Liveblogging The Help

In a striking development, one of our thematic leisure activities at this past social action workshop was a viewing of The Help. Because everybody fucking loves a honky, right?

I decided to watch it while given the opportunity for free, even though I well remembered the reviews when it came out, which I read a fair amount about. I thought it would help to have an informed opinion with specific examples available if I had the opportunity to explain what We Need a Honky was later on.

My phone ran out of batteries at the beginning of the movie though, so I ended up liveblogging my reactions on paper...

( The Help )

As we were walking out after the movie our teacher asked me if I'd seen The Help before.

I said, "No, but I know about it. I read about it when it came out, because, well, there was a lot of... discussion... because it has a, well, a We Need a Honky... thing. That is, there are all these black people who have really serious problems, that they're also working at, but they can't solve their problems on their own until this sort of magical white character comes and helps them."

"Wellllll, yeah, but it was still a really touching movie!" said my teacher.

Um.