@Dickum N Lickum the V: Emperor Of RUclips. I agree. But how are "white housholds" must suddenly integrate people, so different from them on so many levels? Why should they? I just explain why this reluctance exists towards other races.
Jessica Smithey I agree with you, but despite that, there are worse films when it comes to minimizing the horrors of our past. I've seen Hairspray and hated it. I understand that it was meant for children also, but it reduced the suffering of coloured people at the time to, "I just think it's stupid that we can't dance together on tv."
Abileen actually talks about the violence they get as black (Abi son was killed by racist ) hayley also said to skeeter that they were Real racist in this town i think she meant kkk
That One plus I don’t see what’s wrong with her not being like other girls in that time period they were all awful women if anything you should be happy that she wasn’t like them.
This is when I knew Bryce Dallas Howard didn't get her roles through nepotism. She was sooo good. She truly convinced me!! I hated her in this movie. What a great actress!!!
I never understood "They carry different diseases than us." Ok...but you're ok with us cooking your food, cleaning your house and raising your children. Our 'diseases' didn't bother you then.
@@tychoderkommentator2989 not necessarily true, in the case of fresh off the boat migrants in some cases you can be regionally susceptible to diseases the locals have an environmentally developed immunity to. Either way their thinking is illogical because these people have lived with them for generations
Exactly. And in the past (though I'd hesitate to guess until when) white people used black nursemaids. So.... No disease in breast milk. I would have liked to see Hilly reminded of that fact. It probably would've been another shit pie episode.
Ironically in the book the only nice thing said about Hilly is that she's a loving and attentive mother to her kids (she has a boy and a girl in the book) and its Aibileen who makes that observation about Hilly because she compares how Hilly and Elizabeth interact with their kids.
You know, Hilly managed to get everyone to hate to the point where when she ACTUALLY ate shit, we loved it.....take a second to think about how great her acting must be to make everyone hate the character. THAT takes skill.
The way she says, "Don't you want them to take their business outside?" is so unbelievably dehumanizing. That's the way you talk about a housepet, not a person. Just disgusting and heartbreaking.
I take my dog outside to do its business. I couldn't imagine treating another human being like that. The hypocrisy to be fine with them cooking your food and raising your children but then act like they are so dirty they belong outside like dogs. Tragic
The pure disdain I had for Hilly boiled my blood to the point where I've only been able to watch this movie once. A true testament of what a phenomenal actress Bryce Dallas Howard is.
I love Skeeter's response. Basically saying- hey Hilly, you're the one with a problem sharing, maybe you should be the one who gets the worse situation.
I often use to wonder growing up why I didn't really hear the elders of the family talk much about the past. Movies like this reminds me who the hell wants to revisit being treated horribly. No wonder they don't talk about back in the day unless you ask them.
And now you know why, white people get so mad when it IS brought up. They don't want to revisit when their Elders treated Blacks (and other minorities) so horribly! It's also why they always jump WAY back to Slavery.....they don't want to remind us of the BS their White Mothers and Fathers....put Black Mothers, Fathers and children through. They want you to think, it happened soooo long ago, it doesn't matter NOW...... My Father (a Veteran) was 21 when the Civil Rights Act passed......Forced to live Separate but Equal...... True there is no one alive that was ever a slave or remembers slavery but there are PLENTY of Whites and Blacks that are alive and remember what it was like in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!
Skeeters the only one who's polite enough to thank Abilene for pouring her drink. She's the only person in the room who respects her enough to acknowledge her outside of being demeaning from her.
My mother was from Corinth Mississippi. She grew up with a black "nurse maid" named Carlee. In 1968, I was 5 years old. My parents would take us to visit from Atlanta to my relatives in Corinth. I loved to see Carlee. She would hug and squeeze me harder than my mother. She was a portly woman and whenever she hugged me I remember I just sank in the cleft of her bosom. Sounds strange to remember such details I know. This movie takes me back to that time. I am glad things changed but I loved her so much.
"I'll do whatever it takes to protect my children" gave blacks the stereotype that they're lazy when they literally took care of their kids and cooked and cleaned.
Few things: 1. We see how Skeeter has grown from someone trying to steer the conversation (unsuccessfully) out of respect for Aibleen to later someone who tells Elizabeth off for mistreating her daughter. 2. That dress worn by their friend (Anna "Aca-cuse Me?" Camp) looks like the dress Peggy Olson wore to Easter Sunday. 3. Skeeter is the only woman not wearing pink at that table. 4. Hilly's too girly girl for her age look is made less ridiculous in this film adaptation.
In the book Skeeter does reflect on herself and her behaviour and squirms at the things she said I think its in one of Aibileen's stories where Skeeter says African-Americans pray too much and she's horrified by it. Also at first she's a little annoyed at Aibileen writing her stories because she thinks it'll take up more time with her rewriting them but she agrees and is surprised to learn Aibileen writes two hours or more a night which is more than she herself writes and she only needs to edit and correct the odd spelling mistake because Aibileen is actually a good writer. Very slowly Aibileen and Skeeter build trust and become friendly in fact Skeeter starts to prefer Aibileen over her friends because she knows how they really behave behind closed doors. It really shocks Skeeter how bad some of the maids experiences are. Skeeter really grows up and mature's throughout the book.
Skeeter: Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside Hilly. - Slay it Skeeter! Slay it! Hilly: You need not joke about the colored situation. - Oh she's not. She's just saying that if you are for treating people like an animal that has to go outside to use the bathroom you deserve no better.
I really feel so sad for the black people back than. How much they went through, the pain and struggled, I can’t imagine. I’m so glad that in today’s age, everyone are treated equally. Bless you and everyone, take care and always respect one another!
Gloria Kalunga I think society are more accepting and open-minded. Look at Meghan Markle, an American accepting into the British Royal, Barrack Obama was elected as US president, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson loved and admired by all around the world, I could name many more. MLK, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X etc fights for justice and equality, and that do help to make a difference.
I love how they're thinking its too dangerous to share bathrooms with black folks but theyre fine with black people cooking their food. 😂 guess that would require them to actually do work though so theyre not gonna try changing that
Just posted under another comment, it was their way to control. A realization I came to being an adult abused child. Those in power always want to control their victims. If they realize or admit it or not.
I love the fact that when Skitter tells Abiline that the radio reminded her of Constantine, Abiline looks at her with an annoyed look and tell her "I know her, we were in church circle" meaning "yes I know her, and I know what you did to her" but when Skitter asks her if she's seen her lately, her face completely changes because she realises Skitter has no idea of what happened to her :(
In the book its revealed that Skeeter did it because she was disgusted reading Hily's Home Help Sanitation Initiative which she out off printing in the news letter after Hilly demands Skeeter put it in she pays her maid Pascagoula's brothers to put the toilets in Hilly's front garden during the night ready for when Hilly returned the following day from a trip. It makes the front page news of the Jackson Journal but unfortunately it backfires on Skeeter because Hilly uses those toilets towards installing separate toilets for other people'd maids.
Elizabeth and Jolene (the other two friends playing bridge) represent most Americans. They recognize that something is bad, but refuse to do anything because it will "disrupt the natural order", and it's convenient and comfortable for them for things to stay just the way they are. It's only when we step out of the norm that true, positive change happens.
In a later scene she writes a newsletter that reads drop old toilets on hilly holbrook's front lawn next thing we see a lot of toliet's on hilly's frount lawn.
@@ashleysmith8402 the movie doesn't include it but in the book Skeeter pays her maid Pascagoula's brothers $25 each to put those toilets on Hilly's front garden during the night when she was away for the weekend
Though this movie is criticized because of its white savior trope I still like it. Besides, Skeeter wants to do what is right. She doesn't treat the maids as maids, she treats them as equals.
As a black person myself (as you can obviously tell fro my cringe profile pic) I don’t take this kind of stuff seriously. People can change overtime, and people who are like this are from a different generation, and I don’t blame them. They were taught this was the right way of thinking. They didn’t know anything else. Besides, most of the stereotypes are pretty ridiculous, anyway, and I like to laugh at myself.
so what if they was taught this way of thinking .. even an idiot could figure out treating people like this is wrong they knew what they was doing and did it with pure malicious intent
You are rational. In my classroom where I was the only chinese kid in that class, we were studying Australian history, part of it was learning about how the government was teying to enforce "white Australia" with slogans like "Two Wongs don't make a white". I laughed out loud. No one did. Funny thing, I was bullied a lot back then and my bullies who'd put me down out loud were also mysteriously silent about this. It's just a slogan of the past and it's a cute English pun. I enjoyed it. I pesonally don't believe they were 100% naive in the past, but I do agree with your thinking and sentiments about this movie.
This is our RECENT past, not distant. My grandma turns 101 next month, constantly tells us to be on the lookout for rising fascism. That not long ago she was exiled for inviting her black loved ones to her home.
Im white and when I was a caregiver, many treated me that way. Right down to using a seperate bathroom. Could NOT use the driveway. Was asked to do jobs that were forbidden by contract...such as washing floors on my hands and knees.
“They carry different diseases...” This part of the movie mentions about Blacks carrying diseases and spreading them to White people. It's just such a shame that even until now there are people who think non-White people carry and spread diseases that White people don't. A prejudicial mentality that continued from the 19th century and in this movie's case even up to the 1960's. It just reminds me that these days there are people blame all the Chinese for spreading the virus, and that has especially led to anti-Asian violence in America, even attacking people who aren't infected. People need to realise diseases and in fact viruses are non-discriminatory: they've affected people from all backgrounds.
It mostly happens in arab nations now, like Saudi Arabia and Dubai...its also pretty much slavery often and they take peoples passports away sometimes. This is not a white/black issue....its a global human issue.
Alice Graham and as a black woman the black community is still feeling disgusted because we’re fighting racism right now after all the years it’s a shame smh.
_The book & this movie were so sad. How can living like this not drive someone crazy. I’m so glad I wasn’t born in that era. Viola Davis character was so strong 💪 & had a good heart ❤️ despite it all. It’s crazy how those white women were raised & taken care of by black women. Only to grow up and hate them and do them wrong._
how can you even ask someone something without saying please even if it’s their job? My biggest pet peeve is impoliteness like how can you as a human feel like you are above other humans who are the same as you?
I work for a very important hotel chain in Cancún. I am a concierge. One day a lady (white) asked me for the shows schedule I told her where to pick a sheet with the information she put a face like 🙄 I told her I will get one for her (as part of the service we offer at the property) when I went back to her With the sheet she told me “ did you where to america for the sheet or what?” And started laughing at me, It really pissed me off and I take the sheet of her hand and I told her to get it by herself... And I told her “By the way study geography you still in America”. Hahhahahaa I wish I had taken a picture of her face and make a meme. 🤣
I love this movie. One of my absolute favorites. However, the "white savior" narrative that continues to be pushed out in these type of movies, really needs to start taking a back seat in the story lines. Don't get me wrong, i understand why many white people feel the need to add that into the movies. Black people suffered so much at our hands & even tho generations have passed, any one with a heart cannot help but feel the sting of guilt & regret. Feel the need to show redemption. There's better ways we can do that. I do believe that in the beginning, the white people stepping in for the black people was meant to be a way of showing how sorry we are. However, it's now become distorted, seen as the white people saved the bkack. I won't deny that white people played a role in the Underground Rail Road. That white & black people faught together in the Civil war... but that doesn't make us white saviors . More movies need to be made about black people like Harriet Tubman, Malcom X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, & so many more... who risked their lives - some even gave their lives - in pursuit of happiness & equality for us all. Harriet Tubman & MLK... there should be way more recognition about the remarkable things they did. Replace some of the white men on US money & put the faces of some of the brave black men & women who not only survived the darkest times this nation has seen, but rose above it all & made the kind of difference most people dream of making. It baffles me that this has yet to take place. Id love to see a director make a big budget film like this one, & let the black people be the heros completely, while the racist white people are left to deal with the vile, evil, & wickedness they inflicted on their fellow human beings. The ending doesn't need to be happy for both sides every time.
@Peachesxo Many continually point fingers at the South for perceived "racism" because it allows them to ignore the real racism around them. Met a black Arab from Libya, who with his wife, came to the U.S. as a refugee. Settled in Los Angeles County; no neighbors would speak to him, and he was constantly stopped by the Police and Sheriff Dept; resettled to town just South of Chicago, and exact same thing happened continuously. Moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, (Northeast of Knoxville) with his now pregnant wife. Surprised when everyone was smiling saying "Hello and Good Morning" and were friendly toward him and wife. Baby arrived and all the neighbors were leaving baby gifts outside their door and bringing food over. He told me he was NEVER leaving Tennessee. My waitress at a truck stop near Greenville, SC was a very sweet young black lady. I could tell by her accent she was not from SC. She told me she grew up in Brooklyn, NY and a few years earlier had visited a friend in SC, and came ready to tackle the "Redneck Southern Racists". Instead, she fell in love with SC and moved there permanently "because everyone was so much nicer than in Brooklyn". This is exactly why people like to point at the South as "racist".
63DW89A sure sure. If the north didn’t win moron there still would of been slavery. Lol how stupid are you. No matter where you go you can find a racist. But if the north didn’t stand up against slavery then the south would of kept slaves. You sound absolutely ridiculous
Elizabeth should’ve been friends with Celia because Celia wanted to be friends with Elizabeth but Elizabeth was friends with Hilly aka Queen B of The Help and Hilly was stopping Elizabeth from being friends with Celia because she had a poor background and married Johnny. Skeeter told Hilly that might be you, so I’m guessing that Skeeter was fine with Celia joining their social circle but Hilly was 100% no with Celia joining. No wonder Skeeter realised how mean Hilly was to Celia and Aibileen and Minnie and a lot of people so she ditched Hilly, which is what Hilly deserved. In fact, Hilly deserves no friends and she deserves to be hated by the whole town
I love the 50s but my God. How frigging awful. 😢 It's the one part of the 50s that I am speechless about. 💔 Regardless of what color our skin is we all bleed the same shade of red.
I’m white and every time i see scenes like this (knowing the treatment of poc were a lot worse than this) where poc are treated like dirt gets me so infuriated. It breaks my heart to know at some point we didn’t accept them. And that some people don’t now. It’s something I’m ashamed of even though I’m not racist. I just want to apologize to everyone victimized.
@@Starmadien2019 It's not always being against blacks (not each other, because blacks don't like whites, they are against us). Sometimes it's just the cultural gap. So, the skin colour is the last thing that disturbs us. Another thing is to get mixed. Some a repulsed by this idea, and I think rightfully so. Not only culturally it's a disaster for both sides, but especially for children, who are not white/europeneen/ocidental nor black/african. Every so called "american" who is black, is not just american - his grand-grand mother for sure was somewhere from Africa. Biologically it's also not perfectly ok, since the physiology is slightly different in races (different risks of different illness for whites and blacks for exmaple). And so on. I wouldn't want my child brings a fiancé from other race or worse lgbt. Now you with your "acceptance" are just hyporcites.
Why do you have to apply any type of questioning to figure out if it is wrong? If the movie was about people of another race who hated you because of the color of your skin, how much questioning would it take to determine that it was wrong?
It's extraordinary - if you take a bunch of children under 5 years old, with mixed race and skin-colour and put them in a room full of toys - within 20 minutes they'll all be playing together, squabbling, laughing, chasing and getting up to all sorts of mischief. We have to be TAUGHT to see people as different races and colours - racism is unnatural and our parents are to blame because that's where we get our values from!
"I'll do whatever it takes to protect our children"
*has black nanny/maid practically raise her children*
glitter bomb not practically.
i was thinking the same thing as soon as i heard the dumb bitch speak
@@deanking6105 So it's a fucking joke?
dean king what are u on about were all equal
glitter bomb exactly
They will let them cook and handle their food , raise and look after their children. But they don’t want to share the same toilet? So stupid.
Yeah, they just shouldn't bring africans to America in the first place.
@Dickum N Lickum the V: Emperor Of RUclips. I agree. But how are "white housholds" must suddenly integrate people, so different from them on so many levels? Why should they? I just explain why this reluctance exists towards other races.
Exactly!
@@annaheart7731 That's what the natives said to the Americans.
@@SCD4 Unfortunately for the natives newcomers were stronger.
The worst part is that this isn’t fictional people actually thought this. And not that long ago really.
And there's still quite a lot of people who still think like this even now
Brilliant Mind and it’s just idiots and ugly people who do
@@fav9754 and bunch of police, apparently
It's still happening to this day. Most whites haven't changed
@@itspaidangel641 Where ?
This movie is cute, but it makes it seem like racism in the 60s was just cattiness and rude comments. It was a lot uglier and more violent than this.
Jessica Smithey I agree with you, but despite that, there are worse films when it comes to minimizing the horrors of our past. I've seen Hairspray and hated it. I understand that it was meant for children also, but it reduced the suffering of coloured people at the time to, "I just think it's stupid that we can't dance together on tv."
Abileen actually talks about the violence they get as black (Abi son was killed by racist ) hayley also said to skeeter that they were Real racist in this town i think she meant kkk
There's the scene where she's on the bus and the KKK killed someone and she had to run home with them lurking about
@@elijahmikhail4566Hairspray was about a TV show, no shit they're talking about segregation on TV in that movie.
It was based off the novel, and from what I can remember from the novel, it didn't get much uglier than cattiness and rude comments.
I always liked Skeeter's character because she treated Aibileen as her equal. Not just a servant.
As did Celia ..I loved her relationship with Minnie
I love Celia, she’s so innocent and kind💕
yeah, that's actually the point of the movie
That One would you rather have her be a racist bitch like the rest of them?
That One plus I don’t see what’s wrong with her not being like other girls in that time period they were all awful women if anything you should be happy that she wasn’t like them.
This is when I knew Bryce Dallas Howard didn't get her roles through nepotism. She was sooo good. She truly convinced me!! I hated her in this movie. What a great actress!!!
Yes! Her performance in this is unbelievably good
What is "nepotism" ?
andres perez family preference in a work environment
She’s always played super nice girl roles. She really did method acting for this.
@@Kickballkixcereal she was Victoria ( the Bad one ) in twilight
I never understood "They carry different diseases than us."
Ok...but you're ok with us cooking your food, cleaning your house and raising your children. Our 'diseases' didn't bother you then.
Also: Even if that was true.
Wouldn't that mean, that you don't have to worry about it? Since it's a disease you can't get.
I don't understand their thinking, either! Oh, the flawed human brain!
@@tychoderkommentator2989 not necessarily true, in the case of fresh off the boat migrants in some cases you can be regionally susceptible to diseases the locals have an environmentally developed immunity to. Either way their thinking is illogical because these people have lived with them for generations
Dont you know transmissable diseases can only travel rectally
Exactly. And in the past (though I'd hesitate to guess until when) white people used black nursemaids. So.... No disease in breast milk. I would have liked to see Hilly reminded of that fact. It probably would've been another shit pie episode.
the funniest part is that I know for a fact that women like these still exist
Yep
Sure do
They’re called Karen
Nah
:( true
"i'll do whatever it takes to take care of our children" says the lady who doesnt even take care of her child
Ironically in the book the only nice thing said about Hilly is that she's a loving and attentive mother to her kids (she has a boy and a girl in the book) and its Aibileen who makes that observation about Hilly because she compares how Hilly and Elizabeth interact with their kids.
Such utter blindness.
You know, Hilly managed to get everyone to hate to the point where when she ACTUALLY ate shit, we loved it.....take a second to think about how great her acting must be to make everyone hate the character. THAT takes skill.
It's Hilly not Holly.
Bibiana Guadalupe Islas Herrera That’s what they just said..
danny bolton The original comment is edited which would mean they had "Holly" at first but later corrected it. Duh..
Bryce Dallas is actually sweet in real life. She hated that role and refuse to play characters like her again.
I like her because she is so irrational evil like Cruella de Vil 😑
The way she says, "Don't you want them to take their business outside?" is so unbelievably dehumanizing. That's the way you talk about a housepet, not a person. Just disgusting and heartbreaking.
😂
not even a pet - pets are loved.
@@agenttheater5😢 this comment
I take my dog outside to do its business. I couldn't imagine treating another human being like that.
The hypocrisy to be fine with them cooking your food and raising your children but then act like they are so dirty they belong outside like dogs. Tragic
Yeah, when she said it I said out loud "They're not dogs !"
The pure disdain I had for Hilly boiled my blood to the point where I've only been able to watch this movie once. A true testament of what a phenomenal actress Bryce Dallas Howard is.
same here.
Yes, but WHY was she so SHIT in Jurassic Park?! 😂😂
@@MrRickster83
Because the movie was shit
It's a film calm down
Hilly is a sociopath.
the ignorance and racism just floors me
@Kate Ellison Are you deadass?
@Kate Ellison seriously??
@Kate Ellison because racism and ignorance are BAD, so…..
Me too! The frailties of the human mind!
I love Skeeter's response. Basically saying- hey Hilly, you're the one with a problem sharing, maybe you should be the one who gets the worse situation.
Her response shows that she's a good person.
Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly.
I often use to wonder growing up why I didn't really hear the elders of the family talk much about the past. Movies like this reminds me who the hell wants to revisit being treated horribly. No wonder they don't talk about back in the day unless you ask them.
And now you know why, white people get so mad when it IS brought up. They don't want to revisit when their Elders treated Blacks (and other minorities) so horribly!
It's also why they always jump WAY back to Slavery.....they don't want to remind us of the BS their White Mothers and Fathers....put Black Mothers, Fathers and children through. They want you to think, it happened soooo long ago, it doesn't matter NOW......
My Father (a Veteran) was 21 when the Civil Rights Act passed......Forced to live Separate but Equal...... True there is no one alive that was ever a slave or remembers slavery but there are PLENTY of Whites and Blacks that are alive and remember what it was like in the 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!
Owen Cowan I do agree with you it’s just because who wants to relive the past? Especially if something like this happens
Owen Cowan happened*
Yep my grandparents never talk about what it was like growing up in the 40s and 50s. I don't blame them.
Owen Cowan i have literally never seen a black person mad when it’s brought up. you’re delusional
You can always tell by a reaction to a character as to how well it was acted. Bryce nailed it. She should have received an Oscar nod.
david snowden it’s both actors that make a scene work. But Bryce was phenomenal tho. And Emma too; they both should’ve gotten a nod
I agree. I thought oscar history might have been made. All 5 best supporting actress nominees would be from the help.
2 Gwen Staceys in the same room at the same time... epic
MangoLokito Emma was the better Gwen in my opinion
but Bryce was hotter
StarChyld4
Nah Emma looked and acted nothing like Gwen. she just sucks
Bryce was several months pregnant when she played Gwen.
🤯🤯
This scene pisses me off the
No
yes
Matheus G. S. I didn't post that.. My dude is white!!
Yes I did!! I'm referring to the way they treated her.
It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on!
Lol don't be misunderstood, people just hide these same sentiments in their head. Nothing has changed...
@@CaesarsLegion1 I hope you get robbed by one anyway.
Frosty You can burn in hell for your sins!!.
Frosty stfu you disgusting specimen
@@CaesarsLegion1 ugh, you're lame
You bet! If people could get away with this now, they would. So gross
Skeeters the only one who's polite enough to thank Abilene for pouring her drink. She's the only person in the room who respects her enough to acknowledge her outside of being demeaning from her.
No shit
@@andyandys5356 Hilly ate that too 😂
Notice how Skeeter’s the only one who thanked Aibileen for pouring her a drink.
My mother was from Corinth Mississippi. She grew up with a black "nurse maid" named Carlee. In 1968, I was 5 years old. My parents would take us to visit from Atlanta to my relatives in Corinth. I loved to see Carlee. She would hug and squeeze me harder than my mother. She was a portly woman and whenever she hugged me I remember I just sank in the cleft of her bosom. Sounds strange to remember such details I know. This movie takes me back to that time. I am glad things changed but I loved her so much.
"I'll do whatever it takes to protect my children" gave blacks the stereotype that they're lazy when they literally took care of their kids and cooked and cleaned.
Few things:
1. We see how Skeeter has grown from someone trying to steer the conversation (unsuccessfully) out of respect for Aibleen to later someone who tells Elizabeth off for mistreating her daughter.
2. That dress worn by their friend (Anna "Aca-cuse Me?" Camp) looks like the dress Peggy Olson wore to Easter Sunday.
3. Skeeter is the only woman not wearing pink at that table.
4. Hilly's too girly girl for her age look is made less ridiculous in this film adaptation.
In the book Skeeter does reflect on herself and her behaviour and squirms at the things she said I think its in one of Aibileen's stories where Skeeter says African-Americans pray too much and she's horrified by it. Also at first she's a little annoyed at Aibileen writing her stories because she thinks it'll take up more time with her rewriting them but she agrees and is surprised to learn Aibileen writes two hours or more a night which is more than she herself writes and she only needs to edit and correct the odd spelling mistake because Aibileen is actually a good writer. Very slowly Aibileen and Skeeter build trust and become friendly in fact Skeeter starts to prefer Aibileen over her friends because she knows how they really behave behind closed doors. It really shocks Skeeter how bad some of the maids experiences are. Skeeter really grows up and mature's throughout the book.
Be very careful. Always show respect when someone prepares your food or fixes you something to drink
Man oh man, Hilly’s mother was a hoot! A good person too for always calling out her daughter, and for always treating people equally.
Skeeter: Maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside Hilly.
- Slay it Skeeter! Slay it!
Hilly: You need not joke about the colored situation.
- Oh she's not. She's just saying that if you are for treating people like an animal that has to go outside to use the bathroom you deserve no better.
There aren't enough people like her in the world.
I really feel so sad for the black people back than. How much they went through, the pain and struggled, I can’t imagine. I’m so glad that in today’s age, everyone are treated equally. Bless you and everyone, take care and always respect one another!
Destynee Paradise it's still sad honestly, racism is still going on all around the world.
Destynee Paradise thank u but everyone is still not treated equally
Back then?
We are still not seen as equals hun We are still striving towards it
Gloria Kalunga I think society are more accepting and open-minded. Look at Meghan Markle, an American accepting into the British Royal, Barrack Obama was elected as US president, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson loved and admired by all around the world, I could name many more. MLK, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X etc fights for justice and equality, and that do help to make a difference.
Hilly makes my stomach hurt when she talks. Everything she says makes me gag.
I love how they're thinking its too dangerous to share bathrooms with black folks but theyre fine with black people cooking their food. 😂 guess that would require them to actually do work though so theyre not gonna try changing that
Just posted under another comment, it was their way to control. A realization I came to being an adult abused child. Those in power always want to control their victims. If they realize or admit it or not.
Can we just acknowledge Bryce Dallas Howard aka Hilly, she had one job to make us all hate her and she succeeded.Great actress /horrible character. 👏
I’m happy that mean woman ate crap, literally 😂
Oh god. The thought makes me gag.
At least Minnie gave her one of her special pies.🥧 +💩 =😂
I love the fact that when Skitter tells Abiline that the radio reminded her of Constantine, Abiline looks at her with an annoyed look and tell her "I know her, we were in church circle" meaning "yes I know her, and I know what you did to her" but when Skitter asks her if she's seen her lately, her face completely changes because she realises Skitter has no idea of what happened to her :(
Love that part where there’s a bunch of toilets on Hilly’s yard LOL
In the book its revealed that Skeeter did it because she was disgusted reading Hily's Home Help Sanitation Initiative which she out off printing in the news letter after Hilly demands Skeeter put it in she pays her maid Pascagoula's brothers to put the toilets in Hilly's front garden during the night ready for when Hilly returned the following day from a trip. It makes the front page news of the Jackson Journal but unfortunately it backfires on Skeeter because Hilly uses those toilets towards installing separate toilets for other people'd maids.
Hilly hated Cecila because she was jealous she had Johnny
And she felt she was from the trashy side of town... she was controlling who was the 'in' crowd
It’s so sad to think this is how people were actually treated back then. It breaks my heart.
Oh dear this kind of people still exist unfortunately
Elizabeth and Jolene (the other two friends playing bridge) represent most Americans. They recognize that something is bad, but refuse to do anything because it will "disrupt the natural order", and it's convenient and comfortable for them for things to stay just the way they are. It's only when we step out of the norm that true, positive change happens.
Thank you! I'm so glad someone pointed this out!
I love Skeeter when said we should build you a bathroom outside Hilly.
In a later scene she writes a newsletter that reads drop old toilets on hilly holbrook's front lawn next thing we see a lot of toliet's on hilly's frount lawn.
@@ashleysmith8402 the movie doesn't include it but in the book Skeeter pays her maid Pascagoula's brothers $25 each to put those toilets on Hilly's front garden during the night when she was away for the weekend
You know Bryce Dallas Howard is a good actress when you just hate her in the movies 😭
Though this movie is criticized because of its white savior trope I still like it. Besides, Skeeter wants to do what is right. She doesn't treat the maids as maids, she treats them as equals.
Imagine sitting and holding your pee for hours at a time by choice and somehow thinking you are the most rational person in the room
As a black person myself (as you can obviously tell fro my cringe profile pic) I don’t take this kind of stuff seriously. People can change overtime, and people who are like this are from a different generation, and I don’t blame them. They were taught this was the right way of thinking. They didn’t know anything else. Besides, most of the stereotypes are pretty ridiculous, anyway, and I like to laugh at myself.
so what if they was taught this way of thinking ..
even an idiot could figure out treating people like this is wrong
they knew what they was doing and did it with pure malicious intent
@@saitamabaldy2566 people can never accept the horrors of the past for what it was.
You are rational. In my classroom where I was the only chinese kid in that class, we were studying Australian history, part of it was learning about how the government was teying to enforce "white Australia" with slogans like "Two Wongs don't make a white". I laughed out loud. No one did. Funny thing, I was bullied a lot back then and my bullies who'd put me down out loud were also mysteriously silent about this. It's just a slogan of the past and it's a cute English pun. I enjoyed it.
I pesonally don't believe they were 100% naive in the past, but I do agree with your thinking and sentiments about this movie.
Skeeter had a kind heart for Aibileen. You can tell by Skeeter’s face on 1:28 and on 1:37.
I'm a maid in south Africa working for Indians and this is still happening,we are not allowed to use their bathrooms or their cups and plates 😓
That is seriously messed up I hate racisim
WHAT?? No...Whites are the only ones that are racist 😂
@2019 Slow stang who’s they
I have been looking for this movie ever since I seen it in middle school. My history teacher held back nothing from us, and I love her for it.
Bryce Dallas Howard should have had more attention for this film. She was so great as Hilly. I hated the character but loved the acting so much.
This is our RECENT past, not distant.
My grandma turns 101 next month, constantly tells us to be on the lookout for rising fascism. That not long ago she was exiled for inviting her black loved ones to her home.
I love their southern accents😂
I'm from Mississippi born and raised so I know what u mean lol😂
Im white and when I was a caregiver, many treated me that way. Right down to using a seperate bathroom. Could NOT use the driveway. Was asked to do jobs that were forbidden by contract...such as washing floors on my hands and knees.
So many Karens in one room!
I respect Skeeter for apologizing to Aibileen on behalf of these c words
Celia Foote was my favorite character along with Skeeter !
I simply do feel bad for black people in that era. Glad that's over, love you black and beautiful people : )
M Kay it’s not that over but thanks for supporting us.
After this movie, Emma stone is always MS. Skeeter to me. Amazing performance Ms. Skeeter!
It’s crazy to think shit like this was happening 50-60 years ago
The blonde has a historical “Karen Cut!”
Bryce Dallas Howard should've been nominated for an Oscar for this movie.
“They carry different diseases...”
This part of the movie mentions about Blacks carrying diseases and spreading them to White people.
It's just such a shame that even until now there are people who think non-White people carry and spread diseases that White people don't. A prejudicial mentality that continued from the 19th century and in this movie's case even up to the 1960's. It just reminds me that these days there are people blame all the Chinese for spreading the virus, and that has especially led to anti-Asian violence in America, even attacking people who aren't infected. People need to realise diseases and in fact viruses are non-discriminatory: they've affected people from all backgrounds.
This is still happening in many countries around the world where there are household staff.
It mostly happens in arab nations now, like Saudi Arabia and Dubai...its also pretty much slavery often and they take peoples passports away sometimes. This is not a white/black issue....its a global human issue.
Skeeter is the only one who said thank you when Abilene filled up their drinks
I really liked Hilly's hair coloring, clothes and her house. I also really liked Skeeters' car.
I love their accents and the way they say abeline 😂
have you ever heard of a disease spread through different butts touching a toilet seat?
I'm white and southern, and I couldn't stand the foul Hilly. I can't imagine the disgust the black community feels towards her.
Alice Graham and as a black woman the black community is still feeling disgusted because we’re fighting racism right now after all the years it’s a shame smh.
_The book & this movie were so sad. How can living like this not drive someone crazy. I’m so glad I wasn’t born in that era. Viola Davis character was so strong 💪 & had a good heart ❤️ despite it all. It’s crazy how those white women were raised & taken care of by black women. Only to grow up and hate them and do them wrong._
The self-indulgence and self-righteousness of Skeeter is beyond hilarious.
I just Can Not believe a time like that and even worse, Existed!
Watching this in 2019 I just want to rip through the screen and yell at them that it’s not the 1900s anymore and that Abilene is a human too.
how can you even ask someone something without saying please even if it’s their job? My biggest pet peeve is impoliteness like how can you as a human feel like you are above other humans who are the same as you?
Kaya Lauren
Well said!
Stokedhavok thank you!
Kaya Lauren
You’re welcome, my Friend! 😃
I even say thank you at the check out when I shop for groceries when I'm paying 😑 It costs nothing to be nice.
Paul Lannister
Right! It costs nothing to be kind, so why not do it?
Can I just ask, what film is this?
A bathroom outside for hilly I would support That! Nicely said sketter !
I work for a very important hotel chain in Cancún. I am a concierge. One day a lady (white) asked me for the shows schedule I told her where to pick a sheet with the information she put a face like 🙄 I told her I will get one for her (as part of the service we offer at the property) when I went back to her With the sheet she told me “ did you where to america for the sheet or what?” And started laughing at me, It really pissed me off and I take the sheet of her hand and I told her to get it by herself... And I told her “By the way study geography you still in America”. Hahhahahaa I wish I had taken a picture of her face and make a meme. 🤣
This makes me sick.
Which movie scene is this?
Racism is everywhere it will never stop we maybe different in race but we all bleed the same damn color : red
"maybe we should just build you a bathroom outside, Hilly".
This makes me think of the trans bathroom bills
Horrible people and horrible mothers.
I love this movie.
One of my absolute favorites.
However, the "white savior" narrative that continues to be pushed out in these type of movies, really needs to start taking a back seat in the story lines.
Don't get me wrong, i understand why many white people feel the need to add that into the movies.
Black people suffered so much at our hands & even tho generations have passed, any one with a heart cannot help but feel the sting of guilt & regret. Feel the need to show redemption. There's better ways we can do that.
I do believe that in the beginning, the white people stepping in for the black people was meant to be a way of showing how sorry we are.
However, it's now become distorted, seen as the white people saved the bkack.
I won't deny that white people played a role in the Underground Rail Road.
That white & black people faught together in the Civil war... but that doesn't make us white saviors .
More movies need to be made about black people like Harriet Tubman, Malcom X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, & so many more... who risked their lives - some even gave their lives - in pursuit of happiness & equality for us all.
Harriet Tubman & MLK... there should be way more recognition about the remarkable things they did. Replace some of the white men on US money & put the faces of some of the brave black men & women who not only survived the darkest times this nation has seen, but rose above it all & made the kind of difference most people dream of making.
It baffles me that this has yet to take place.
Id love to see a director make a big budget film like this one, & let the black people be the heros completely, while the racist white people are left to deal with the vile, evil, & wickedness they inflicted on their fellow human beings.
The ending doesn't need to be happy for both sides every time.
I love the fashion in this so much not hilly though she literally just makes my blood boil. I love the actress though she plays the part so well.
"Wouldn't you rather them take their business outside?" Like we're damn animals or something. This movie is BRUTAL.
This is the era when karens are born...
hahahhhhaa period
This is a brilliant movie but some of the scenes, such as this one, are just so difficult to watch. It’s horrible.
Do whatever you need to "protect" your children but YET! they take care of your children!🤨
Thank god the north won the war 💕 R.I.P. to all of those who died in that war fighting for an amazing cause
@Peachesxo Many continually point fingers at the South for perceived "racism" because it allows them to ignore the real racism around them. Met a black Arab from Libya, who with his wife, came to the U.S. as a refugee. Settled in Los Angeles County; no neighbors would speak to him, and he was constantly stopped by the Police and Sheriff Dept; resettled to town just South of Chicago, and exact same thing happened continuously. Moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, (Northeast of Knoxville) with his now pregnant wife. Surprised when everyone was smiling saying "Hello and Good Morning" and were friendly toward him and wife. Baby arrived and all the neighbors were leaving baby gifts outside their door and bringing food over. He told me he was NEVER leaving Tennessee. My waitress at a truck stop near Greenville, SC was a very sweet young black lady. I could tell by her accent she was not from SC. She told me she grew up in Brooklyn, NY and a few years earlier had visited a friend in SC, and came ready to tackle the "Redneck Southern Racists". Instead, she fell in love with SC and moved there permanently "because everyone was so much nicer than in Brooklyn". This is exactly why people like to point at the South as "racist".
63DW89A I don’t have time for your little story time. Go make a book 📖
@@countrygirlxo7188 That speaks volumes. Confirmation of the truth.
63DW89A sure sure. If the north didn’t win moron there still would of been slavery. Lol how stupid are you. No matter where you go you can find a racist. But if the north didn’t stand up against slavery then the south would of kept slaves. You sound absolutely ridiculous
I think it’s telling that skeeter is the only one to say thank you as Abilene poured her more to drink.
I like skeeters Minnies's and celia's and Constantine"s characters
2:44 She's sooo soo beautiful when she smiles , its so heartwarming :)
3:53 is nicer
Elizabeth should’ve been friends with Celia because Celia wanted to be friends with Elizabeth but Elizabeth was friends with Hilly aka Queen B of The Help and Hilly was stopping Elizabeth from being friends with Celia because she had a poor background and married Johnny. Skeeter told Hilly that might be you, so I’m guessing that Skeeter was fine with Celia joining their social circle but Hilly was 100% no with Celia joining. No wonder Skeeter realised how mean Hilly was to Celia and Aibileen and Minnie and a lot of people so she ditched Hilly, which is what Hilly deserved. In fact, Hilly deserves no friends and she deserves to be hated by the whole town
I love the 50s but my God. How frigging awful. 😢 It's the one part of the 50s that I am speechless about. 💔
Regardless of what color our skin is we all bleed the same shade of red.
It makes me sick to my stomach how people like this existed and still exist today.
Lol no wonder Johnny chose Celia over Hilly
I’m white and every time i see scenes like this (knowing the treatment of poc were a lot worse than this) where poc are treated like dirt gets me so infuriated. It breaks my heart to know at some point we didn’t accept them. And that some people don’t now. It’s something I’m ashamed of even though I’m not racist. I just want to apologize to everyone victimized.
Racism it doesn't actually make sense when you apply the slightest bit of questioning.
@Zach Kabia why does the color of someone skin mean they're lesser than me?
What the hell is the point of being so against each other.
@@Starmadien2019 It's not always being against blacks (not each other, because blacks don't like whites, they are against us). Sometimes it's just the cultural gap. So, the skin colour is the last thing that disturbs us. Another thing is to get mixed. Some a repulsed by this idea, and I think rightfully so. Not only culturally it's a disaster for both sides, but especially for children, who are not white/europeneen/ocidental nor black/african. Every so called "american" who is black, is not just american - his grand-grand mother for sure was somewhere from Africa. Biologically it's also not perfectly ok, since the physiology is slightly different in races (different risks of different illness for whites and blacks for exmaple). And so on.
I wouldn't want my child brings a fiancé from other race or worse lgbt.
Now you with your "acceptance" are just hyporcites.
Why do you have to apply any type of questioning to figure out if it is wrong? If the movie was about people of another race who hated you because of the color of your skin, how much questioning would it take to determine that it was wrong?
I wish I had lived in that era. The women are so feminine and sweet.
Riiiiiiiight?
@@Clintsessentials do you not agree?
@@chesterdonnelly1212 totally agree
@@chesterdonnelly1212 I believe women and men should be sweet to each other!
@@Clintsessentials yes I agree with that.
Bryce Dallas Howard did such a good job in this movie.
It's extraordinary - if you take a bunch of children under 5 years old, with mixed race and skin-colour and put them in a room full of toys - within 20 minutes they'll all be playing together, squabbling, laughing, chasing and getting up to all sorts of mischief. We have to be TAUGHT to see people as different races and colours - racism is unnatural and our parents are to blame because that's where we get our values from!
Don't you think people of Texas are still like this?
Is it just me, or are Karens also more likely to hold racist views?
Crazy to believe this movie is based in 2012....
Its not based in 2012..its based in the 50s/60s. You mean it was made in 2012.
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