Why Is Everyone So Mad At “The Help?”

Ever since the opening date was announced for the movie, The Help, critics have been attacking the movie before it even hit theatres.

Ever since the opening date was announced for the movie, The Help, critics have been attacking the movie before it even hit theatres.

People have also been attacking the movie without even reading the book. And now with the release of the movie, more criticism is still being offered.  

After reading the book and seeing the movie, the book is definitely better than the movie. Then again, what book turned into a big screen motion picture is not better?

Not to discredit the movie because it was a great film. Somehow the book made it interesting to read the dialect between characters with their “southern twang.” Actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer performed phenomenally capturing the essence of the characters.  

The movie based on the 2009 controversial best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett tells the story of the civil rights movement through the eyes of two African American maids in early 1960s Mississippi. The characters begin their journey by sharing their secrets to a young encouraged writer looking for her break too. Only difference between her struggles of life and journey is the fact she is white.