The Help (2011)

Hey there,
It's been a long time but I wanted to write about this one, The Help with Emma Stone. Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.

Last month my friends gave me the book "The Help" for my birthday, I've been wanting to ready it for a while since the movie came out but I didn't had the book.
I always like to read the books first, it's better and I enjoy it very much. I always take a book with me everywhere I go.

So I finished if today at the beach and for the past 2 and a half hours I've been watching the movie. It's not the same of course, some parts are edited and others are just the same. I loved it!

It's a great book and a great movie, the theme is not easy but it's something that happened and needed to be told. It shows another perspective on the life of maids and not only maids but of every house worker.
The laws, the fear they live in, the separation, the racism, these are current problems, current situations. It happened back then but it still happens now. It might be a little different but the main problem is still there.

I'm not speaking for experience but from what I read and hear. I hate seeing someone treat another person bad for a little thing, we are ALL human, we all make mistakes or have bad days. What not all of us do is take it out on the help, on the "inferior" ones, the ones we pay and because of that we think we own.

I'm really glad this book came out, I'm even more glad the movie did to because it was because of the movie that I knew this book existed and I got to read it. I got to see what's like to live these women's lives, the hardships they go through, the love they give for the children they raise. It was a learning experience and I hope everyone reads it and watches the movie too.
It gives you a face to all those characters you read about.

5 stars from me for both.

Read the book and see the film please.