice it. And shooting in bright colors with a lot of sunlight and a feeling of constant stuffiness - this complements the picture of the South of the 60s and at the same time highlights this sometimes difficult atmosphere of the state of Mississippi.
Our focus is on the heroes of this story. Even the heroines - and you can not name many strong films, where the plot is a woman. It also gives the picture a feminist message. The film and the book focus on three heroines - Aibileen, Minnie and Skeeter. Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) is a housekeeper with extensive experience, especially in raising young children. She loves them all, always find the right words to calm or cheer the child. But after the death of her beloved son, she literally broke this kind woman, and only work serves as consolation. And no matter how difficult, even dangerous, writing this book is, for Aibileen it becomes a kind of dedication to his son, who dreamed of becoming a writer. Minnie Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is a housekeeper who will not get into her pocket for a word, because of which she has already changed more than a dozen employers, and her culinary abilities have made her famous for the whole of Jackson. Minnie and Aibileen are best friends who support each other in difficult moments and secretly laugh at the important affairs of southern beauties. I really liked the image of Emma Stone - aspiring journalist Skeeter Philan, who dreams of becoming a famous writer, and not follow the path of her mother and all her friends - and look for a husband. Three heroines, unlike each other, unite for a common, important cause.
Among the secondary heroines - also a lot of vivid images: Bryce Dallas Howard - perfectly played bitchy and cruel Hillie Holbrook, who cares only about her image and ostentatious virtue, behind which she hides malicious racist sentiments; Jessica Chastain - spectacular, infantile, eccentric, positive and very kind Celia Foot, who unsuccessfully tries to find a friend among the arrogant southern ladies, and under the leadership of Minnie - learns to lead the house; Charlotte Hill's reaction to Mrs.
The servant is the movie you need to watch. A film that makes you think, empathize and leave a very strong impression.
The film is quite bright, rich and cheerful, although it touches on a not funny topic - the difficulties of the life of black maids. In my opinion, the picture represents only one-hundredth of the horror that happened to these women.
The tape is too colorful and sunny to tell about that period of time, skillfully masking the difficulties of life behind the flooding laughter and smile of the servants. In addition, we can say that some servants behave very audaciously towards their masters - in real life this could not happen.
The fight in the film is too bright, colorful and unobstructed, but the stories told in it make the heart shrink more and more. This tape, although in the form of songs, dances and secular balls, reminds us that there is no difference between us. No matter what color your skin is, it matters what you have inside. Regardless of social status, everyone has the right to feel and think. Don’t forget that, especially these days.
If we talk about the visual component, it is done very spectacularly, the era of that time is completely transferred, and from the point of view of fashion, you can endlessly observe the images of Madame.
Such a movement with such a hashtag in the main trends today. Rallies, riots, vandalism. Yes, people demand change and rights, but sixty years ago they were not as free as they are now. This is the story of the film.
It is worth mentioning that I do not like the current policy of Hollywood to impose excessive tolerance, because sometimes it has the opposite effect. Now there are more and more films, where the foreground is highlighted ' modern' opinion, and the script, acting, camera work, together with the works of production artists, etc., are pushed to the background. And the more valuable this picture Tate Taylor.
"The servant" is a real diamond against the background of the obscurantism into which Hollywood is rolling in pursuit of feminism and anti-racism. No, of course, I am not against the rights and equality of all, and even for. But in cinema, it is important for me that this theme is presented harmoniously. The more I was surprised by the film "Green Book" that in our time it is still possible to solve one of the pressing problems of today with such a magnificent film language. I had seen Peter Farrelly’s painting before and was delighted. She is now in the same row as the “Maid”.
What is so exciting about this film? Yes. Script, thank you for it you need to say the author of the novel Katherine Stockett. Visual is very pleasing to the eye, the picture is very rich and pleasant, sometimes it even seemed that you were watching a Disney fairy tale. The humor is great, you have to laugh a couple of times in the movie, whether you like it or not. Well, the dramatic component will make many tears.
But separately I would like to highlight the cast . It was very unusual that there were so many actresses of the first magnitude in the film, while there were no men of this status in the caste. But this absolutely did not affect the picture as a whole, the girls unconditionally coped with their task. Everyone plays great. Emma Stone after a series of comedy films, where she was good there, just shot powerfully and loudly this role. Viola Davis is a dramatic character, at one point I thought that she was strongly pushed to the third plane, but even a few scenes with her are enough to assess the level of the actress. Octavia Spencer, possibly the one who pushed Viola. She is by far the movie's favorite character, all the main humor comes from her. Just a woman-charisma, not for nothing her prototype and took for the book Catherine Stockett. Bryce Dallas Howard made me really hate myself! But the jewel was Jessica Chastain, I was surprised to see her in such a role, but, as you know, it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. And even Allison Jenny, who was not on the screen much, was able to fully reveal her character.
If film feminism is like this, I’m calm.
10 out of 10
A touching story of the connection between children and nannies
Honestly, I decided to watch this film only because the music for it was written by Thomas Newman (' American Beauty', ' Tolkien' and under a hundred other famous paintings), but it turned out that music is the weakest that is in ' The Help' against the background of everything else.
The film takes its deep personal story, showing not just how black servants lived in the sixties, but revealing the connections and attachments that a child acquires with his nanny. These agitations of the soul cannot be measured by any money, these threads cannot be cut off simply by dismissing unwelcome servants, and this is a whole fragile peace that is too easy to destroy.
A separate line in the film are the themes of sworn friends in a tightly knit hissing collective of purses, and, of course, the complete lack of alternative to the fate of women of that time, if they wanted to choose some outrageous profession like a journalist, and flatly refused the god-appointed role of a housewife.
7 out of 10
A very touching story, which is worth watching if you have the mood to slap your nose and tread your heart for strength.
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The idea of the main character Skeeter (she's Skeeter, then she's Eugenia, fuck you understand!) to become special in the plot, show off, historically not based on anything. It was presented to the viewer as a given: it's like this, and it's all here. Why did she begin to have a special sympathy for the Negroes when everyone around her treated them differently? That's not the story. At the same time, the domestic political situation around the United States itself fed these ideas, and even on federal channels it became fashionable to broadcast the views of black preachers for equal rights. Consequently, it was simply a fashion trend that every ambitious journalist or writer, especially the young and unknown, had to rein in. This suggests that Skeeter wasn’t really special, she was just like many people around who were fascinated by this topic. It’s kind of like being an active supporter of a political movement, while others just continue to live their daily lives and look at you with bewilderment. In fact, she did not risk anything and absolutely reasonably expected to become famous on a hot topic. So with the ideological motivation of the main character is a clear plot flaw.
Negro Aibileen complained to GG that in case of negligence in the planned business her life and property are in real danger, gave fresh examples. But Skeeter was not frightened at all, she dullly insisted on her (even if! after all, the danger did not threaten her, but she was to become famous if the enterprise was successful). Skeeter even stressed that she was aware of the illegality of her activities (what a beauty it is to drag a person into a dangerous adventure, as a result of which one will only be threatened with a finger and the other will be put behind bars!). Isn't that meanness?! At the same time, Skeeter still acted recklessly, which posed a threat of serious trouble for the entire company. The very fact that she regularly came to the house of a black woman (who, of course, lived in a separate neighborhood) in a small town would sooner or later become public.
By the way, the Negro families in this film lived in well-maintained separate houses, with spacious, well-tidied and comfortably furnished rooms; children slept on soft beds, on bed linens; on the streets cleanliness and order, grass cut. They're definitely not shanty shitholes. And the black heroines of this play, and their children? - They're just fat! They do not say that they are malnourished, that they are martyrs.
In the story, the black maid Minnie is very greyhounded, and even Skeeter was embarrassed by her reproaches against whites. Minnie was kicked out of her job as a domestic worker for violating the requirement not to use the toilet for family members (she had a separate toilet to which she did not want to go through the yard in the rain - Queen, yo-yo!) Then the whole film was furiously brandished as a red rag, as an example of egregious injustice. I beg you! This was the employer’s requirement, it was one of the conditions of work for the worker in the house. For a moment: the employee is obliged to comply with the terms of the employment contract, this is called labor discipline, for violation of which there are sanctions.
Many examples of “cruel, inhumane” treatment of Negroes are too much of a stretch and are often just appeals to emotions. For example, an old woman told how a white farmer would not allow her to cut through his plot, but he could not allow any white man to do it, but it was exposed as an example of racism.
And so almost all the other "blatant racist" plots shown in the film - if you look at them, the eggs of the evicted are not worth it. Take at least the expulsion of an old maid when her daughter made a formal scandal at a dinner party; as a result, the employer simply fired his employee, and the color of his skin played absolutely no role. Such dismissals happen in the world every day: somewhere someone is fired, not always justified, not always legal, often thrown at the calculation, often caused by the most ridiculous, far-fetched reasons. But racism or the special suffering of blacks, Jews and beyond, has nothing to do with it. The film diligently pulls the owl on the globe, but a thoughtful analysis of the flights does not allow you to agree with this tendentious presentation and constant appeal to emotions: the black woman cried – so cruel white racists are to blame. Minnie was beaten at home by her husband, but no one comes to mind to weave the color of her skin to this (and if her husband was white, then, of course, a racist!!!) Yes, no sane person would not want to have in the servant of such a scandalous brash Negro, who is quite reasonably fired for violation of labor discipline.
Next. The woman was not obliged to lend money to her maid. At the same time, the maid was indeed a thief, but this theft was filed as an extreme measure, as a good goal, and therefore just. And the white woman was put on the plot as a cruel bitch (in fact, she was, but I’m talking about a bad way to emphasize it). Stupid emotional play.
Special. The shit in the pie is a thrash! Typical American "humor" in the style of the same "American Pie" (what a coincidence!!!) When you don't have enough brains to come up with something like that, shit goes around: American quality mark, time-tested. In addition, several other plot moves were built on this stupid idea.
Conclusion. I totally agree that racism is bad. But I am categorically against trying to see it where it is not.
I am also against the preconceived bias when it is necessary to dullly work out the order: to draw all blacks - white, all whites (with small exceptions) - black. The ears of the order are sticking out extremely strongly here.
In everything else, the film gives the impression of touching drama, especially when it comes to the separation of young children from beloved nannies. But racism and the motivation of the main character categorically did not work out. So the film is another Hollywood agitation in which white people engage in self-flagellation for racial prejudices of the past. The film is needed or interesting not to the world community, but to white Americans themselves in order to exacerbate the inner sense of guilt before black fellow citizens, which has already been excavated in recent decades. And this is already yielding powerful results in the form of reverse racism against whites: go for it – you wanted it! And continue to shoot about all sorts of "bleeds of faggots", you see, in time and before them will begin a repentance campaign.
I have expressed myself as a few disadvantages, and a few obvious advantages.
First down: Very protracted, some moments I would remove, as they only stretch the timekeeping, without carrying much meaning.
Second downside: Excessive tearfulness, I do not know whether this can be attributed to the minuses, but for me this is a clear disadvantage.
Third disadvantage: The play of some actors did not like, and the acting skills of the main characters were at a height, especially actress Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain, but the main character of the children was terrible, of course you can close your eyes because of age, but there are a large number of films where children play no worse than adults. Also, all the grooms of this film played like boiled potatoes.
Let's move on to the pluses.
First, of course, a serious theme of the film, namely racism, which deserves at least a hundred adaptations.
Secondly, as I said before, a great game of the main heroes.
Thirdly, unlike other films on the subject of racial discrimination that I have seen, this one is distinguished by its more serious and cruel approach, there is no fantasy, by the type of “fairytale” for no reason, good attitude to blacks or any pity, only harsh reality. I really liked that!
A world where good is not necessary to prove its superiority, a evil in its efforts is comical and helpless.
The film is well shot, with good acting, with the “right” direct plot, a typical Oscar-winning contender for the role of life teacher. You will not find a special depth of meanings, characters or events here. Everything is typical: there are the oppressed, there is a fighter who, through a series of obstacles, tragedies and misunderstandings, achieves success, a small victory. And everyone suddenly sees and begins to believe that yes, they say, we were wrong and, figuratively, applaud standing.
But, despite this, the film leaves a pleasant aftertaste. He's kind as a good story. Evil is ridiculed here and then it becomes unarmed, helpless. And goodness does not boast of its truth, does not avenge oppression. A pleasant picture, a relaxed narrative, pleasant music, sincere empathy for the heroes and the joy of the triumph of good - all without stretches.
The whole problem of “The Servants” is that the reality displayed in the film is shown exclusively in an exaggerated and “fresh” version. Yes, by the early '60s, the African race was more tolerant than it was some 50-60 years ago, but when the central (and most vivid) thought of the film becomes a pie with shit - it does not play into the hands of the supposed dramatic story.
Stories, where the story begins writer Skeeter writes a book about the difficult life of black servants in the homes of progressive American society. Trying to make of the book Katherine Stockett soul-catching and truthful film adaptation, Tate Taylor, in the arsenal of which there is only one work, omits the fact that the main character this long-suffering book is necessary primarily to please his own "I" and as an attempt to prove to others (read as: arrogant "friends") his own importance. At a time when maids who put themselves in constant danger are a way to speak up and, quite possibly, get rid of the oppression that has plagued them all their lives. This is the whole drama of the film, which was not paid due attention, translating the lens into various scenes of revenge, injustice and oppression, when the whole point lies in absolute indifference to the problem.
But no matter what anyone says, the main work was done by the cast of the picture, mainly giving preference to the supporting characters, where Viola Davis looked very decent and quite deservedly received an Oscar.
It is foolish to deny that racism has disappeared in the present time, even though everything that can be adapted to eradicate it now. Even with such pressure, the old wounds of society heal very, very slowly. Tylor tried to contribute to the story by saying in film language that it was not normal. But whether due to experience, or the weakness of the script itself (books), they say that the problems are considered very superficially. Or just the same book was the desktop literature of the standard American housewife, where you can both bewilder and cry and giggle ... and the movie, in fact, turned out the same.
7 out of 10
The film is a drama based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Stockett “The Servant” left me exceptionally positive impressions and emotions. As in the film you can see a lot of sincere and positive emotions, despite the presented problem in relation to “colored”. We can also say that the film itself is a solution to this problem, where there is a kind of “war” between servants and mistresses. The problem of racism is presented in great detail, sometimes even showing a cruel but at the same time truthful attitude towards servants, where they were subjected to racial discrimination, and where each servant copes differently. You can also add that the whole film is based solely on female characters, which plays a very important role in presenting the problem of racism.
Thanks to the audacious and understanding Skeeter, they had a chance to live in a new way, as she was not afraid to go against the system and wrote a book (albeit anonymously) that presented very different stories of black female servants, where each servant had its own fate, its own truth, its own troubles and losses. The only problem they had was racism. Thanks to the characters of the servants, for example, Aibileen's calmness and Minnie's audacity, you can see how they coped with it or not.
For me personally, the phrase "You're kind." You're smart. “You are priceless” became the hallmark of this beautiful film, since it is thanks to this phrase that you can understand how the servants loved the children of the housewives as their own.
The acting of the main characters of the film Aibileen and Minnie was the most real and sincere, since only such a sincere game can one empathize with them those problems, those feelings and emotions. And of course it is impossible to mention Skeeter and Celia, where they were the very simple, but at the same time very important people who could understand these servants and help them.
10 out of 10
Courage is what makes you strive forward, not afraid of a new life. Not to be afraid is to hope.
The stunning American film The Help, directed by Tate Taylor, tells the story of the slave and unjust life of black women in the southern United States in the 1960s.
If you’ve ever thought about watching a movie based on real events that happened to ordinary black women in the southern states or about segregation in the United States, then be sure to watch The Maid. This picture will make you think about the injustice and lawlessness that prevailed in those days against black people. The film was shot in 2011 and it is not distorted by far-fetched biographical facts on the part of a “tolerant society” or vice versa not embellished with them. All the charm lies in the simplicity of presentation to the audience: the story is conducted on behalf of two maids who put their whole lives on the education of white children, sometimes forgetting about the upbringing of their own. Imagine: you are raising someone else’s child, who in principle is not needed by anyone, including parents, and someone else is watching your own. These women gave a piece of themselves to every house they went to, and they were treated no better than cattle in the yard. Poor maids were forbidden to go to the toilet in the house, drink and eat the same thing, ride the same bus and just be in the same room with white people. However, among them there were brave and brave women who declared themselves and their rights to the whole country and then to the whole world.
Separately, the canon should raise the game of three wonderful actresses Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis. Beautiful ladies embodied the images of brave women who went against the rules and laws.
10 out of 10
Am I going to believe what these fools will say about me today?
Because everyone cares. Black, white, everything, deep down we all suffer losses.
The film was based on a very good book of the same name by Catherine Stockett, and therefore, after learning about it, I did not even doubt whether to watch - and I did not regret it. The film ran for more than two hours, but I didn’t notice that time and was surprised to see that two hours had passed, despite the fact that I was reading the book and knew the whole plot, just wanted to see the characters, so to speak, in motion, to introduce them, or what.
And I wasn't disappointed. Aibileen, it is true, seemed to me older and Minnie younger, but the rest of the actors were just in the bull’s eye – and Skeeter and Miss Celia, and especially Miss Hilly, who won my heart with her image of a smiling bitch. The case when the character wants to hate, and the actress wants to adore, because Bryce Dallas Howard filed Miss Hilly, in my opinion, perfect.
The film touches on a very complex social problem - the relationship between white and black people. In America, it was indeed a very painful topic, and even now there are racists in the world, and the question of “are equal or not equal?” is raised more than once. And it's really painful, especially for blacks - but also for whites who had a conscience, too. All these separate rooms, separate toilets, the squeamishness of the white “lady” towards the black maids, although those same maids did everything for them and for them and raised their children who said “you are my real mother.” Now, in our time, it seems wild, but then everything was fine!
But the film is not just about racial segregation. This film is also about brave women like Skeeter, Aibileen and Minnie, about the importance of loving yourself, about the importance of telling the truth. Also in the film there is humor, for example, I am very amused Minnie, both in the book and in the film adaptation, a stunning character and amazing Octavia Spencer.
I think it’s worth watching for everyone, especially those who love such complex questions and dramas.
10 out of 10
8.1 points, a place in the top and several awards. I think the movie is too much. Yes, there is an acute topic of discrimination, but alas, I think the topic is solved by the wrong methods. Yes, whites are mostly bad at black in the film, but let’s take a look at the points that are emphasized here:
1) Black works from 9 to 16. More than humane. We have a lot of jobs in our country.
2) They get up to $200 a month. That's a pretty good amount at the time. And even in the movie, many people can afford to pull college for children with this money. As far as I know from the same American films, not every white family can pull college right now.
(3) Yes, the work is not easy, but on the other hand: work in warmth, cleanliness and satiety (and black maids quite resemble chicken wings and the rest of the cooking that is prepared). Yes, I know firsthand what work for the owners is - I worked myself, but on the other hand, I did not drag bricks and stand behind the machine at the factory. Your pros and cons. Just like any other job.
(4) In the film, the problem arises when the law is lobbying for blacks to make a separate toilet in the house of the owners. This is presented as a formidable discrimination. Pardon me, but putting white disdain aside, what's the problem? In most large houses, at least 2 bathrooms, and where there are permanent working staff, there is a separate node. Or is it a matter of principle to go to the master's toilet? I worked in similar houses and conditions, and also went to a separate bathroom in a separate annex. I’m white, but somehow I don’t feel discriminated against or discriminated against.
(5) And other situations in the film are also ambiguous and weak to highlight this problem. As an example, guests came to the hostess and occupied the kitchen, where an elderly maid serves. At this time, the maid comes to see her daughter. The hostess tells her that she has guests and orders her to go around the house and come in from the other side and wait for her mother there. However, the daughter opens the door and begins to greet her mother, hugging her in front of astonished guests. Well, the hostess, at the behest of one of the guests, kicks both out. Yes, here as if the hostess also behaved ugly, but, in my opinion, the daughter here also did the wrong thing, and even framed her mother. My mom was at work, and I could have waited. Let’s say if my parents had important guests and/or a serious conversation, I wouldn’t mess around where they sit, and even with friends.
So what's going on in this movie is basically what's going on in America right now -- it's just that any problem with black people automatically becomes discrimination. And if the film stipulates topical problems, then he is immediately given a green light and half a point on top, no matter how it is depicted.
Yes, there is a problem, I do not dispute the infringement of the rights of colored people, but nevertheless, warming and progress are on the face: they travel in public transport, they visit establishments, albeit separately for people of color, etc. Yes, the police treat them like cattle, and the owners consider them their property, and can lie and slander, spoiling the reputation and opportunity to get a job with someone else, yes, there is almost no choice for blacks, yes, they are arrogant, this is understandable. But this is the specificity of such work for rich people. I worked in this field for many years and changed any employers and I will tell you that I was treated the same way. Who is nahamit, who is underpaid, and someone else will accuse of theft. We also used them in the gardens. There was no room for personal meetings or conversations in the workplace. At the same time, employers want us to be able to do everything (not the narrow range of certain duties as black housewives), so that we live with them on the territory (and black people go home in the film), so that we work 12 hours, not 7-8 like black people, etc. However, I understand that I still have a slightly different situation outside of this work. For example, I will not beat the cops on the head with a baton or shoot Ku-Klusklanovtsy.
So the film is controversial. Yes, it seems to be necessary to talk about the problem of discrimination of those years, and even this turns out on the one hand, and on the other hand: it seems to me that many things are too overblown, others are not twisted, and the rest do not belong to blacks at all. Yes, white shows a herd of assholes, yes, infringement of rights to the face, but somehow all this is not so and so.
Aren’t bad whites often seen in movies? Fighting for tolerance, tolerance and discrimination in the media flashes only the image of bad whites. As in this movie, there is only one sympathizer for every 20 whites. It turns out that we constantly whiten the blacks and vilify the whites. And if you show a bad black character (or worse, make a picture without blacks at all), then the media is whining about discrimination. Well, white people, you can show them as bastards. Double standards. No, I understand that at that time the vast majority had this attitude towards black people. But everything is too one-sided, exaggerated and painted in only two colors. And in life it is so rare that something is clearly either black or white. Life consists more of halftones. Maybe it's time to file a response petition about the inferiority of white images in the media?
A film about discrimination against black and black servants in the 60s in America. As for me, the disclosure of the topic is controversial, but the film itself came out not bad.
Who should not watch: who is fed up with the subject of discrimination against blacks, who does not like drama, leisurely narration and dialogue?
7 out of 10
... and although we understand that it wasn’t quite that way even in the book, it’s heartwarming, because the main characters of the film – the maids Aibileen and Minnie – really deserve a better life. They evoke sympathy, they hold attention and seem alive. These are the most striking characters in the film.
But the cast is generally happy. Let the social contrasts be emphasized as loudly as possible - good and Jessica Chastain in the role of "rejected white", and Bryce Dallas Howard in the role of a young racist, and Chris Lowell in the role of blinkered handsome, and the list goes on. No matter who you take, everyone played well. And sometimes this game penetrated into the heart - for example, in the episode of the dismissal of the old maid Constantine. Perfectly conveyed the indecision of an unevil by nature lady who found herself in a situation of choice between public “duty” and ethical duty. The episode from Eugenie’s memoirs, the charity ball, Stuart’s chauvinism, the scene with Minnie and her hostess’ husband, the reactions of Hillie’s eccentric mother look interesting and filled. Movies are fun. In paintings of this kind, pathos is inevitable, and it is here. In some places it seems excessive - the child says that the maid is his real mother, I don't believe. The hostess sits the maid at the table and begins to treat her touchingly, I do not believe, but he has not eclipsed for me the immediacy of what is happening.
Although the logic, in my opinion, still strongly shifted. The daughter of a black maid is unhappy that she was offered to enter the house from the other side and not interfere with the secular reception. I'm afraid that's what I would do. Is that wrong? You have to fight for your rights, right? This part of Konstantin's dismissal looked just unbelievable. Another black maid, unsuccessfully asking for money from the owners, steals an expensive ring from them and calmly carries it to the pawnshop. In the described situation with the whipping up of passions about the persecution of colored people, this act looks strange. At least in terms of self-preservation. It is not quite true, I think, that the finale depicted the pompous celebration of only two maids, because many black women agreed to tell their stories, and therefore each was equally in danger of harassment.
By the way, what kind of grievances did we face? Separate bathrooms, separate houses, separate places in transport, prohibitions and restrictions, arrogance and squeamishness on the part of whites (but not all), brutal suppression of protests. Yeah, it's all unpleasant. Outrageous. But social injustice didn't just affect people of color. To remain without education because of poverty or to remain without a job at the whim of the boss could not only colored. And husbands didn't just beat wives in colored neighborhoods. Of course, the upper strata of society had nothing to worry about, but in fact, white people had something to say about justice. I do now. Obviously, the film is not about them. Why didn't Evgenia write a book about white people? Probably because dozens of writers have spoken about white misfortunes before her. To succeed, she needed the effect of surprise.
Therefore, the situation with Eugene is somewhat ambiguous. Maximum softened and almost invisible the fact that with the help of the book, she made a good career and left the city, leaving its inhabitants to gnaw at each other and reap the fruits of her stormy activity. Very touching is the "blessing" of her main accomplices. By the way, did all her respondents tell the truth and only the truth? Maybe someone decided to settle scores with the hated masters? Nope? All right. Let's take your word for it.
And the review is still green. Yes, a fairy tale based on reality. But it's a good story. The sharp corners in it are beautifully rounded, most problems are gracefully sidelined, and perhaps out of respect for historical truth, this cannot be done. But for the sake of the utopian hope of a bright future in which the evil will always be punished and the good rewarded, I think it is possible to do this. Sometimes.
General impression: Absolute victory, 10 points from me and all cake!
It was yesterday that I decided to watch this movie, but it was already so late, and the tape does not go for an hour - 146 minutes, but what! God, my soul was torn as I watched the cruelty of pathetic virgins and the struggle for justice. Question: Can people really be so cold? Answer: without options, because the real ugliness is hidden inside! The film has a lot to think about: tolerance, decisions, parenting, spiritual development, what people say. It takes place in Mississippi in the 1960s during the Black Civil Rights Movement. What do you want me to say about political correctness abroad, etc.? But it was with this film that I realized how guilty white Americans feel right now that every movie has to have a black actor. Yes, just no one wants to sue, and if the director does not put a black guy in the frame, they will drag him to the courts, they will also be accused of racism. That's right! Because they did it themselves, around them, there was no need to act like a pig: slavery and humiliation of another person, because the color of the skin is not the same. Disgusting... Move away from the topic...
Caste in the tape is magnificent, at one time the charming Octavia Spencer received an Oscar for the role of Minnie. In general, looking at the composition, you experience only a pleasant impression of actresses and actors: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain (whom I did not recognize), Allison Janney. It was by looking at the characters that I got tremendous emotions. And everyone's on the tape! So much ambition in the young writer Skeeter, so much resentment, anger and at the same time love in the maids that I cried from injustice, then laughed from sparkling and comic situations, where there are no vulgar jokes. And you laugh only because you are happy for a person, sincerely and for the good.
The tape is recommended as a drama, but I noticed during the detailed immersion a light melodrama pops up, which came out tearful, well, let the film be chic! Definitely the picture has its own style and without departing from this immersion and bright colorful shades, I saw the other side of the medal, which is not so pretty as the dress of Hilly Holbrook (one of the heroines).
You can scold C/F for the primitiveness of some actions (good conquers evil), but here it is not so, not so. And after the end of the tape, waving tears with my hand, I was left alone with my thoughts. And now it's one of my favorite movies. Deserved!
A little story that everyone should see. I would definitely recommend it to everyone! A great script, interesting and funny episodes, and most importantly, there are several stories that merge into one, will not be boring. It is important to understand what kind of heart a person has, rather than looking at their appearance.
How does it feel to raise a white child when someone else is looking after your own child at home?
Let me make a small digression. The servant is a film that, no matter how cliched it sounds, is suitable for both adults and children, it lacks vulgarity and what children inherit, only some scenes are on the edge, but do not cross it. So the film is suitable for the family, it is even made for her, which does not mean that the film is not suitable for singles.
This review could have ended, but it is just beginning. The Help or in the original The Help, a multifaceted film, it is about love, its various manifestations, about aspirations, about how important it is to do what is right, what is important for you, even to the contrary of those you trust, but most importantly - about racial oppression. The film copes perfectly, does not hold up in drama in one of the episodes, despite the magnificent game Emma Stone, but the film does not go beyond what can afford to go Schindler's List, Django released and other films speaking about this problem.
Despite the seriousness of the topic raised, the film remains bright, sometimes funny, and even the most emotional scene does not leave the viewer in despondency and sadness, but leaves a feeling of light sadness.
The film does not divide people into good and bad based on race. Many of the characters themselves change over the course of the film, and almost all of them matter the most.
Despite the fact that the film is quite long, it looks in one breath, shot without complaints, and the last scene is fascinating. The play of actors, or rather actresses, leaves only a pleasant impression, I especially want to highlight Emma Stone, an ambitious and purposeful, but empathetic and kind young writer and Jessica Chastain, a simple but kind “housewife”. We cannot forget the duet of Viola Davis and Bryce Dalass Howard, who are completely different in temperament, but have many common features. And the most unpleasant character, performed by Octavia Spencer, who quite copes with his task and role in the film.
The film is not without some flaws that almost do not interfere in obtaining maximum satisfaction from the film.
9 out of 10
I have never been interested in “colored” people. In modern society, this problem does not stand in this vein, fortunately. The way the story of maids – beautiful women – is shown delights and arouses interest in history.
Subtle humor and serious themes, the whole range of attitudes towards a person who is supposedly worse than you.
The world is not black and white. But in this film, the good is clearly outweighed in favor of the "colored." Vice is punished, good gets a chance to triumph.
More than two hours pass unnoticed when you plunge into this world!
10 out of 10
T is tolerance. Tolerance = Oscar. That axiom! The film captures a challenging time in America when racism flourished. Now all the movies are just about that. If you want honor at the Academy, the film should be infringed on the rights of citizens, show non-traditional sexual orientation and racism. Honestly, such a topic is boring, but who prevents the Russian audience from not watching such films? Here! The picture was good, only the topic was worn.
African American servants in the home of wealthy white Americans. We have seen both impeccable obedience ("Kelvin, what does this nigger allow himself?") and oppression of the servants (all in the same "Django" from Tarantino), it is time to show women deprived of all rights who are forced to work somewhere to feed themselves.
Philosophy is seen from the first minute. And you understand that the film is touching in itself, because the main character begins her story about the care she takes care of the children in the house of the owners. This episode takes 5 minutes, but it’s so humanistic that you understand why the film was nominated for the ceremony. The main characters are several, on behalf of several servants and this story begins.
As expected, the picture highlights the main villain of the project, so that we immediately understand who the housekeepers are dealing with. Charming Bryce Dallas Howard shows us a fierce bitch who hates “blacks” to the core, who has influence in society and tries to show everyone that she is the best. The irony is that it is the premier charitable foundation for African American children. They managed to spin it. The character makes himself despised from the first appearance on the screen.
Another big story. The picture shows that not all whites are so disgusting. That, I think, is the real fight for justice. A couple of references to the march of Martin Luther King (and we all remember "Selma"), in the frame appears a mini version of the freedom fighter - Emma Stone. The girl is tired of the oppression of blacks, so she tries to help, to get to the truth.
The film puts her on a pedestal with Bryce Dallas Howard. Good move. They're equal, friends, white! But the more the main villain is driven, the further away the fair white knight in the person of Stone moves from her. This makes it clear that the rights were originally equal, just one girl is a man and the other is a monster. It’s time to reveal Emma’s story, and there are many answers. Because of the difficult situation in childhood, because of the nagging of the mother and inattention from the opposite sex, the girl did not break down, trying to prove to everyone that we are all human, regardless of skin color. Someone will say that if she grew up in luxury and honor, she would not become such, but let’s not touch this topic, because the film is based on the story of Catherine Stockett “The Servant”, in which the roles are arranged as the author wanted.
Danger, fear and risk interfere with Emma. We see how she tries to talk silent housekeepers. What are they? Fear of being caught, fear of being out of work, so they tolerate and remain silent. Anger, resentment, accumulated over the years of work, burst into a new wave, enriching Emma with information and making viewing more fascinating. Various secondary circumstances accompany the film's main narrative: some further intimidate African-Americans, others unleash the language. It is amazing how many vile and vile actions people commit without thinking about what remains in the memory of the victim.
At the key moment, the picture takes a second wind. Although the main idea was to convey the truth to people, secondary processes did not interfere with it. Experience in personal life and awareness of their place in society more harden the writer, and maids feel support and patronage. And even though Emma Stone is such a small and soft personality, she can make everyone shudder.
The finale of the picture is quite dramatic. The main message is clear, but what will it entail? That's what you're gonna find out. You know, sometimes such films awaken feelings, make you think about those things that never came to mind. The tick on tolerance has already been put, which means the picture is already in the top of the best films. But the movie is really pleasant, only the topic of infringement and inequality is boring. These films should be made, but not as often as now.
Here’s a funny comment about the cast. African-American actresses (Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer) wander from one “scandalous” project to another. Every year. “Oh, you have racism in the movie?” Then we're coming to you!