60's Southern Inspiration

The Help 2011

The Help, produced by Tate Taylor, is one of the most inspiring films based on 1960's Jackson, Mississippi. It will be a favorite to anyone, anywhere from its humor coming from the revenge of the housemaids and the secrets they knew and told about their employers, to its saddening and hurtful truths about how the blacks were treated in that time period. The main character "Skeeter" played by Emma Stone, was one of the biggest forms of inspiration for the majority of the film. Due to her rebellious acts from her interests in the "help" or housemaids, as well as her lack in interest in becoming the typical housewife of her time, she wrote the book "The Help" (also a tremendous shocker in the 60's because not many women at the time had nor strived for a career such as she did with becoming a writer for the Jackson Journal) which was about all the secrets of the housewives (also known as employers of the maids or "help") that only the "help" knew about. The stories in the book were about the "help's" side of each household's story that they worked for. It was the truth behind the deception of the prim and proper housewives and how they lived their everyday lives and treated everyone around them. It was also truly an act of courage coming from the maids or "help" because they were putting their jobs and possibly even life's at risk by being interviewed by Skeeter and by telling all the scandalous secrets of their employers. The Help is a phenomenal film because of the inspirational acts of justice coming from the main characters Skeeter Phelan as well as the maids Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson (played by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer).