The Help

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

This review from AV Club was kind of my big fear for the movie - well, other than overexposure of Emma Stone ... it seems like a preponderance of "Civil Rights" movies follow the "white [girl] acts as conduit as black folks rise up against cardboard cut-outs of injustice!" trope.

It never ends.

Originally Posted by KSig RC

I guess I shouldn't expect subtlety from Hollywood, but would the overall story really change if the "Anonymous" author was black?

Yes. There either wouldn't have been a book published in the first place or the author would've been mysteriously killed by angry white folks.

Generally speaking, white folks like stories of white folk saviors more than white folks like stories of the Joe Louis Clarks and Jaime Escalantes.

See, for the first ever, I was trying to avoid the obvious and just enjoy the movie. I admit that reading GCers say that they have become more interested in reading about the era made me say "hmmmm...to have the privilege to now be interested in an era that is such a huge part of history and present-day dynamics."