The Help

73% of critics
67% popularity increase
7.8 stars on imdb

I saw the movie "The Help" with my father yesterday, and thought I'd do a review.
Set in 1963, in Jackson Mississippi, a town consumed by segregation and where racism is a normality. While the movie is not a quite accurate depiction of the level of racism in that time period, (it was much worse than the movie portrays) the amount shown is enough to break your heart.
Emma Stone played Skeeter Phelan, an ardent and candid protagonist who doesn't have a problem with speaking her mind, and aspires to be a journalist or novelist, or both.  Caught in a world of upper class young baby boomers, Skeeter is single, and still living with her mother, who is plagued with cancer. After receiving a job at a Jackson newspaper, writing the cleaning column, Skeeter asks a friend if she can interview her maid, Abilene about cleaning tips for her column. Viola Davis, (Abilene), gave an almost Oscar winning performance, you see the obvious elephant in the room when Skeeter begins to interview the maid, and Skeeters peers take notice, belwildered at the respect Skeeter has for the lower blacks who weren't even allowed to use white toilets. Skeeter's cleaning column research ensues, while she begins interviewing other black help as well, collecting stories from their point of view, eventually published in a book, that causes a scandal in Jackson, and puts Skeeter, and all the maids involved in the book, in danger.

Period pieces are always so difficult to recreate, but I found the time period believable, and the all-star cast truly delivered with real, poignant characters.

Tackling racism, parenting, down south tradition, gossip, prejudice, discrimination, lies, peer pressure, cancer, and grief,  While creating laughs and aww moments through unlikely friendship,  funny revenge, and a ditsy blonde.
I laughed, cryed and laughed and fumed and cryed and enjoyed every minute of the film.
I recommend recommend recommend this movie!!!

"You are all sons of God through faith in Jesus. There is neither Jew, or Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:26-28

God doesn't see skin color, he sees souls.