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The Help Tate Taylor Analysis

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Written and directed by Tate Taylor, “The help” is a spectacular movie about the treatment encountered by the maids that work for white families in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights era. Emma Stone (Skeeter) plays a nonracist journalist that just graduated and is looking for a story and finds a publisher in New York to help end the injustices of black people. Viola Davis plays Aibileen, the strong willed maid who is recovering from the loss of her son and feels (from being told all her life) invisible. Minnie Jackson (Octavia Spencer,) who plays the maid that is outspoken and refuses to be invisible. The maids deal with segregation and mistreatment of the Jim Crow rules and regulations of the time. It includes the
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