THE HELP - tate taylor - 3.2 / 10

When you get right down to it, The Help is a film about exploited people made by their exploiters for the enjoyment of the exploiters.  It makes a lot of noise about glorifying the struggle of the black Southern maids whom a third of the story revolves around, but by the end of the movie, all that’s left is the realization that the main white character used the lives and experiences of the black characters to learn something new about herself, grow as a person and move on to bigger and better things, the consequences for those she’s exploited be damned.