Review of The Help (2011) by Gavin M — 04 Dec 2014

Great movie! I didn't expect to end the way it did, but in a way even though it ended on a bad note it really didn't when you think about it. Viola Davis (Who is amazing in this movie) finally gets to do what she wants to do at the end of the movie.

Because if you remember as she is being interviewed by Emma Stone (Who also does a pretty good job herself in this movie) in the beginning of the movie when she asks Viola Davis if she ever dreamed about doing anything else besides being a house maid and she nods her head yes at Emma Stone, you quickly remember at the very end of the movie as she is walking down the road after being fired from Bryce Dallas Howard (Who is a real bitch in this movie) and she has to say goodbye to one of the other girl's daughter that she had been taking care of and walks down the road she says that was last baby she would ever care as now she believes after releasing the book that she helped Emma Stone write along with many other house maids about the cruelty that southern people in Jackson, Mississippi are to there house maids, including getting the help of one of her friends who is also a house maid played by a really great and funny Octavia Spencer.

Who literally chews up every scene she is in, especially a scene involving her and Bryce Dallas Howard after she reveals to Viola Davis and Emma Stone as Stone is writing her book that she literally after being fired from Bryce Dallas Howard for using the guest bathroom, she then returns the next day with a pie, but it's not just any normal pie as she reveals to both Davis and Stone that she put her own shit in the pie and Bruce Dallas Howard had two big scoops of it.

It is a priceless scene, especially when Spencer reveals to Dallas Howard what she did to make the pie so tasty. It's great. Especially when she says it right in front of Sissy Spacek who plays Dallas Howard's elderly mother and Spacek cracks up laughing at Dallas Howard once told is really in the pie.

Spacek replies back "And you had two big scoops of it!" Great scene. But really as much as I love the whole cast in this movie, the one to really surprise me with her performance as much as her presence in the movie is Jessica Chastain.

Who has a southern Marilyn Monroe quality to her in the film that just makes you fall in love her automatically. Chastain is the one who hires Spencer after she is fired from Dallas Howard for the whole shit pie incident, but really needs her assistance in learning how to cook because she is helpless at it.

But she tells Spencer that she needs to come a few minutes after nine and leave before four, for fear of her husband finding out that she has hired a black maid to help her cook for her and her husband in the movie.

Chastain also has some secrets about herself that she reveals to Spencer later after a terrible incident happens to Chastain in her bathroom. Jessica Chastain has such a beautiful quality to her that it's just so sexy to see how hot and well talented as an actress she is.

I truly believe that she the best young actress in Hollywood right now as she does even after seeing her in "The Tree of Life" which was such a luminous performance by her that this role really makes her shine and it's one to not be forgotten.

Even Allison Janney was great to watch as she brings in a very well performance as well as does everybody in the movie. They all bring their A game to this movie and that is why this is a must see and should not be ignored.

Director Tate Taylor has really crafted something wonderful with this movie as this is one of the best films of 2011. The movie has great soundtrack moments too which I feel is lacking today in movies as for me, the best movies are the ones with awesome soundtracks and this one definitely fits into that category.

"The Help" is a very compelling, emotional and very deep and at times funny movie about black house maids in Mississippi and one thing for sure about this movie...it hits you right in the heart.