When I was little (I’m in my 60s) my mom and all her friends here had a maid. This movie is spot on. Her name was Tommie. She worked for my mother and two of my mom’s friends. This is St. Louis, hundreds of miles north of Mississippi. The segregation and racism here was just as bad as it was in Mississippi even though most white ppl my age here deny it. It was a status thing back then. White women here hired black maids just to say that they had a maid. But I very well remember conversations where it was stressed that the sterling silverware should be hidden so it couldn’t be stolen. I also remember conversations about bathrooms but I was too little to grasp the meaning. This movie is so spot on. My mother was good to Mrs. Goode (our maid, Tommie) and they seemed to like each other, but I remember asking my mom if we could go to Tommie’s house sometime. We were allowed in the car if Mom took Tommie home but we never went into her house. The whole idea of there being a white section of town and a black section was very real and it was awful. We loved Tommie but we could not go to her house. That look on Skeeter’s face the first time she visited Aibileen in Aibileen’s house is very real. Even when working at my mom’s friend’s house, Tommie could use the bathroom downstairs in the basement that was “hers” but she could not use the other bathrooms. And this was in the 1960s. My mom broke the mold eventually after Dr. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders became prominent. But her two friends did not. One of my mom’s friends was Hilly Holbrook to a tee.

I think this is one of the best movies of this decade.

I hope Viola Davis gets a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in this film.

i loved this movie before i even watched it...i've watched it over 8times and i cry every time....after hearin octavia speak like minnie, it sounds strange hearin her real accent lol...i love u abeleeennnnnnnnnnn

probably the best acting I've seen in a while

SMART EDUCATED BLACK WOMEN DOING THERE THING!

I visited my dad in 1968 in Albany Georgia. He was a cop. I was raised in Calif and was so young and busy raising my kids i wasnt aware of the terrible lives the black citizens had. , i saw my dads maid cleaning house. I said hi and asked her what her name was. She said Daisy. I told her that was a pretty name and that my name,Carolyn, was boring. I told her i hoped my dad paid her well, because that was hard work. ...now that i know how black citizens were treated , especially in the south, i wondered what she thought of me talking my head off to her.

Those ladies brought it!! That story needed to be told and growing up in lower Alabama during the 1960s was so unfair, shameful for the black folks:( I could write my own book about the horror I witnessed. Oddly, as a child, I learned more about love and faith from them than I ever did going to any white church!

Let's 😢 LOV3 EACH OTHER AND STOP HATING ✋️ EACH OTHER 😢 WE ALL BLOOD RED

Octavia is an intelligent woman.

What beautiful women. Love this movie and love hearing them tie in their own life experiences with the movie

This was a brilliant interview 👏

Viola Davis sounds like Oprah Winfrey....voice wise.

I think if that's what you got from the film, you misunderstood the point of the book and film. Nobody said that White people should feel guilty, this is history, it is what happened in the 60s and what people went through and still go through. It is life. I think you need to educate yourself.

Octavia look gorgeous 😍 ✨ ❤ 💕 💖 💗

There are so few documents, books or movies, etc that look at history from the perspective of women like these characters in the movie and real life people who these characters mirror. This stuff actually happened, especially in the south. Black women lived this life. They were degraded and humiliated regularly. It was sad. The remnants of slavery has lasted for decades.

Haven't seen the actual film, this is my first time hearing Octavia Spencer properly speaking, I've only seen her in very minor supporting roles, usually "sassing" someone. Only just now noticed how pretty she is.

I linked to this from Internet Movie Database's "The Help" entry, discussion board: VERY heated topic..

Also, in the book they work in seperate houses....

You know Bryce Dallas Howard has to be a brilliant actress to be able to portray a character that is so hateful.

what are you talking about? she was trying to get the actors, who she was interviewing in the first place, to speak about how they felt during the filming of the movie. she was trying to have them explain it rather than fill in the blanks her self. her job isnt to fill in the blanks her self.

the best movie ever you is kind, you is smart, u is important

why do they have the same necklace?

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@vonsmitty1313 ALWAYS be proud of who you are, all white people are not evil just as all blacks, mexicans, etc... aren't evil either. #food for thought;-)

the perspective of the strong women who did all the work, clueless caucasian, thats who, but then u wouldnt understand you never dd an honest days work in your life, you been pampered.

When I was younger, people mistreated me because of my white skin color. It made me hate myself and I feared African Americans because everywhere I went, they’d taunt and ridicule me. “No, you can’t pet my dog.” (But my darker skinned sister was allowed to. And when my light skinned mother asked why, she was ignored... like trash.) In elementary school. Standing there, minding my own business, looking at the ground, in the school hallway when I briefly looked up, Some African American kid who would bully me: “What are you lookin’ at, whhhide girl?” (White girl, said like I was the lowest thing on Earth. Or someone who’d done him wrong. Spoiler: I never had.) I never mistreated any of those who bullied me. Not before, not after. I never deserved it. I was a shy girl with undiagnosed autism who kept to herself and liked books. But then, I started going to good schools and moved to a good neighborhood. I made friends, and I began trusting again, with all races and religions and nobody mocked me for my skin color. Not all people are bad. Now I’m not afraid of being the color that I am. It’s how I was born and I wouldn’t want to change it.

it’s been 12 years but the jouranlist was trying too hard to stir the pot and be controversial about an amazing movie. who else were they gonna play as african american ladies, white women?! get real lady

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