I just got back from the city, emotionally exhausted from watching Tate Taylor’s new movie “The Help”. Yes, I must admit that I am easily touched, on all aspects of life. I used to always heckle my mum about it, laughing at her for being such a softie. That was until I turned 15-16. When we went to see the Lion King musical in London I sat next to her, and as “Circle of Life” started I had a giggle when I saw tears in her eyes. One minute later I noticed tears rolling down my cheeks, and I had absolutely no control over it.
Maybe it was the memory and experience of my childhood favourite movie that created this, or maybe the incredible effort and beauty of it. People dressed as different animals appeared everywhere; on the stage, amongst the orchestra, and amoungst the audience, all heading towards the stage.
Here’s the performance, not even close to the real experience (but it still made my eyes water.. jesus christ..).

Anyways. “The Help” is set during the civil war in America, and is about the young woman Eugenia coming back to her home town after finishing college. All her friends from highschool seem to have as their only goals to marry a wealthy man, get beautiful babies and that they themself appear beautiful at all time. Everyone have maids, which without exeption is black women. These maids raise the children of the wealthy (and racist) women, without much time to tend to their own. Eugenia, who had a very close relationship to her maid, starts planning a book containing stories about how these women live and how they are treated, told by themselves. Because of the law and the strong “sisterhood” that is against equal rights it all has to be kept secret; if the maids get caught they might be put in jail, or even killed.

It’s a strange feeling, being so touched by a story but still finding negative features about it as you’re subconsciously analysing it while it plays out infront of your eyes. Despite it being an original story, it still contains many of the cliché’s that is to be found in so many Hollywood movies. The characters doesn’t evolve much, the bad is bad and the good is good, and as with most HW movies, the good one wins. At one point I found it almost infuriating how the character of the mean upperclass woman got dragged out, while Emma Stone’s character (the goddy-good main character) got glorified on every level. Situations are dragged to the extreme in order to be funny, and some of the sadder moments in the movies gets dragged out to the extreme.

I was going to post the trailer, but it is so far from how I experienced the movie. It looks more like a cheap comedy than a quality film. Don’t watch it, it gives away to much.

I actually think I prefer knowing nothing about movies before I watching them. Of course I get a few disappointments; you logically enough don’t know what you’re in for if you don’t watch the trailer, or read about it. But the ones that turn out to be good movies.. Oh it is nothing better. It carries you away like nothing else, and insted of being able to predict all the upcoming events in the movie, you are left surprised.

Just realised that I’m contradicting myself here, I just gave away heaps of the movie and then I recommended NOT reading about it.

Whatever. It was a good movie, made me cry, not the best I’ve seem but still good, go see it.
Good night.

OH OH by the way! Here’s a still from the movie, check out the hair of those chicks! It must take hours to make that happen.. So glad I’m not pretty enough to marry a rich guy, and have to use my brain to get money in stead. Seriously.