The Help.

Moral of the story: even if you use a separate toilet, you can still spread germs if you don't wash your hands after doing your business.

Okay, so I thought it was a really good movie though I think some things were a little off with it. I haven't read the book so i offer no critique of it. While I was trying to share my critique with some friends who had seen the movie with me, they brushed it off saying they dealt with that more fully in the book and the book was better and ect. Maybe they are right; however, I am skeptical that the book handled some of the sensitive material differently enough from the movie to make much a difference. Please keep in mind that the flaws I saw in the movie I read about in a review before I saw it. So whether or not I actually saw the flaws because they exist or saw them because I read about them and then sought them out in impossible to discern.

While I fully understand and appreciate that servants literally raised the children while their parents neglected them, I feel like the love a servant may have felt for their charge was romanticized too much. For instance, they did not very much discuss the resentment a mother could only feel for having to leave her own children in order to care for someone else's child. Also portrayed too softly was the love a servant felt for a family.How could a servant love a family so much that treated them as though they were not worth as much as human being?

The other critique that I both read about and saw was that there were too many stock characters in the film. That the key servants fit stereotypical roles that did not capture the complexity of a African American servant.

i wish the movie had come out last semester because it would have been perfect for the discussion in the paper I wrote for my Rhetoric on Human Rights class final. The paper was about how there was a genocide of African Americans in the southern united states that was sponsored by the government. Not many people like to think about the Americans being guilty of a genocide.

Oh and I also think the violence wasn't portrayed correctly or as violently as it actually was dspite the amount of violence that was in the film. But I understand why they did that: more violence would have upped the rating making it less available to larger audiences and the story wasn't about violence...more may have not fit in very well.