But I also think they're full of good, evocative details - closely observed depictions of the coping mechanisms of both servants and employers. I concede the novel and movie are heavy-handed. My view of this controversy is easily stated: I don't know I don't know I don't know. "I need to see you square on at all times." "I'm going to do it but I need to make sure you understand this ain't no game," says Minny. Then Hilly dumps her aging mother's maid, Minny, played by Octavia Spencer, for being what's often called "sassy." Although Medgar Evers has just been murdered and the KKK is on the prowl, Minny finally agrees to talk to Skeeter, too. The imperious Hilly Holbrook, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, announces it's unhygienic to let black people use the house toilets and directs her friends to build outhouses. Getting those other maids turns out to be a problem, until the insults become even harder to bear. "I was hoping to get four or five to show what it's really like in Jackson," says Skeeter. "The other maids would have to keep it a secret too." "Well, I was thinking we wouldn't have to tell her," says Skeeter. "You know what she would do to me if she knew I was telling stories on her?" asks Aibileen. I'd like to do a book of interviews about working for white families and we could show what it's like to work for Elizabeth."
"I want to interview you about what it's like to work as a maid. "There's something else I want to write about and I would need your help," says Skeeter. But as racial tensions intensify and her snooty friends reveal their true segregationist selves, Skeeter prevails on Aibileen to give her more than household cleaning tips. After Skeeter talks her way into a newspaper job writing a column on housekeeping - a subject about which she knows nothing - she reaches out for advice to her friend Elizabeth's maid, Aibileen, played by Viola Davis. Few fictional films wear their political messages as proudly or loudly as The Help, which centers on black female domestic servants in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s and a 23-year-old white woman who induces them to tell their stories for a book to be called, appropriately enough, The Help.Įmma Stone plays the perky white woman, Eugenia Phelan, nicknamed Skeeter, who returns from college to find her wealthy family's maid - who essentially raised her - gone under mysterious circumstances and her friends married with kids and black maids of their own.
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