The Help Reflection

Being able to compare how society has progressed just in sixty years is a breathtaking moment, sometimes you need to take a step back to absorb it and place things into perspective. The movie I have chosen to watch on the Xfinity app was The Help. It is a movie about the daily life and obstacles that black women must face and how their lives are impacted on by white people’s culture. This movie was insightful to me and everyone else that has ever watched it. The movie portrays what life was like right before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his speech “I have a dream speech” in 1963. This movie is greatly appreciated, educational, and informative. It had provided me with a visual of how different life was around fifty-four years ago. The Help showed me how females treated each other back in the day, allowing me to compare it to how females treated each other today. I would like to start off with the educational values of this movie. This movie is a controversial topic that people do not like to talk about often. It is the elephant in the room in any history class, at least for me, no one talks about the wrong things Americans have done to others in this world. School tells us about the segregation, but they do not mention the real stories or things white people bombarded colored people …show more content…
The Help is one of those movies that will forever be a classic. It is a brutally honest movie that represents the truth of past. I think that it is for the best, it educates young people, filling in the holes from history books. The Help, was beautifully directed by Tate Taylor, is an informative movie that shows history more than fifty-five years ago and allows you to compare the current society to the society no one likes to talk about. A society lost forgot but a society that was once part of everyday