While the Deep South may be known for its revolutionary racial issues, the plots of some films may have even larger and more relevant social issues. “You are smart, you are kind, you are important. »This quote is taken directly from director Tate Taylor's film The Help, customized from the novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett. The Help follows a wealthy, white, young woman, Skeeter (played by Emma Stone) and the relationships and relationships she shares with several African-American domestic workers or "babysitters" (played by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer). . The courageous and tenacious Skeeter is different, so she works hard on a book that will blow away the veil on the suffering endured by black maids. Skeeter interviews housekeepers about their experiences working as "helpers" in the racially charged 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the film aims to inform viewers who had given little or no thought to the difficulties faced by the South's racially subjugated African American population during that era. been specifically marketed as a progressive success story against racial injustice, although I believe it more clearly embodies the racial "white savior" genre that Hollywood vigorously reinforces with films like Grand Torino, The Blind Side, Blood Diamond, Avatar, Freedom Writers and even the hit musical Hairspray. These films show how a white person becomes an important part of the life of a minority, who usually lives in poverty or in a period of depression. It is more than likely that the white character is portrayed as having a better life than the minority character. Many critics have placed The Help in the category...... middle of paper ...... the world has unfolded and developed into a beautifully egalitarian country. In an article by Liepollo Pheko just published this month in 2012, he also compares how "South Africans" perceive the film. There's generally that familiarity and remembrance in some of the issues the film raises, even if the film doesn't address them inadequately. In an incisive commentary on social conditions, a white protagonist declares: “We are separate but equal,” an ideology familiar to most South Africans and repugnant to the more enlightened among us. Ultimately, from an academic standpoint and just from a regular viewer's perspective, the help was a basic timeline of the state of southern Missippi. On the other hand, the South as a whole has developed but tends to forget why it is important to have films like these for us to watch and remember how different life was in the South at the time..