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Film Review: The Help
Actress Viola Davis, star of the film The Help, at the 23rd
annual Producers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on January 21.
Photo: Reuters
"There is no state with a record which approaches that of Mississippi in inhumanity, murder, brutality and racial hatred," Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, famously said in the summer of 1963, shortly before the famous March on Washington that would come to be a defining moment for the American civil rights movement.
At this time, feelings of white supremacy were not limited to the Ku Klux Klan, nor were they merely part of the social fabric; they were the law of the land. The Civil War had broken out a century earlier because whites in the South wanted to keep their black slaves despite the push for abolition coming from Lincoln in the White House.
In Jackson, Mississippi, 1963 is a tumultuous year in which even the assassination of the president seems to take place in the background as black Americans fight for their right to be no longer treated as second-class citizens. Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young journalist who, in the absence of her mother, a social butterfly, was raised by the house maid. But after Skeeter's parents fire the maid for no apparent reason, this girl with a thirst for the truth decides to peek behind the uniform and interviews a number of maids, covertly, to expose their lives in a book she intends to write, fittingly called The Help.
Read the full story in The Prague Post. The Help goes on circuit in Bulgaria on February 3.
At this time, feelings of white supremacy were not limited to the Ku Klux Klan, nor were they merely part of the social fabric; they were the law of the land. The Civil War had broken out a century earlier because whites in the South wanted to keep their black slaves despite the push for abolition coming from Lincoln in the White House.
In Jackson, Mississippi, 1963 is a tumultuous year in which even the assassination of the president seems to take place in the background as black Americans fight for their right to be no longer treated as second-class citizens. Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young journalist who, in the absence of her mother, a social butterfly, was raised by the house maid. But after Skeeter's parents fire the maid for no apparent reason, this girl with a thirst for the truth decides to peek behind the uniform and interviews a number of maids, covertly, to expose their lives in a book she intends to write, fittingly called The Help.
Read the full story in The Prague Post. The Help goes on circuit in Bulgaria on February 3.
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