Because everything has changed.

The Help (Movie)

This is probably the only that brought so many emotions in me. 

I knew this movie because of Emma Stone. Yes, I am a big fan of her just in case you were wondering. Basically, I knew about the book the same time I found out about this. Ever since last year, I’ve been meaning to read the book and watch the movie knowing that a lot of people really loved it. I was even shocked when one of my uncles told me that the author of the book had to go to so many publishers only to be rejected so many times until she finally got her book printed.

On IMDb, the movie’s rating is 8.0/10. Of course I was curious why. Now I know why.

This movie made me laugh many times; it made me cry twice. It made me fully understand the racism that occurred (maybe even still occurring) in the US and perhaps everywhere else during those times; somehow, however, I still don’t understand why those people loathed and despised the “colored” ones. The Help made me really like the main characters; for some very obvious reasons, it made me hate the antagonist. Yes, Bryce Dallas Howard or should I say Hilly, I was talking about you in the statement that followed the semi colon. But above all, The Help made me remember the natural and inevitable pain that people feel when someone that made a huge impact to their life leaves for all the unreasonable and wrong reasons.

I’ve learned so much from this movie, too. The place where we’re from, our so-called “color”, our experiences, the way people see and think about us… These are all just facades of what we really are. Deep inside, there’s always this vulnerable little person who actually cares about everything, though it may not show because of stereotyping and racism. There’s this tiny in our soul that wants to simply go out, but can’t because of ourselves and everyone else basically.

Overall, my rating is 9/10. It’s so beautiful, but I can’t rate it a perfect ten because I’m pretty sure that the book would be much more beautiful.