Posted on 08/22/2011 6:05:46 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
This movie, "The Help" has been written, filmed and distributed with the sole purpose of inciting violence at a politically fragil time in this country. Yes, some of the events in the movie occurred, but it is nowhere representative of society as a whole.
As a matter of fact, the historical background of a lot of leading Democrats would tie directly to this film, but getting the general public to notice that at this time would be futile. Some unbelievably emotional scenes exist in this movie to denigrate white society to the fullest.
I can not believe the timing of the release of this film. The primary "evil" white woman character could very easily be a young Nancy Pelosi. Whoever has decided to release such a film at this time into a politically-charged environment bears a LOT of responsibility for the effects.
The thing about art is that once it’s released, it belongs to the people who see, hear, read it.
You may have meant ONE thing when you created it ... but you don’t know how it will be received.
As I said here, I can’t comment ... I just know one liberal who HATED it because it implied that an actual WHITE PERSON helped the help.
Oh... if only we could all rewrite history so all the oppressed overcame oppression without help from anyone some squish decided was unworthy of being appreciated.
Wait ... the only person who ever did THAT was Jesus.
Excellent post.Truth is racism in the US is practiced more by blacks than whites. the pendulum swung about ten years ago and we have been getting the short end ever since. movies like this try and ignore all this since it does little to help the liberal causes.
I have not yet seen the flick, but read the book about a year ago after my wife and several neighbors raved about it. From 1957 thru 1961 I had several fairly good buds in the Army from the deep south. While they were O.K. friends, some of the opinions and feelings THEY voiced about blacks from time to time made what is in the book, “The Help” seem like Little Bo Peep! In fact, as recent as 2005 some of the statements made by a yellow dog Democrat businessman, from Delaware of all places, put ALL blacks lower than whale $h!t in HIS book.
Watch for more e.coli breakouts. My wife said the “Help” were so kind as to put poop in a pie or something like that.
Having grown up in the South with “help”, I will tell you that it is true to life. That’s the way it was.
Best book I’ve read in a long time, read it last year. Saw the movie last weekend, loved it too. Great rendition of the book, which was gratifying - Hollywood ruins most books to movies. Don’t agree with you - many people were like that in pre-civil rights south, and conservatives worked hard, lost their lives even, trying to undo the very things depicted in the story. Not a stretch at all. It’s good to remember the evils of the past, to avoid repeating them.
I just read the book, and thought I was the only one in the world that had! Seriously!
It’s wonderfully written, and anyone who loves hearing people speak about their place in life, and the people they work for will love it.
Incite to violence is a real stretch. Violence is the black on black crime actually taking place in the inner-city these days.
Have you actually read the book? The time setting for the book was the early 60’s. It was made into a movie because it was such a well written book with well developed characters.
It’s typical southern lit style. There’s no sinister motives here other than to cash in on the $$$$$$$$$ the book made.
hands, I cannot agree with your remarks. I have a couple of lib friends. Good solid people, ex military, I’d bleed for them. We don’t agree on anything political, but I’ve known them for decades and wouldn’t trade their friendship over being policitally opposed.
Yeah, they are crazy about most stuff, but they are my friends and I will keep them. They actually add comedic relief to most of our gatherings since they are always in the minority in any discussion.
People sadly are creating hysteria and may be the victim of self fulfilling prophecy if they are not careful. Are people concerned about violence sure. But mass hysteria is just that hysteria. It creates it's own death if people don't use precaution with too much imagination. Be prepared but also be sensible and cautious of your own fear creating reality. Geez.
If it possibly can, the Hollywood leftist horde that populates the Academy NEVER fails to elect a "social justice" movie to take top honors.
Leni
I read he book and thoroughly enjoyed the characters. The black women were portrayed as very strong personalities and ended up (I won’t spoil it) successful. The white character in the book works hard and learns a lot. It’s a coming together story. i read a reveiw by an African American woman and she loved it for th same reason I did- Three strong characters who grow through their experiences.
I know 2 people who have read the book and saw the movie and they enjoyed both, thought the movie well represented the book. Why should all this great book/great movie cause a race riot? I don’t thik so.
In the old days this was reality. Liberals can’t deal with reality. It is what it is—a slice of one world in one region of the country. So many stories. So many peoples. So many places. This just one story. Liberals can’t seem to grasp that some things are complicated and has several layers.
The movie was good, but glad I read the book first to catch everything that was happening in the movie.
This movie did not stir any negative in me, and I thought it was very funny.
The first thing you catch, the whites would not allow the black maids to use the household toilets, so they built them one in the garages. You see, they thought that blacks left their diseases on the toilets.
That's right. But these same maids were hired as COOKS. ROFL. That is the stupidity of that whole era.
Now that is just a tweak of the story, you have to read the book or see the movie to know the rest. ROFL.
Saw it this weekend. Two major impressions:
Black families were a lot stronger when I was growing up.
Milks one joke way too much.
The Civil Rights struggle in MA was a peripheral issue. My guess is that if you moved the story to Boston MA in the early part of the 20th century, and made the 'Help' young Irish girls, it wouldn't be that different.
She was rejected so often she just made a game to resent it back out as a game. Eventually someone bit. Her story is a story of many first time authors. If there was a higher plan, she wouldn't have had to work for years just to find and agent for the book.
Yes I have. The script is beautifully written (so the book must be better) and it is expertly filmed and doesn't drag at any moment. I believe the timing on this movie being released is not good due to the political instability we have right now. I stand on that view. Should it have been released at some other time when we weren't on the edge politically/economically, it would have been much better.
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