The Help [DVD]

I just got so angry for the 'help' in this film. A real expose of the Deep South and America's shameful treatment even into what we would consider an enlightened era the 60's. Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis are truly the reason this film is so successful as they hold up a mirror to a disgraceful history with passion, humour and empathy. Great story of resilience and courage and certainly made me think. One word 'Pie'...keep that word in your mind when you watch this fabulous film.

The story of "The Help" might not be the most harrowing, most awful, most difficult story of racial prejudice in the US but is a story from a domestic setting, a story of women. So few stories of women are told. I loved the book, I loved the film but didn't like the changes. Not fine art but a story and an interesting story. A good film. Sometimes moving the focus of an important time in history like the civil rights movement to something more domestic and mundane makes it more real. The big moments take time to filter to real people. There are some fine and real performances in this from Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Emma Stone. I find it perplexing that Amazon chooses to list this as "The Help" Emma Stone (Actor, Primary Contributor), Bryce Dallas Howard (Actor, Primary Contributor), Tate Taylor (Director). What happened to the black actresses? The thing I found sad about the adaptation is Constantine's story was rushed. Her daughter was very different in the book and had more of a significant part in humiliating Skeeter's mother which although was worse than portrayed (for the time) made Skeeter's mother much less sympathetic as a character. The other sad thing is that I'm really not sure how I feel about the story. I don't know how I feel about the author and her inspiration. Bad things have been claimed which you hope not to be true because you want the story to be pure and full of hope but nothing in reality is like that. A good film. A film with a message and perhaps it is the latter which makes it difficult but a good film nonetheless.

Really enjoyed this film

As there are 700 reviews on here already I don’t intend to over-elaborate about the plot. I saw the film when it came out in 2011 and I was sufficiently impressed to want to view it again on DVD. I always enjoy films about the ‘Deep South’ as I love its countryside, antebellum architecture and the whole history of that period - even if some of it is very distasteful, but then, so are large parts of our ‘ British Empire,’ but it is history nonetheless. The filming around Mississippi is just lovely, aided of course by the fact that the director, Tate Taylor, (also Get on Up / James Brown fame) comes from that particular state. All the filming was done there, at Jackson, Clarksdale & Greenwood. You can’t get more authentic than that! I really enjoyed this film, though on the second viewing, I did find it a little overly sentimental, which didn’t hit me the first time around – can’t really explain that one! The film is not trying to be another ‘12 Years a Slave’ or ‘Django,’ or even a ‘Roots and so shouldn’t be judged as such.’ I found the all-round acting first class, though quite how Brice Dallas Howard - the despicable Hilly Holbrook, didn’t get an AA nom’ for ‘best supporting actress’ as well, is quite beyond me. The ‘cast’ did win ‘Best Ensemble’ from several award groups which does make me feel somewhat better. This is an excellent watch IMHO - the critics and public thought so too. It turned in a profit of nearly 200 million $ and was nominated for over 100 awards, winning 40.

Good film some may find it a difficult watch

Just love the book. So funny.

came on time well packaged no issues

Fast delivery, item as described

人権問題を扱ったヒューマンドラマですが悲壮感や説教臭さがないのに心に響きます。 個人的にはカラーパープルに並ぶ傑作だと思います。 作品の構成や見せ方がよく練られており非の打ちどころがないので約140分飽きずに見れました。 この1本のおかげでいい正月休みになりました。

Few films have the power to make me cry. There are the rare ones out there that have made me misty, sometimes even managing to encourage a tear or two to roll down my cheek. There are also few films adapted from books I've read of which I've not been disappointed by the result, however small or great. A film's impact, however, becomes abundantly clear when the audience remains in their seats in poignant silence nearly ten minutes after the end credits have started rolling, so moved by what they've seen that they take that much time to reflect and/or regain their composure. This is the point at which film transcends it medium and becomes art. Laughter, tears, and catharsis - this was my experience seeing "The Help". Adapted from author Kathryn Stockett's mega best seller of the same name, "The Help" tells the story of the impenetrable and time-tested bonds between women and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, setting it against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement in the sweltering summer temperatures and racially-charged atmosphere of Jackson, Mississippi. Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Stone) is the film's central character, an Ole Miss graduate who instead of aspiring to marriage and children like all her friends before her dreams of making a name for herself as a journalist and author. Brought up in an era where African-American housemaids and field workers were commonplace (she was raised by a black housekeeper herself), Skeeter sets herself apart from the rest of Jackson's residents with her staunchly liberal views. Confounded and opposed to the treatment that friends and family bear upon the help, she is even more horrified when her best friend Hilly Holbrook (Howard) issues a "Household Sanitation Initiative", a proposal which strongly recommends that a separate bathroom for blacks be a requirement in every white home. Fed up with the unrelenting bias of nearly everyone around her, Skeeter embarks on a radical and risky project - to document the stories of black housemaids and share their viewpoints in the effort to open people's minds. Starting first with veteran housemaid Aibileen (Davis) and growing to more than 30 different women over time, Skeeter's book attempts to rip the blindfold of ignorance from everyone's eyes and spur a collapse in Jackson's longstanding racial divide. Written and directed for the screen by Tate Taylor, "The Help" serves as his directorial debut and considering the actors with whom he worked he had an easy time about it. The cast is superior - Emma Stone is golden as Skeeter, a less than stellar beauty who shines nonetheless with ambition and integrity, a woman who stubbornly pursues the truth while battling quietly with uncertainty. Octavia Spencer is uproarious as the feisty Minnie; Bryce Dallas Howard manages to incur all the intended hatred for the character of Hilly, her high nose and icy stare masterful; Jessica Chastain is delightful as the ditzy and buxom Celia Foote, her squeaky giggles, flirtatious prancing, and high, timid speech seeming to spring directly from Stockett's pages. It should serve as no surprise that Academy Award nominee Viola Davis gives the film's most arresting performance, able to detain a viewer's heart with one raw and penetrating look, one succinctly delivered line. The film's final scene is the most heartrending, Aibileen bidding both fond and hard-edged farewells alike as she walks down a long suburban road, one that serves as a symbol to the long road that many African-Americans have walked in their pursuit for equality. Bottom line: Though a few things have been changed for dramatic effect (a commonality for adaptations), "The Help" is a movie of which readers of Stockett's novel should be proud. Despite its obvious invitation to controversy, the film packs an emotional punch with its historical backdrop, stirring story and bravado performances. To all the women in the audience: be it a tissue or a shirt sleeve, you will find yourself at a loss for words and wiping away tears when all is said and done.

Un très beau film à voir

Um filme excelente. Muito tocante. Informativo tb, pois eu não sabia a condição de racismo nos EUA, mesmo já nos anos 1960s. Impressionante.

Me encantó 💕 poder tener esta bella película. La calidad es genial y viene con una copia extra . Super recomendable su entrega bien cuidada. 👍