How often do you think about other people’s lives and lives? Has this ever happened? If so, then all is not lost and you are probably still worthy of being called Human. And those who have been spared these questions should only be pityed.
This lyrical digression reflects to some extent the main idea of The Servants. The idea of the picture is to expose the injustice of life, lies, conspiracies and “unscrupulousness” of the mind of some people. This film is a challenge to society, a direct hint that screams to us about the truth, which most try to avoid and live as they lived all the time, because it is much more convenient. When you sit in your cozy apartment and watch TV in the evening, and someone in the pouring rain is on the street, hiding behind a cardboard box, and you know it, will you still care? Of course, no one will care about those who are lower than you on the social ladder, no one cares about those who are offended by luck, those over whom a blue bird has not flown in their lives, who fight every day for survival. They cannot be compared with those who have everything, but have not made any effort to obtain it, but have everything for granted.
But no matter how life is ordered, it does not imply that people forget who they are. It is unacceptable to put ourselves above everyone else, because if we look at the root, who are we? This is the most important thing, and how we dress, what houses we live in, and what the color of our skin is – it does not matter at all. What distinguishes us is the character traits that characterize everyone. A man with a big heart and a good soul, merciful but just - this is what a real man should be.
The film is about all the misunderstandings and injustices of life. Black and white. Good and bad. Although, in fact, this struggle is stupid, because if you look at it like that, this life is like a zebra, people are black, people are white, like stripes on a beast. But why don't these stripes on the animal skin fight each other? This struggle between people seems to me to be just such a paradox, it is equally devoid of common sense and any other meaning. And the purpose of the picture is to convey this to everyone so that everyone understands how stupid it is to be a racist, it is not human.
And what exactly swings the picture - the acting is just amazing! Each of them, good or bad, played well. The plot with their help acquires real colors and looks like real life, you never have to doubt the plausibility of what is happening. Everything is so well set that you yourself have to worry about the heroes, seeing their brave decisions, admire their courage and thirst for justice, rejoice in their small victories and achievements.
Sitting down to watch the film, I did not even expect how deep the picture I had to see, how many touching and heartbreaking moments to experience. Time is not wasted!
Anyone who cares about the problem of injustice, the fate of other people and how to solve all these aspects is obliged to see the film.
The servant, like the cold rain in the middle of a hot day, cannot be overlooked.
The issue of equality of people according to various criteria (age, gender, nationality, religion, etc.) has always caused and, I think, will cause a lot of controversy. It is human nature to identify with a certain group of people, I would even say it is necessary, because being a hermit is not so easy (and is it necessary?). But people who share our views can help, and provide support when it is so necessary, and give good advice. And here's the problem: if there are many such groups, then some of them are better, others are worse, some are stronger, others are weaker. But is that really true?
In America, the question of who deserves the most rights is especially acute, because the colored population makes up a significant part of the entire population. These are the people that white Americans despise and hate. The film perfectly shows all the white man's contempt for the man-servant, that is, for the Negro. For inhumanity and just wild disgust for the latter, sometimes I wanted to straighten the brains of some heroes, because in fact, they differ from their servants only by the presence of money, although they behave as if the world belongs exclusively to them.
Especially in this regard, Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) is a self-confident, insensitive, bitchy lady, ready to do anything to humiliate another and show her superiority. And that seems to be the only thing she can do and does with pleasure. The role is performed perfectly, emotions are immeasurable.
I really liked the role of Mini (Octavia Spencer). Emotional, hot-tempered, intemperate woman, acutely reacting to everything that happens around. It is Hilly and Mini who give such a piquancy to the whole film.
The theme of the (un)equality of races in a single country is not the only issue raised in The Servant. It is impossible not to notice the problem of raising a child in the family.
Miss Hilly was the first child to have a baby. Now all the girls of the bridge club also had to have children.
Having a baby just because it’s fashionable is normal? Then for this unfortunate child they take a nurse-servant, who is forced to raise other people's children in order to feed their own. And then what? The child says to the teacher: "You are my real mother, Abi!" Oh, that's a shame.
The movie makes you think, and that’s important. First of all, we need such a division into white and black, good and bad, what the consequences of such a separation are and how justified it is. What role does a mother play for her own child and can she be replaced by someone?
In general, food for thought "Maid" gives a lot and it will be interesting to viewers of all ages. You will be able to see it, or you will be able to see it. So let's go!
The United States loves patriotic films. More than once we have seen valiant American Marines on the screen carrying “justice and education” to “decaying” countries – in a word, democracy. After all, in their homeland, justice and equality before the law bloom magnificently. And the rights of people of color are sometimes defended with particular fanaticism. But under what circumstances was it unacceptable to call a Negro a Negro? This is a simple truth written in biology textbooks. Here we need to look at the history of the issue and see that everything was not so smooth in the laws of the United States of the mid-twentieth century. African-Americans, considered second-class people at the time, living solely to serve white aristocrats, were subjected to humiliation and persecution, strongly reminiscent of Nazi Germany of the 30s. This is what tells us the picture "The servant" based on the book of the same name Katherine Stockett.
The film tells in all its colors about the life of black servants in the United States in the 1960s. Housekeeping for white families at the time was a ceiling for African-American women who had grown accustomed to dusty work and poverty since childhood. The use of a separate toilet, separate cutlery and the like was only the tip of the iceberg of a biased attitude. The Ku Klux Klan could shoot a Negro almost with impunity. Among these terrible remnants of the time of colonization was the heroine of the painting Aibileen, serving one of the happy American families. Meekness and silent obedience are what keep the maids in mind and help them to work day in and day out for a meager salary. Trade unions do not work here and you can lose your job simply because of the bad mood of the owner. But the world is not without good people. For Aibileen, such a person becomes a young journalist Skeeter, who decided to help convey the pleas of African Americans for leniency to the masters.
The Maid is undoubtedly a pretty bright film that teaches us a lot, mainly compassion. During the viewing, thanks to the impeccable play of the actors, the degree of immersion goes off the scale and tears grow in your eyes. In some moments, you can sincerely laugh together with the heroes who, despite the urgency and injustice, find the strength to joke. It's a movie about strong people. They achieved recognition not through revolutions and riots, but through incredible ingenuity. It is worth seeing the picture, because despite the severity of the topic raised, there are a lot of bright moments. Movies like this help in times of despair. You won’t have to miss the whole time. There's nothing superfluous here. I assure you. Tate Taylor coped with the adaptation of the hard five and was an exceptional example when a person with a poor director's portfolio was really promising!
Much has been said and written about The Help, the stream of praise criticism has reached our Palestinians, and then the high audience ratings of the film were supported by a heap of Oscar nominations. The higher the expectations, the greater the surprise and bewilderment after watching. The viewer faces a rather typical sentimental and moral picture with biased accents, as if specially sharpened to touch the left-liberal jury of film festivals and once again surf on the undiminished American wave of political correctness and self-incriminating digging in its own past. All things in order.
America, the beginning of the sixties, a small town, Mississippi - the most suede-segregation in the entire swampy American South. Modern cars, televisions and music have already arrived here, but the way of life remains ancient, patriarchal. For the order of things are customs, the Ku Klux Klan and the usual way of mind. White - white, black - black, white holen-groomed beauties drink ice tea on verandas and play bridge with friends in the evenings, black maids wash, iron and clean, and are also responsible for the upbringing of the younger descendants of planters and knights of the South.
Everything was fine, steady and familiar, until a young girl Skeeter (Emma Stone) burst into town. She herself was born here, after leaving the town for four years to study in college, then unsuccessfully tried to get a job in a reputable New York magazine and now, on the shield, returned back to her native backwoods to her parents’ white mansion with columns, where she can only rivet empty articles on housekeeping in a local newspaper and dream of a wonderful leap in her career. Somehow a foolish thought leads her to the idea of writing a series of notes from the difficult life of black servants and, explaining to a couple of gossip girls from familiar maids, how they are oppressed, she sets to work. Soon a series of scandalous sketches from the life of the inhabitants of the town is ready.
The southern American states are a complex and unique society, especially in the fifties and sixties, when written and unwritten laws, fragments of Confederate law, mixed with the forcibly imposed rules of the game of the victorious North, were densely infused with the unspoken customs of race relations developed in the century after the Civil War. It is necessary to approach this culture extremely carefully - any wrong movement, not so accented radically change the whole picture into the hands of the interested interpreter. So in the “Salvage” there is actually a black-and-white, in the literal and not the most original sense, a picture of the confrontation between the rich, white, effeminately evil and poor-oppressed-black-good fellow citizens. The spectacle is, to put it mildly, biased and, as far as I understand, seriously changing the essence and meaning of the original novel. The calculation is simple – although the days of segregation ended not so long ago, for most viewers this is already a mythical era, which means you can sculpt anything. The film tolerates everything, and in sentimentality it is better to go through than to miss.
Even if you consider the characters in detail – the vast majority of white heroes and heroines are presented, to put it mildly, not in a positive light, in turn, all black heroes are virtuous. Even a maid who stole a ring from her mistress should elicit sympathy from the viewer. How - not enough for the son for college $ 75 - tragedy
The main character, who grew up in this environment from birth, suddenly realizes that servants are brutally oppressed. The truth of oppression is that the servants are not allowed into the master's toilet, no more is found. It is unlikely that an eight-hour working day, meals, and exorbitant for most European contemporaries, not to mention Soviet citizens, wages under two hundred then still strong dollars can be considered slave conditions. Suddenly, an understanding of oppression coincides with a search for “sharp” material and dissatisfaction in personal life. Finding a couple of maids offended by the owners, she immediately rivets a collection of gossip from the bedrooms and kitchens of the inhabitants of the town and sells them profitably. In fact, the naive black women were simply used, although they were shared with the fee. A young white girl can go to New York to reap her laurels, and they will stay here, with a very real Ku Klux Klan and a wolf ticket to work.
All these events take place against the template for such pseudo-historical dramas of the lynchings, speeches of Martin Luther King and the assassination of Kennedy. Is there a movie in the Sixties where Americans don’t cry over the assassination of their president? Especially in the South, where the Irish-Catholic whites did not like much. The set of templates is complemented by the role of the Old Wise Negro, a dozen spoiled White Scoundrels and long panoramas of plantation mansions. Acting is quite average. It is difficult to understand black actresses - their problems are painfully inflated, white ones merge so much into the same type of crowd, with the exception of several heroines that they are difficult to distinguish. Emma Stone - one of the best young actresses in Hollywood, this time did not strike especially with her performance. Looking into her astonished, wide-open eyes, the Girl who lived here all her life and just saw her eyes wants to shout “I don’t believe.” More reliable look surprised and angry faces of her friends, gradually realizing that familiar since childhood girlfriend begins to collect gossip and quietly scour their closets in search of skeletons. The only one that can be noted is the bright role of Allison Janney, in the pre-final scene on the porch, which showed the wolf’s rock, accumulated over a dozen years of filming in the West Wing.
In summary, this film can be considered a opportunistic caricature of the really strong and stunning foundations of the work about interracial problems. After all, there were real difficulties in the South – like the Lynch trials, white supremacist crimes, punishments for intermarriage and, of course, all this interested socially concerned authors who trumpeted the problems of their small homeland everywhere. Fortunately, the southern states are rich in bright and talented writers. You can remember at least Capote, Lee, Warren, Faulkner. Since the early sixties, Kramer, Jewison and Parker have made great, and most importantly true, films about segregation. If the viewer is interested in the evil satire on the southern society of those years, you can recall Penn’s “The Chase”. In any case, there is more than enough material on the problems described in the “Salvage”. And most importantly, it is much better quality than this vainly praised film.
6 out of 10
This is my first experience writing reviews for a film of this genre. It seems to me that it is more difficult to express one’s opinion, impressions, etc., etc., about a dramatic film before the first attack of nausea. But we still have to start somewhere.
I definitely liked the movie. Very kind, life-affirming, making you believe that good and justice always prevail over malice, envy and other vices of society.
I liked the reproduction of an entire era in the history of the United States, the order inherent in it, the laws of society and the state.
Actors of the main roles Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer coped with their roles not only by 10, by all 11 points. They both deserve the recognition they have received for their roles. Bravo!
Emma Stone in this case fully showed her dramatic talent. No wonder I always liked this girl not only outwardly, but also for her talent.
Bry Dallas Howard appeared here as the real personification of Evil in this film. Her image is so disgusting that it is almost impossible not to wish her, if not death, then at least a long and painful illness.
What I liked most about this is Jessica Chastain. Kind, childishly naive and direct, in principle, she is not able to do anyone wrong and is a kind of counterweight to the heroine Bryce Dallas Howard. And in my opinion, Jessica deserves all the awards, existing and fictional, for her participation in The Help.
So, this film should be watched by everyone who wants to see a real spiritual story about friendship, love and hatred, about good and evil, about the light and dark sides of each person.
A VERYBODY SEE!
Racial discrimination has always been a sensitive topic. Martin Luther King, leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, said, “I have a dream.” What he meant, you can understand if you watch this movie. A piercing drama that exposes a whole range of human feelings and vices.
Mississippi State. '60s. It's not an easy time for America. A time of change for black Americans. Skeeter (Emma Watson) is a young girl who received an excellent education. She is smart, beautiful, full of strength and creative plans, but her main feature is a sharpened sense of justice. Therefore, when she returns to her hometown, open dislike of black people causes her a storm of emotions. Belonging to a certain social caste and fair skin oblige her to observe federal laws and unspoken rules of the town, whose inhabitants live on the principle: "Blacks are slaves, whites are masters." Provincial narrow-mindedness and snobbishness of the highest standard of individual citizens makes this persecution absurd, leaving black people no right to happiness. “My mother was a servant and my grandmother a slave in the house. “I knew I was going to be a servant,” the movie begins. Skeeter will face a “difficult struggle with windmills” – the city’s grand ladies and their husbands, representatives of the local elite. In fact, overzealous bitches and cowardly parody of men hiding behind women's skirts.
Emma Watson's brilliant performance. Honored Academy Awards Octavia Spencer for her role as Minnie and Viola Davis (Ennabel). Performed stiffness and snobbery, behind which there is only weakness and self-doubt in the performance of Bryce Dallas Howard and the pain of losing the most valuable for a woman - a child behind the superficial lightness and fun performed by Jessica Chastain. All this must be seen with your own eyes.
Sixties. USA. At this time we have corn, Khrushchev, five-story buildings, money reform, space... Our ancestors wanted to go further, higher, stronger.
And no one in the Soviet Union could have imagined that in the United States, racial segregation still reached such proportions. This is in such an enlightened time. A citizen of the Soviet Union is incomprehensible, alien and disgusted with the idea that one person can be better than another only because of the color of his skin. But the ocean was different. And since the end of the Civil War and the formal abolition of slavery, little has changed in the US de facto. Negroes, colored people - so remained second-class people. They have separate seats on the bus, separate benches, separate latrines, hairdressers, neighborhoods, etc. Let me remind you that this is not the time of the wild west, but the 20th century, the second half, this is the United States – the most democratic democrats and the citadel of human rights in general (as American propaganda and our corrupt media now want to present it to us).
A film about the difficult fate of the black population of America on the example of maids. They suffer, they tolerate the stupidity of the white housewives, they cannot open their mouths. It turns out that a black woman can not just go to college, get an education, and, as it is fashionable for us now to say, to realize themselves. Sometimes she can’t even go to school because she has to feed her family. Black women get the lowest paid, hardest and unskilled work.
As the film progresses, we see white housewives holding receptions to help “poor black children,” expressing false concerns. Falsehood and deception. It is typical of the United States to do one thing and to advocate and say another.
Hollywood is such a powerful tool of America that it can only be compared to a hydrogen bomb. There is now propaganda in our world. The truth is a lie, like Orwell. “Truth” is what the media say. Movies like The Help are designed to launder American society from what was not so long ago, that not everyone was so racist, and there were many journalists like Emma Stone, who are for truth, equality and fraternity.
But that's a lie. American-English society cannot live in equality. Now they have come up with a new project – “positive discrimination”, when whites are inferior to blacks.
I think this film is worth watching today’s youth, so excited by everything Western, grew up bathing in Hollywood propaganda. I hope not everything is lost.
«Yeah, I`m goin» to Jackson, Look out Jackson town»
Despite the depth of my consciousness when choosing movies to watch, quality films are becoming rarer. I’m not going to talk about masterpieces...
But fortunately, individual creations of world cinema still leave vivid impressions, and sometimes even make us think a little about important topics.
One of them is "The Help."
'60s. America. Mississippi State. The relationship between master and servant.
It would seem that the amendment that abolished slavery for almost a hundred years was ratified by the efforts of Lincoln, and slavery did not go anywhere. Only his appearance slightly changed, hiding behind the mask of hired service.
Discrimination is rampant. Freedom is an illusion. Hypocrisy and lies rule the ball.
In society, everyone has his own role, to go beyond which means to expose himself to censure and even exile.
Someone, having raised seventeen “master” children and losing their only family, has come to terms with this state of affairs, someone desperately shows his disobedience, risking everything, but the vast majority tolerates, is silent and does not expect change.
However, “The Servant” is not so much a film about the humiliated and insulted, about the struggle for their rights or revolution in society, as it is about hope: even the most calm and deeply humbled person can change the world. Change really starts with a whisper.
It is important that there is a caring person who will help you believe in yourself.
And Aibileen (Viola Davis) had such a man. Skitter (Emma Stone), who loved her nanny no less than her mother, perfectly understood that the color of her skin does not affect the decency of her owner, and labels will never be able to obscure the true content.
Perhaps the picture is not replete with historical facts of interracial unrest of that time, but the amazing play of actors who managed to convey not only all the pain, fear and despair of their characters, but also the joy of faith that suddenly appeared in them, compensates for everything.
Belief in your right to a decent life. Believe that things can be different.
P.S. Mississippi is the last state to officially abolish slavery. But this happened only in February 2013.
I thought I'd spend the evening alone with a soulful film. I’ve heard good reviews about the movie “The Servant”, and the Academy Award is simply not given, agree! I checked with "Kinopoisk" - a very high rating. The truth is that Oscar only for the role of the second plan a little alarmed, but the horses at the crossing do not change, decided to watch.
I hasten to assure you that I am a cosmopolitan by conviction and believe that all people are equal. But the Americans, with their guilt complex to the Negroes and the Indians, are already so jaw-dropping. And the seditious idea creeps up that we are making a film about how our country oppresses anyone, and even a prestigious award will be given. There are a lot of movies about slavery, don’t you think?
Briefly about the plot. '50s. A young and very ambitious girl returns home to her good old South, where, as we remember, slavery was abolished, but apparently the Negroes were not told about it. Because they fear the loss of their jobs worse than death, bearing all the neglect of their owners. This is what our writer wants to write her first book about, because the struggle of blacks for their rights is gaining momentum in America. And although the actress took the lead role is quite cute, we are indoctrinated that she is ugly, the character is explosive and intolerant, and as a result, no one takes her to marry. So it seems that her protest against the existing foundations is a desire to assert itself.
Negro women, who are actually servants, also behave not perfectly. They do some inappropriate things, they dare. And everything in the long-standing American tradition revolves around a fecal theme. Which is disappointing.
In general, the story, in my opinion, did not work out very well. The manuscript of the novel on which the film was directed was rejected by 60 publishers before it was accepted, and after that the novel suddenly shot.
What was great was the actors’ play. It is thanks to their efforts that you can withstand 2.5 hours of screen time.
I don’t know who to recommend watching this movie. I wouldn’t recommend it to my friends.
It's 1963. In Dallas, snipers are killed by a bullet by the 35th US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the future Mohammed Ali, and then Cassius Clay is preparing for the first fight for the championship title with Sonny Liston, and Martin Luther King, the future man of the year according to Time magazine, takes place at the head of the march on Washington, at the end of which at the Lincoln memorial he gives his famous speech “I Have a Dream”, where he talks about the days of the American nation when black and white citizens will coexist as equals. Against the background of all this, a young graduate of the university Eugenia “Skiter” Phelan returns to her native provincial Jackson, the capital of perhaps the most conservative US state of Mississippi, cherishing a dream of one day becoming a writer.
That's the background. And in fact, for all the undoubted merits of the film, its weakest point is, oddly enough, directing. As someone who is well acquainted with the source, I can judge that Tate Taylor had a truly excellent material in his hands, from which it was very difficult to make something completely useless. And although comparing a book with a film is generally ungrateful and not entirely ethical, a number of shortcomings of the film remain regardless of bias, and in comparison only appear more obvious.
As is often the case, the film has lost the book’s delicate atmosphere and mood. From the total sense of paranoia and constant doubts of the characters, which were so well captured in the novel, almost nothing remained in the film adaptation. The picture barely manages to put most of the main plot twists into the allotted timekeeping, offering its basic ideas as a set of iron rules and axioms. The narrative of the film unfolds like a canvas of hostilities, where on one side stands the “army of darkness” in the form of the white population of Jackson led by Hilly Holbrook, and on the other – the “forces of good” in the face of the black maids of the city with Skeeter unknown as crouched into their ranks. The film does not reflect the fears of some black people associated with the occupation of Phelan, the reluctance to help her, as well as the fact that there are many white people who care for their servants, hiding it for fear of Holbrooke. In this regard, the film is completely black and white, no matter how pun it sounds. The viewer is invited to guess for himself what is so dangerous Hilly, who in the film looks rather hysterical and stupid special, or what caused Skeeter’s attention to racial problems.
But there are also bright moments. First of all, I want to note the cast, which for the most part is almost one hundred percent hit. The story is almost completely devoid of male characters, which, in general, is very appropriate. After all, men can only kill, and murder is hardly an effective method against an idea. But women's gossip and speculation can destroy at the root and pervert even the brightest motives. Perhaps the only more or less noticeable male face is Phelan's friend Stuart Whitworth, who in fact could be thrown out of the film with a clear conscience, so carelessly his story is glued to the main plot canvas.
In the rest, the cinema is quite a worthy classic example in the theme of the “American South”, as original as the cult novel by Mitchell, sultry and dreary as Faulkner’s best works, life wise as the famous creation of Harper Lee and proud and wayward as the whole work of the Lynyrd Skynyrd group.
8 out of 10
18 people died in Jackson that day - 10 whites and 8 blacks. God does not think about skin color when he releases a tornado.
Interestingly, this film has such a high rating. What does he do with people who give him high marks? I decided to find out, even though I knew that it was a typical American film, trying to show an important problem of the past (in this case, the division into black and white, masters and servants). The film is a woman, as well as once “Eat, Pray, Love”, which I gave low scores in my time, for the superficiality and playful ease of life.
From the first notes, the view is imposed on the viewer that the masters are fattened and awesome, and the servants are innocent, good. It’s like you’re on the side of black people who don’t have to go to a separate toilet, have higher salaries, better living conditions, etc. But if you look unbiased - they live this way, because this was how their mothers, their grandmothers and great-grandmothers lived. From childhood, they are prepared to prepare, clean and raise the children of people of high society, without expressing their discontent.
Our world is unfair, there is almost nothing we can do about it, but we must always try. There are always rebels trying to turn things around. One of them is the main character. For which, again, all viewers are rooting for her to rescue black people from captivity.
The epigraph contains words that make it clear that people divide themselves into good and bad, God does not provide for this. And if someone in society agreed to be inferior, then he makes a big mistake, condemning entire generations to suffering.
Summing up, the film well showed the American time, the characters of the masters and their subordinates, but did not like its predictability, imposition of sympathies, bias.
Only the person who experienced emotions in childhood, like the main character - Skeeter Philan, will be able to appreciate this work.
This young, fragile, but out of years wise girl was guided by one feeling - kindness. This kindness was instilled in her by her “named mother,” the maid of her parental home, Constantine. Not a real, biological, but this, a strange woman, and moreover, black (at that time, in general, total garbage, and it seems, should have been angry at the whole world).
Only thanks to this nanny, the main character was able to make a great feat. Skeeter managed to deal with his personal life, with his problems at work, with misunderstanding with his mother, and most importantly, she figured out herself.
The film has a lot of lines and branches. And all of them, without exception, cause a storm of emotions. Honestly, I cried, in many moments of the film, I really cried. They were able to get me to look inside.
Make sure you look. I know that even in our modern world, the subject of racism, unfortunately, is still relevant. Perhaps you will rethink something for yourself after watching it, as I did.
A low bow to the team of professionals and deep gratitude.
The most important advantage of the film is a very accurate representation of the atmosphere and spirit of the era described. I wasn’t living in the U.S. at the time, but I read a lot of documentary and fiction and the film surprised me. The first association that arose is a scene from the legendary Forrest Gump, where they tell the story of a black family and their ancestral work in the rich people of the South serving shrimp. However, we have a more dramatic vision of the subject. In the early '60s, in many states, blacks were not considered to be full-fledged people. They were deprived of the actual ability to vote, to enjoy many public goods on an equal footing with white people. We see it all in the small town of Jackson, Mississippi. On the one hand, black women have been run as domestic servants for decades, but are forced to use a separate toilet in the house at some point. Of course, there is a contradiction here: white mothers believe that servants can get some outlandish diseases, but at the same time trust them to care for the child. One of the heroines does not pay time to his little daughter.
I think that the attempt to combine elements of drama and comedy in one film, even in the same scenes, was a success – probably that’s why the story is so disposed. It is also interesting in that it was about as it actually was – the era was not invented. We see the stunning fashion of the 60s - women in bright dresses, lace hats. We see bright gardens, manicured houses with a white fence and luxurious lawns. Everyone seems so friendly, but they are not. This society has its downside - the historical division of people along racial lines. And when there is a place for selfish and vile people in such a world, you can expect anything. A few such characters, rest assured, will be shown in all its glory. I immediately noted that the events of that time were used as a historical background: the struggle for civil rights, the assassination of President Kennedy, the riots.
As for acting, this is a separate topic for conversation - in a pleasant sense. The two main images of black female domestics have received numerous nominations for prestigious awards. I totally agree with that attention. The actresses managed to convey bitterness, despair, hope for a bright future, irony - and all this sometimes simultaneously in one expression of the face. But the career of Emma Stone is gaining momentum in recent years - we wish her creative success.
For a long time I could not understand the hype around this film, and I was intrigued by high ratings and praise reviews. Indeed, the film touches somewhere deep inside, it is interesting and not boring. A magnificent dramatic story with rare comedy inserts, gives a real kaleidoscope of emotions.
America! In which many of us have never been and will never be. O America, of which the whole globe of the earth knows, of which it judges, and which it loves and sees with your own eyes.
Yes, the film is about the "good old" America, only ... a little different.
I confess honestly, from the beginning of the viewing there was a desire that is called “read diagonally”, but pretty soon a quite harmonious idea of the tape emerged (such a red, curly :)) and if seriously pleased with the lack of obsessive political correctness, so you can look boldly, without fear of an allergic reaction to hypocrisy.
The picture tells rather not about interracial relations but about the great power of prejudices and this is done without excessive obsession with the good play of actors.
There are a couple of inflections near the end that should not have been emphasized. And also amused by the applause in honor of one of the heroines ... but look and judge for yourself.
.. this is about the nastyness that can be cultivated in each and overcome it will not be so easy.
[It's a pity you can't give fractional estimates, it's closer to 7.5]
I first learned about this film at the presentation of "Oscar". But somehow I was not particularly interested in it then, maybe then I still grew up to such a movie. Moreover, I did not know that this film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name Katherine Stockett. And I watched it just because I decided to watch Oscar-winning movies.
At first glance, the plot is simple. Looking at the first twenty minutes, I thought what a mess... But having firmly learned the lesson that it is necessary to evaluate films only after watching, I did not turn off the player and decided to watch, because it is not for nothing that the film was nominated for an Oscar.
Although at first glance the picture seems ordinary, but in fact harbors a deep meaning. Yes, the main idea of the film is racial discrimination, but not only that — there slips the topic of domestic violence, and stereotypes, and the relationship of mothers with their children and much more. You just have to look at it.
I felt very sorry for black people, because they had almost no rights. It's very unfair. It is not fair to punish people for who they are. And the main character, an ordinary maid, made a very brave act, telling the world her story, and then convincing others of this. Yes, it may have been risky on the one hand, but if we did not act, then this nightmare would never have ended. Of course, each person is afraid when faced with a difficult choice, which will have certain consequences. But inaction is not an option either. And the main character, realizing this, took a very risky step. Yes, it has not brought about a global change in society, but it is a small step towards victory. It is better to regret the perfect than the missed opportunities.
The cast of actors is truly gorgeous! Everyone wants to be praised. There was no superfluous character, they were like pieces of a puzzle made up a single whole. Emma Stone as a journalist who was not spoiled by a privileged life looked great. I want to praise Viola Davis for her character - a simple but very brave maid. Bryce Dallas Howard also coped with the role of a spoiled rich girl, you really disgust her heroine. Octavia Spencer deservedly received Oscar for the role Mini - a very bright and interesting character. Jessica Chastain is also very good in the role of a simple kind girl who miraculously got into the "high light". I also remember Sissy Spacek as a eccentric rich lady. She made me really happy. And about Mike Vogel I want to say, "What a man! I want the same! You can write about caste for a long time, but I will close.
Am I going to believe all the bad things that fools will say about me today?
I really liked the picture. At the same time, and household, and somewhat pompously sweet. It combines the simple life of maids, and the life of rich ladies. The picture is generally built on the contrast of these two worlds.
In general, a very entertaining film with a great story and a wonderful acting game, which will make you sincerely worry about the characters, and then think about a lot. Definitely worth watching!
Everything is good in it: acting, music, plot... You can see that the creators did the work. The topic of racial segregation, not only in the '60s, but also in the earlier years, is very interesting to me, especially from the point of view of music: the servants, whether it's a black slave from a cotton field or a babysitter - they stand at the roots of American music, they are the roots, or rather, their black blues. That’s why I started watching this movie, hoping to find something in it... I don’t know, the American spirit, black or whatever. And what I ended up getting... The Americans made an American movie about Americans. Not even American, no, Hollywood, with tears, speeches, snot, etc., etc. Well, their crown '... and the main character to the solemn, but sad music quietly goes into the sunset. .' I was just finished. A one-off movie. Maybe the book is more interesting and we got the product of a talentless director? Who knows. . .
Another slick, maximally Hollywoodized, violently rigged for festivals (Oscar in mind) and overly self-loving story...
Thinking about the discrimination of blacks in America in the 60s, the place of which certainly was in the South, in the epicenter of Mississippi, a person lying on the couch may accidentally wake up with a feeling of resentment and resentment against the entire human race, society, the system. What is it? Peace. However, recalling Alan Parker’s brilliant 1988 film on the subject, where the action, incidentally, also takes place in Mississippi, watching this work awkwardly asks the question: what to fight for? For what? For the smile of Bryce Dallas Howard's character to some black lady and a nod of a happy face in return? This reminds me of the beautiful Hawaiian tragedy of millionaires in a general pile of drug addiction and lawlessness, in which Hollywood cinema was at one point mired.
Speaking of which. Tate Taylor’s desire to film a really important and sensational story taking place in his hometown is undoubtedly commendable, but the confusion and jumps of the script, the understatement of many small stories (although it would seem as much as 140 minutes and so timekeeping), the non-disclosure or incorrect disclosure of a number of main characters, and just a certain number of scenes, well, to the hens for laugh, the honor of his work is clearly not done. It was important to show the general tragedy of American history, taking place, in contrast to “Mississippi on Fire” already in the capital and most populous city of Mississippi, but the one-sided movement of the director, whose vector is set against inappropriate treatment of blacks, is something that would fit as a fairy tale to modern unspoiled African-American minors from their grandmothers, along with a number of judicial cases in the 80s and 90s, lying on the same shelf with the case of O.J. Simpson.
Confession, if such conjectures were to be found in Taylor's ideas, clearly does not correspond to the scale of the perennial American problem. And even a caustic mockery in response to von Trier’s “Manderley” in the face of, again, the heroine Howard can only evoke the grin of the Danish master, who so skillfully pinched all of America.
Stylistically, the drama is executed to disgust aristocratically. The atmosphere is inappropriate, to put it mildly, as I was convinced while watching the movie “Ray”, which was also directed by a white director. The main acting work, of course, amazing, there is no dispute. Well, touching to tears moments are also filmed quite themselves on the level of “Hachiko” or “What Eats Gilbert Grape”. However...
Another slick, maximally Hollywoodized, violently rigged for festivals (Oscar in mind) and overly self-loving story...
6 out of 10
18 people died in Jackson that day - 10 whites and 8 blacks. God does not think about skin color when he releases a tornado.
I literally fell in love with this movie. He is...so real, alive, kind, inspiring. As well as his characters, for whom I also imbued with great sympathy and respect.
And in my opinion, it deserved an Oscar no less, maybe more, than The Artist, because it’s not just a beautiful picture or an interesting story. This is a movie that teaches us, however banal it may sound, that beauty is not in any external qualities, but in what we have inside, in our actions. It teaches you to respect people regardless of their skin color. It teaches you to fight for true justice, not to follow the lead of the majority by strangling your own opinion.
And as long as society divides people into white and black, such pictures will be relevant, and here it should be noted that, unfortunately, the abominable problem of discrimination still remains unsolved finally to this day.
I can only add that I will definitely add this film to my collection and recommend it to my friends. One of the best pictures I have seen recently. A movie that made me laugh, cry, believe.
9 out of 10
In terms of acting - all without exception, the actors managed to realize "characteristic" and rather complex characters.
In terms of the main idea of the film is the idea of fighting for the right to be yourself and for the right to live your own life. And, most interestingly, the conflict between the characters was not caused by the primitive reason “one side is good and the other side is bad” – the conflict was caused by the desire of each side to live the life they believed to be theirs. In general, good literature is very much felt as the basis of this film and even the artistic nature of this literature.
In terms of directorial skills – to reveal each character, to show the growth of the main ones – without “chewing”, characteristic of modern, or proto-mediocinema. And what I'm most impressed with is that the director didn't feel in the background: I saw people I could meet in real life and I didn't feel like it was just a movie. Empathy — the feeling that I think film art and art in general should elicit — was 100 percent present.
Still, I can’t understand what exactly, but this film lacks the slightest bit to call it a masterpiece. However, I have the courage to put
Why, why haven’t I seen this movie before? It was on my list of desirable viewers for almost six months. Even a shame, because after watching you want to endlessly shout “Bravo!” director, screenwriter, team of actors, and indeed all the creators. This painting has definitely become my favorite. I've probably never seen anything so believable. Here again I want to recall the “Kingdom of the Full Moon”, where a lot of money was spent to recreate the spirit of those times. The most interesting thing is that the creators artificially focus on this. In "The Help" everything is simple and everything is real. The viewer as if for 2 hours really found himself in America of those years.
Everything is so delicately felt, only the most important thing is shown. There is a heartbreaking misunderstanding: how could people treat other people (even blacks) so cruelly that they present themselves as animals against the background of blacks with kind and open souls ready to raise white children? And not just raise, but give them love, worry about their health, about their future. “You’re smart, you’re kind, you’re priceless!” the maid endlessly repeats to her little pupil, whose mother never even took the baby in her arms. At the end of the film, justice was done, but in this case it was a non-trivial ending, because until the last minute I was afraid it would turn into a drama. Of course, the film itself is a drama. A lot of feelings and emotions, a lot of problems are raised, but if you write about them in a review, then it will cease to be a review. Unbelievable! I was so glad that something else from the movies could make me so happy! Looks on one breath, humor is elegant, built on looks and a half smile. Incredibly realistic, I repeat. I can’t imagine anyone who wouldn’t like the movie The Maid. I don’t want to write about the Oscars for the supporting role, because if I had my will, the Oscars would be given to everyone who touched the creation of The Help with a little finger.
Somewhere I saw a rubric, or something called: “Films that will change your worldview about life.” "Maids" can definitely be included here. You don’t often see the world through the eyes of a maid who also suffers from racial discrimination.
The society in the film is divided in half. The first half are rich girls (it is strange that male images in the picture are practically absent), the second is black servants. Suddenly, a Skeeter is revealed between them, who decides in every possible way to help the second half by compiling a book. Is this book necessary? It's not clear even after watching. I don't know who's better off.
The film itself is very light, not dramatic. Here more involved in the problem, without creating any illusions. This is good – no one would like the extra entourage. But. Show this story twenty years earlier and you can say something about the masterpiece. In the meantime, this is a good film, with a very unusual plot and problem for modern cinema.
The positiveness of the picture is the atmosphere. A brilliant performance from the '60s. Plus all the cute music and the incomparable Octavia Spencer, who deserved her only Oscar.
Tate Taylor is not the most recognizable director. In the case of the movie “The Servant”, it is safe to say that the creation became known to the creator. I would not like to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the film, because really high-quality films are better to watch than to discuss. Moreover, it is difficult to compile an integral verbal composition that reveals the essence of the action, which absorbed no less from the mystery of theatrical productions than from cinema.
In this picture there are no fantastic visual effects, it does not give you thrills and will not lead to ecstasy from mind-blowing plot twists. However, the viewer gets something more from watching this film, or at least something that does not lie on the surface, which is not always accessible to consciousness, but easily resonates with our feelings, experiences and emotional impulses.
We live in a world where public opinion has long put slavery on the list of the gravest sins of mankind, where on every corner they shout about the abomination of hypocrisy, where the word “nigger” is considered indecent by many. But at the same time, this is the same world where prejudice reaches the verge of stupidity that not only borders on the absurd, but is already absurd, where poverty is considered a contagious disease, the words “rich” and “successful” have become synonymous, and people with disabilities are shunned or at best feel only pity for them.
Almost half a century has passed since the events described in the film “The Servant”, the way of life, the set of household appliances in our homes, the world fashion has changed its appearance several dozen times, but people have changed too little since then. That is why this picture is of interest not only from the aesthetic point of view, but also from the point of view of the worldview.
I would also like to mention a few bright advantages of the film, which are often forgotten behind the lace of the necessary and sometimes overly beautiful words about tolerance and tolerance.
Firstly, this is the plot of the picture, which is a fascinating and intriguing narrative without the much-loved murders, an abundance of blood, monsters and monsters, without epic battles, space landscapes and 3D pictures. Sincere empathy for the heroes is the litmus test of the work of the writer and director (no matter how hackneyed it sounds).
The main advantage of this film is its actors. I'm convinced that few people would argue that The Help has an amazing cast. And that's just by name. Playing actresses is the very thing that people have appreciated in the theater for centuries since the ancient mysteries in honor of Dionysus. Here we are not talking about a pleasant appearance or natural photogenicity (which, of course, is also important when performing certain roles and that I personally appreciate within reasonable limits too), but about the coitus of the actor with his character, about penetration into the inner world of his hero, about accepting the psychological picture of his personality. Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain are admired both in terms of visual perception (a successful casting, the selection of actresses for specific roles, the ideal ratio of appearance-character), and from the evaluation of their direct acting work.
I consider the film “The Help” one of the best in its genre and I hope that you will not deny yourself the pleasure to watch and appreciate it.
10 out of 10
"I have a dream!" "I have a dream!" Martin Luther King, 28 August 1963 “Every man must decide for himself whether he will move in the light of creative humanity or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the Last Judgment. This is the most persistent and main question that life asks us. What are you doing for others? Wherever injustice is committed, it threatens justice throughout the world.
Skin color, species, social status, certain ideological views or beliefs, wallet size, education, belonging to a certain class, intelligence, beauty, establish some incomprehensible boundaries for ourselves, diseases or certain other physical features of our body, race, nationality, language, citizenship, and so on to infinity - we all seem to be aliens, sometimes a neighbor lives somewhere on Mars, and a simple person who sometimes needs help somewhere from another reality for us and closes one another, through certain naphantasized by some kind of spiritual characteristics, we all seem to be quite equal to each other in reality, and we do not even think about ourselves, but we are very much about ourselves in our spiritually, and in fact we are not all those who are so dear to each other, but we are very close to ourselves. We tend to measure success by the size of wages or the novelty of the car model, rather than the quality of our service to people and our relationship with humanity. To serve people, you don’t have to have a degree. You do not need to be able to reconcile the subject and the predicate. Don't know about Plato and Aristotle. You don’t need to know Einstein’s theory of relativity. To serve people, you only need a heart full of mercy. We need a soul created by love. "Martin Luther King", We are not robots and not computers, if the future will be then I think two world wars we definitely will not do, because one has already tried for a certain race, at the cost of millions of innocent victims and all for what - I do not understand, we are all the same and we are all equal ("We consider self-evident the truth that all people were created equal ") and we should understand this and not rise above others, because now I do not have to live in my own world, but I should not live in this way /b>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What we have now in XXI century, almost the same as in the film "The Servant", only the wrapper has changed and the filling remains the same, only with an even more bitter taste of inequality and problems between people, if in the film the main problem is racial inequality between blacks and whites in the 1960s, now every year such incomprehensible and cruel conflicts become even more, at least one dream of M. L. King to some extent came true: " I dream that one of one of one of a slave sons sitting next to the table of the former slaves of Georges ... That one day even Mississippi, crippled under the yoke of oppression, will become an oasis of freedom and justice. That my four children will one day live among a people who will judge them not by the color of their skin, but by the qualities of their character ... I will be an idealist and allow myself to run in advance and dream that another of his dreams will come true, which is now very relevant : "Someone should remind us that, although there are political and ideological differences between us, the Vietnamese are our brothers, the Chinese are our brothers; and one day we will all sit together at the fraternal table, which is now very relevant >, if it is not easy and sad for us, but for the sake of God, it is not a friend."
The slogan of the film “The Help” can and we are able to change something, because everything depends only on us whether we will be able to admit our mistakes and cover all our sins with something really good and beautiful or dare to give a helping hand to our neighbor, improve and enrich ourselves spiritually and not materially, etc., perhaps all hope dies last and everything in our hands because after a protracted storm, a warm sunny day should come for people, for sons and daughters of freedom and equality ...
The film about the small struggle for equality and freedom of the "Servant" clearly touches on the topic of racial discrimination and inhuman treatment of people who are the same as us, the color of the skin, and that, perhaps, as the heroine of the film "Violi Davis" / b> They all really drank a lot of coffee , it is not the color of the skin that determines a person but his actions, his attitude to other people, his kindness... The time interval of the film Sixties of the XX century - > the catalyst for the sake of the world, King, it is not that he has finally become a great man, for the sake of the sake of the world, but for the sake of the world, he has become a great man, for the sake of the sake of the sake of the one who has not to be a man, for the sake of the sake of the world, he has become a great man, and for the sake of the sake of the one who has become a man, for the one who has become a great man, The direct translation of "The Help" sounds like ""Help",, so help each other and try to be good because surely God will pay you a hundredfold for your good.
The film is extremely warm, sincere and kindly simple, all thanks to the director and his team and actors, whose heroes are associated with certain elements of one small but important mechanism in the machine of cardinal changes, changes that will significantly improve our lives, no matter how hard and alien it may seem to us and there are still good people who are driving the good force who strives for a better, for a free future. Thank you all for such a wonderful, philosophical and simply pleasant film "The Help", thank you. A good production of the film, a good plot, a good idea, a beautiful play of actors, a well-deserved Oscar for Octavia Spencer - the film is brilliantly simple and quite deep, after watching which there is something to think about.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last. - My dream and yours. From every mountainside, let freedom, freedom, freedom ring!!
10 out of 10
Perhaps, at first glance, “The Servant” is a film about, let’s say, “peaceful” racism. Most light-skinned characters treat black servants as not quite human. It's scary to go to the same toilet with them, it's scary to eat at the same table with them and so on. But not everyone shares such beliefs, and some even find the strength to resist it.
The main idea of this film seemed to me precisely the ability to go against the crowd, the ability to defend your position alone, no matter how scary it may be, the ability to risk your position or even your life but make a worthy act.
The servant is not a black-and-white movie in which all the servants are good and the hosts are bad. In my opinion, it is very correct to show that the dignity of a person, character, civilization, in the end, do not depend on skin color and origin. “The servant” is a film about serious social problems, and an emotionally strong tape, and aesthetic pleasure, and wonderful acting work, and just a great movie.
10 out of 10
It's hard to judge people's actions if you're born half a century later than they are. And to judge, even more so. But, watching the film 'The Maid', I unwittingly flashed a sense of condemnation. And, although racial conflicts exist to this day and probably will exist, I was unpleasant to look at the pretentious & #39; white & #39; and bitterly - on the oppressed & #39; black & #39; And that's not because the movie is bad. The film is good because it makes you think about the actions of people in the past and present. And perhaps something to teach the current racists.
If we talk about the film as a work of art, then it deserves the attention of film fans. Pros of the film in a good game and, more to say, in a good selection of actors. Even the types of their faces expressed the essence of the heroes. The second plus is the colorfulness of the film. You can feel the atmosphere of those years with light blotches of novelty. Personally, I first saw ' black quarters' 60s.
The only downside in my opinion is the length of the film. I thought it was a little tight, it was getting boring and I wanted to rewind. Overall, the film deserves the attention of the audience.
The final credits are coming, and you have tears on your cheeks, and you understand how much the film struck, surprised, touched a living. A film about honor, dignity about human relations.
He's amazing! Great acting. I would like to mention Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis. So believable and convincing to play. You believe them, you sympathize with them. They're an example to women. It’s like going to Jackson and living with them. It hurts to watch these ladies raise other people's children, and they are treated like a rag on which you can wipe your feet!
After watching the movie, you think about the values of life. 18 people died in Jackson that day: 10 whites and 8 blacks. God doesn’t think about skin color when he unleashes a tornado..."
I would recommend the picture to everyone. That's a movie worth watching. I'm impressed.
I couldn't imagine my review of The Help would be red. I really enjoyed the book and am concerned about the subject of racial discrimination, despite all the ugly forms that the discussions take on the topic, and sometimes the absurdity of the decisions made in connection with it. Political correctness sometimes smacks of insanity, but I do not deny its necessity. However, in this film I encountered a very interesting phenomenon – it seems that the film tells ardently about the suffering of the black population of the United States, presenting whites in a very unsightly light. But actually, this is what I saw.
Roman Stockett is more honest and tough, although he also does not produce the effect of a bomb exploded, but he still makes several shots to kill. The stories told are simple and ugly. Everyone gets it, black and white. In the film, in fact, got only the heroine Bryce Dallas Howard, which by the end and turned into a comedy girl for whipping. Americans do not like to remember their shameful past (and who does?). The filmmakers seem to have hidden an entire era behind this heroine eating shit pie. Look, she's bad, she's suffering for that. Everyone else is white, but they’re not that good. What is the only scene with the mother of the main character, who in the book does not experience a moral rebirth, in the film she gives a heartfelt speech of support for her daughter and, together with everyone, kicks the negative heroine. And the set-table scene that helps Minnie gather her strength for change? That's how glorious it all turned out - the white lady learned to cook and gave her assistant what she deserved. I somehow more believe that the white Mrs. was just a good person, respectful of his servant, but certainly not serving her at the table, and culinary talents in her never opened.
The main character, performed by Viola Davis, looks good on the screen, if again, do not draw parallels with the book. Book Aybilene is calmer, it is less dramatic, but behind its mockingly calm tone, the real tragedy reads much brighter. This man does not expect any change and has long been accustomed to injustice. To the heroine, Davis is applicable, in my opinion, the quote 'Who hasn't seen much - cries a lot', she plays tragedy with every muscle of the face and all this together sounds easier and simpler, and I would like heavier and scarier.
The Kennedy assassination, which is not a highlight in the book, is also shown here, in my opinion, to emphasize: look, both whites and blacks cried for him. And this is on the one hand true, on the other hand, Abilene on the wall in her wretched house in the ghetto would rather hang Martin Luther King than Kennedy.
Trying to wrap the story in cotton candy and wrap it in a bright wrapper of ostentatious sympathy, a very important storyline is also removed from the film, in which blacks already get. Constantine's daughter wasn't a nice black girl who didn't get in the house on time. She was white and because of this, Constantine could not raise her in the ghetto without being haunted everywhere by oblique glances. This is a situation of reverse discrimination, which should also be mentioned in my opinion. How to make time for the storylines associated with those whites who really differed from most humane attitude to their servants.
But the film was not made to ponder what is still a pressing racial issue in the United States, nor to recall how it really was. This film is rather designed to level all sharp corners, bury the past under a feather... well, and give away Oscars, of course.
Some places also upset the casting. Skeeter is a skinny, very tall, long-nosed girl who has some grounds for upset because of her appearance. Emma Stone could have played Hilly, too. And with her play, she could not drive away thoughts of uncharacteristic.
Unexpectedly and greatly pleased with the episodic appearance of Nelsan Ellis. When he appeared on the screen, I immediately became quite scared.
It's a beautiful picture, you can't take it away.
I decided to watch all the films nominated for an Oscar in 2012. And finally came to "Salvage".
From the description and trailer, it is clear that this film is about the hard life of black people in America in the 60s: about oppression, discrimination, inequality, injustice and humiliation. It is also a film about the struggle of these women: the struggle against the foundations of society and their own fears. This is a film about the beginning of changes that were made by the most ordinary people. But in my opinion, first of all, this is a film about the good. The eternal story of the struggle between good and evil, embodied here in the images of Aibileen, Minnie and Skeeter, on the one hand, and housewives hiring servants, on the other. The servant repeats once again the immutable truth: the good always wins, the truth is necessary to fight and go against it. Change starts small. And with ordinary people, which can be any viewer. But they have to decide, find courage and go to the end.
This is a very good film about people with big hearts. It doesn’t matter what color your skin is.
I wish there were more such films: with an unbanal script, an excellent cast, and most importantly with an idea. So that after watching not just laugh or be surprised by special effects, but think and take something for yourself. Recently, such films are lacking.
The Maid, although no, is not just a film, it is the embodiment of life on screen itself, the hard lives of black people of the 1960s — teaches us a lot, to be brave, to be brave, to be independent, and most importantly helps to answer the question: Who are we really? You are kind. You're smart. You are important.
You're kind. You're smart. You're priceless.
Skeeter, a talented journalist, wanted to write a book about the difficulties of the lives of servants. On how they have to hear humiliation and laughter behind their backs every day, just because they are colored, just because they are servants. No one wanted to help her in her business, all the housekeepers were afraid of losing their place, afraid for their family. Only two maids agreed to share their stories with the girl – the wise Aybilene and the eccentric Minnie. Their revelations gave rise to a book that changed the minds of many people, a book that gave them themselves invaluable freedom and understanding.
Am I going to believe all the bad things that fools will say about me today?
The servant touched me to the depths of my soul, pouring goodness and hope through my veins. This film does not tell us about the color of our skin, but rather our inner state of mind and, as the nanny Skeeter Constantine Jefferson herself said: Ugly is what grows inside: meanness, cruelty. The servant is a film, although no, it is not just a film, it is the embodiment of life itself.
10 out of 10
Courage. Courage. Courage. These words are the basis of the characters of the heroines of the drama Tate Taylor, based on the novel of the same name by Catherine Stockett.
The drama takes us to America in the 60s of the XX century, in the years of brutal stratification of society, in the years of inequality of the people, in the years when "colored people" did not have the right to vote. "The Servant" - the story of maids who put their lives on cleaning, cooking, raising other people's children and not that did not receive words of gratitude, but simply did not deserve even human attitude. They were humiliated, compared to the ground only because they belonged to another race, regardless of how much these women did and how much they endured on their fragile shoulders. And it was the ability of the heroines of the drama to speak out, to overcome fear for the sake of being heard, that formed the basis of this magnificent drama.
The extraordinary play of the actors who best conveyed to us the feelings and experiences of the heroes, the struggle of characters, the clash of views delights and touches the soul, does not allow us to remain indifferent. Plus, the excellent work of operators, transferring to these difficult times for social minorities, opens our eyes to the situation in society.
Despite its complexity, the film is unusually interesting, not delayed, which has lately been a problem of many dramas, and pleasant to watch.
Of course, these two and a half hours will not be time wasted.
10 out of 10