In 2011, director Tate Taylor published his historical drama "Help", a story that focuses on black maids working and living with white families in the American South in the 1960s and trying to focus on maids, not on Their (often fraud and control) employers. Based on a novel with the same name from Catherine Stockquet, The movie stars Viola Davis as Aibilain Clark, Octavia Spencer as Mini Acksexon and Emma Stone as Eugenia "Scatar" Fellan, an aspiring writer, who carries himself to put together the stories of black maids, including mines and Aibilain, to tell the truth about how "help" Especially in Acksecson, Mississippi. Aibileen Works for Skeeter's Friend Elizabeth Leeholt (Ahna O'rilly), A Neglectful Mother to Her Young Daughter (Upon Whom Aibileen Dotes), While Minny Works For the Odoud and Cruel Hilly Hilly Hilly. Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Her Mother (Played by Sissy Spacek). Following the incident involving a bath and an unforgettable "apology pie", Mini ends up working for Selia Fute (Essica Chastain), a lonely and rich new Acksecson accessory that finds a confidential in the mini.

To be perfect, while Taylor and Stockquet's mission here is admirable, the film still centers the heroine, especially when her book, also titled "Help", makes waves in Acksecson revealing some of the cruelty that turned out to be The maids of their employers (though not named, it is easy enough to find out who is based on context clues, sending women like Elizabeth and Hilly in A. Well, is it "aid" based on true stories of domestic black workers during the civil rights movement? Yes and no.

Catherine's novel "Help" was published in 2009, and during the awards, Stockquet included a woman named Demetry Miclon, who, according to Stockquet's own works, "wore us all outside the hospital wrapped in our baby blankets and Her life wasted us, raising us, loving us, and, thank God, forgiving us. " Namely, the recognitions are followed immediately by a personal essay entitled "Too Little, too late" explaining that McLarn was a maid of the Stockquet family and that Stockket was inspired by her experiences with McLarn. "I am pretty sure that I can say that no one in my family has ever asked Demetri how it felt (black) in Mississippi, to work for our white family," Stokquet writes. "We never asked us. It was a daily life. It was not something that people felt forced to examine. I wished, for many years, that it would be old enough and careful enough to ask that question of Demetry. She. He died when I was sixteen.

So the truth is that "help" is Type of Based on a true story in that stoket, which was born in the late 1960s, she grew up with a black domestic worker in her family home. Stockquet, of course, over the years, has been criticized for the fact that she is spending the book telling black stories from a white perspective, including the use of a phonetic written dialect - and in an interview with 2011 The GuardianStockquet was asked by Elizabeth Day whether she hesitated about dialect. Obviously, McLarn also inspired that aspect of the book.

"It was not difficult for me to get that musicality on the site because I started writing the voice of Demetry and it sounded exactly as I wrote it. Later, that voice became the character of Aibilein, "Stockquet said, although she had some wrong things. "At the same time, I was killed that I was doing something I learned not to do, which I had to address the race, to emphasize the things that separated us. I still think I'm "I'm faced with problems.

Despite the perfectly understandable wrong things people can have for "help", there is no denial that film is a huge success when it hit theaters in the summer of 2011. Not only did he make a stunning $ 221 million in cash -based outside the budget of just $ 25 million, but she finished nominated for more academy awards, including the best picture, Best Viola Davis Actress (who lost to Meryl Streep for the "Theelean Lady")And Two Nominations in the category of support for Essesica Hastain and Octavia Spencer. After all, Spencer took his first Oscar to play Mini Acksexon (despite the wrong steps of the film, its performance is really spectacular), but it is interesting to note that both Davis, Hastain and Emma Stone continued to win the Oscars in the coming years for their performances in "Eleens", "The eyes of Tami Jay" and "La La Land", respectively.

"Help" has also earned solid reviews from critics, sitting pretty much with 76% of rotten tomatoes with a critical consensus saying: "Although she is probably guilty of shine over her racial topics, the help rises to her team - especially Viola Davis Davis. Davis, whose play is powerful enough to wear the film on its own. " Even the slanderers of "help" must admit that Davis, Spencer, Hastain, Stone and Brice Dallas Howard, who make up the main team, all deliver the performance of the plant that complement each other ... Although, in subsequent films, Davis, Davis admitted that she was actually sorry for playing Aibilein.

In September 2018, Viola Davis sat down with Mecado Murphy of Theujork Times So Murphy could ask the questions submitted to Davis Reader-and when such a reader asked Davis if he had never said the roles and later regrets, Davis grew up "help" without any need. "The almost better question is, have I ever made roles that I was sorry? I have "help" on that list, "Davis replied openly and honestly. However, Davis clarified that she wanted to work with her co-stars-raised-raising actresses "Emergency Human Beings" with whom she built strong friendships-and praised Tate Taylor. So Why Did he regret playing Aibilein Clark?

"I just felt that at the end of the day that the votes of the maids were not heard," Davis concluded. "I know Aibilain. I know the mini. Year, I want to hear how you really feel about it.

A few years later, Davis still felt the same way. Talking to Vanity fair In July 2020 But there is one part of me that feels like I betrayed, and my people, because I was in a movie that was not ready to (tell the whole truth). "

"Help" is available for rent or stream of larger platforms now.