"The Help" movie

MommaJ
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:12:37 +0000

I also found The Help to be unimpressive and could never understand all the hoopla. I felt the story was a giant cliche–was anyone really not aware that black maids in the deep South were treated poorly notwithstanding their connections to the white children they cared for? This is basic American history, for goodness sake, and the subject has been addressed, often more interestingly, in books, movies and TV shows (“The Long Walk Home” with Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek comes to mind). I also felt many of the characters were caricatures and the plot melodramatic–I didn’t believe in Skeeter for one second. My guess is the movie will only highlight the book’s weaknesses. Different strokes, etc. (I found Beloved to be virtually unreadable, so perhaps I’m just hard to please.)