PJ and I recently saw The Help, starring Viola Davis and Emma Stone as a black maid in the 1960s South and the white woman who helps her tell her story of racial prejudice and outrage. Here’s the trailer:

I really enjoyed this movie a lot. It’s definitely a crowd-pleaser, and I thought it was much more sophisticated than some of the stories I’d read about it seemed to suggest. In particular, this movie is not about a woman who saves the helpless black people. Not to give too much away, but a) she doesn’t save anyone — they save her, and b) the maids are definitely not saved at the end of the tale.

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