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The Help (2011)
Extremely emotional heartwarming movie
The help is a film full of emotion, and hope, telling the story of the black housemaids in southern Mississippi and their relationships with their white employers. A college graduate of Ole Miss, aspiring journalist and society woman of Mississippi, Skeeter Phalen, goes to work on a piece that evolves into a sort of exposé on the help and their relationships and feelings toward their white counterparts. Throughout the movie you are taken on a journey of highs, and lows, that is very emotion evoking. Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson are the two main maids that Skeeter gets her information and stories from, however once they start talking, many more women tell their stories as well. There is a background element of the secret that Skeeters mother is keeping about the mysterious disappearance of Skeeter's family's own housemaid which is just another one of many elements that keep you wrapped around the story and wanting more. The whole story serves as a kind of hopeful element of this time, among the tragedy that is touched on throughout the movie, it doesn't seem to focus so much highlighting the very terrible ways that whites treated their black slaves in this time, but rather on the fact that through the use of Skeete and her sympathy and interest toward the help that not all white people were terrible people back then, which serves as the element of hope for society throughout the movie. Overall I was very impressed with this film and would definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested in historical happenings of this nature, or are just in the mood for a heartwarming story.
Killing Lincoln (2013)
Pretty good movie, educational
I think that this is a good movie. As for myself not being a huge documentary fan, that aspect of he film wasn't so much to my liking. I wish it had been more of a movie with a plot and storyline, without all of the narrating. However for the purpose that I was to watch it (a history class assignment) I learned a lot through it, and despite my negative feelings toward he narration, Tom Hanks does a wonderful job setting the viewer up and giving them a sufficient amount of background knowledge to be able to understand the happenings of the movie. Also at some points throughout the movie, the way that certain scenes were filmed seemed a bit shaken almost, unprofessional-like. Now whether that was done on purpose or not, I was not very pleased with that. I did like the way that before a new event began in the movie, or a new scene, the time, place and date were shown. Again providing the viewer with background information so they don't get too lost in following the story. As for the story itself, the story of the assassination of President Lincoln, in my opinion, was told very well through this movie. I liked the way that it seemed to take an objective approach and just told the story how it happened, without seeming to really advocate for either side more than the other. It was very informative and I thought that the casting was done well too. John Wilkes Booth's character especially fit, I think, because he just seems creepy the whole way through the movie, with his mustache and the journal entries he writes of his self justification for the terrible thing he has done. All in all I think that this movie was a good movie, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the story of Lincoln's assassination or who particularly enjoy historical documentaries.