Monday, November 14, 2016

Re: View , The Help


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Emma Stone ! The Help is one of the few movies of her i haven't watch yet and when being asked to do a review on this movie i was pretty excited. My lecturer always gave us this Racist mid 19th century based movie for us to watch. Maybe because when we go to the States we will feel kinda like them ; the minority, the immigrant. 

Anyway, Emma Stone in the movie was Skeeter, an aspiring novelist who wants to write what she wants to write. She got this crazy idea of making a taking life stories of black housemaids across Mississippi, thus the name of the topic. The life experiences she took was not all bad encounters between the maids and their owners. The boo was never meant to be biased or protective, it was just an insight of how it was like to neglect your own child and raise another person's child.

So she went to Aibileen and ask her for help, sharing her own experiences and also to rally other maids to cooperate. it did not turn out that well as in those days there were laws that have mad the coloured freedom of speech hindered and if broken they will be apprehended.

After a few incidents then the maid community feels like they should be heard and comply with Skeeter. The novel was a hit, and people came to realise that these maids are people to.

What I learnt from the movie is that everyone deserve to be heard out. We must give them channels to broadcast their opinions, feelings, shouting out their voice. Skeeter as she progressed in writing the novel, are able to get into the maids' shoes and feel their pain and joy of raising another person's child. Nowadays,through media we are able to speak out our voice without being oppressed. That's the essence of democracy. And that is what we ought to protect.

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