The Help --- Movie

"The Help" is based on the well-known novel by Kathryn Stockett.  The film centers on Aibileen, Skeeter and Minny, three very different women in Mississippi in the year 1962. Skeeter is returning from college with a journalism degree, whose beloved childhood black maid Constantine has disappeared, and no one will tell her where she has gone. 

Aibileen is a maid who has raised 17 white children in her life. She has been a nanny to these children, if not a surrogate mother. Her outspoken friend Minny has never been able to keep quiet, and because of this, has not been able to hold onto a job very long, until she is hired on the sly by Celia, a white-trash rich girl who has some grave secrets of her own. 

Skeeter decides to write a tell-all book of interviews from the maids of Jackson, Mississippi, which, as you could imagine, was a serious taboo, and perhaps even illegal thing to take on in the time of Jim Crow and segregation. 

This lovely and sometimes extraordinary film is not concerned with big sermons about clivil rights or religion. The film is simply about behavior; how we should act, morally, towards other people, no matter who they might be.

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