Directed by: Tate Taylor
Run Time: 146 Min
Run Time: 146 Min
Racism is bad and countless film has shown us about that, from Color Purple to Mississippi Burning. But this one takes another less glitzy approach, instead portraying the big picture, it goes to behind the yard of a middle class Mississippi in the 60s where segregation is the 'acceptable' norm.
By focusing on African-American maids were treated by their caucasian employer, this one manage to extract good acting from the cast.
Focusing on Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a recent college graduate who comes home and finds that her own society is treating the maids in a cruel way, thus fuel her spirit to write the stories of the maids from maids's perspective.
The maids are Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer), who has to endure insult even threats of being fired. Aibileen takes care of the kids (who in the future had a chance to be just like their racist bitch mothers) and Minny has to face her ueber bitch employer; Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), a social climber who has tongue as sharp as razor. As the antithesis for Hilly there is Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain), who is nice and didn't treat Minny as if she is a sub-human.
This is a human story where ignorance and racism will make you puke and the problems of the maids will make you sympathize with them. Emma Stone shine here, but it is Chastain who add the comical effect for this 'serious but safe' movie. I do hope the film could be more 'daring' in exploring racism as a theme, perhaps as daring as American History X but this one is decent and worth watching.
By focusing on African-American maids were treated by their caucasian employer, this one manage to extract good acting from the cast.
Focusing on Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a recent college graduate who comes home and finds that her own society is treating the maids in a cruel way, thus fuel her spirit to write the stories of the maids from maids's perspective.
The maids are Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer), who has to endure insult even threats of being fired. Aibileen takes care of the kids (who in the future had a chance to be just like their racist bitch mothers) and Minny has to face her ueber bitch employer; Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), a social climber who has tongue as sharp as razor. As the antithesis for Hilly there is Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain), who is nice and didn't treat Minny as if she is a sub-human.
This is a human story where ignorance and racism will make you puke and the problems of the maids will make you sympathize with them. Emma Stone shine here, but it is Chastain who add the comical effect for this 'serious but safe' movie. I do hope the film could be more 'daring' in exploring racism as a theme, perhaps as daring as American History X but this one is decent and worth watching.
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